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Article by Erin Miller, The Gazette Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to meet with our U.S. Senator from Iowa to discuss medical cannabis. Sen. Grassley was receptive to hearing about how my 4-year-old son Abram, who suffers from an extremely rare genetic mutation that causes seizures, has been able to find relief from cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive cannabis ...

Article by Clear Choice Cannabis No doubt, you’ve heard of Kilimanjaro or OG Kush, but did you know they are considered Landrace strains? Have you ever wondered what exactly a Landrace strain is, where they came from, and why they are so rare? Man’s kinship with cannabis is documented as far back as 2900 B.C. In biblical days, cannabis grew ...

Article by Will Yakowicz, Inc. At 7:37 a.m. on January 28, 2016, nearly 30 officers from the San Diego joint narcotics task force conducted a raid on Med-West Distributors, a licensed medical cannabisextraction company. The officers, decked out in helmets and tactical gear and clutching assault rifles and handguns, used a sledgehammer to open the door, and then burst into the lobby. ...

Article by Mark K. Matthews, The Denver Post This isn’t your teenage son’s marijuana industry anymore; it’s your button-down dad’s business — at least at the Democratic National Convention. Even as pro-marijuana activists marched this week in Philadelphia with a fake 51-foot joint, teams of industry leaders and lobbyists were busy doing the kind of work one would expect from ...

Article by Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post A new study in the journal JAMA Pediatrics is making waves this weekwith the news that there’s been a sharp uptick in emergency-room visits and poison-control calls for marijuana poisoning among children in Colorado. The study found that the number of marijuana-related hospital visits for children under the age of 10 more than doubled since ...

Article by Grant Robertson and Greg McArthur, The Globe and Mail Inside a sterile facility, the lab technician holds up a petri dish to show the intricate pattern of bacteria that are quickly multiplying. “Looks like something is already growing,” she says, surprised by how much has amassed in less than a day and a half. In any other context, the dish ...

Article by Chris Bennett, Cannabis Culture Many people are now familiar with the idea that the ancient Jews used cannabis, under the names Kaneh and Kaneh Bosm, in their anointing oils and incenses. However, few are aware that at least two religious scholars, more than a century apart and from different nationalities have independently suggested that the Prophet Ezra, considered ...

Article by William Tomer, USA Today If you live in the South — particularly Alabama, Mississippi or Texas — odds are you are less likely to smoke pot, a new study shows. That’s because of what the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) calls a “perception of risk” by people thinking about marijuana. In the South, SAMHSA’s study ...

Article by Dr. Shane Morris, Lift According to Health Minister Jane Philpott, in less than 30 days (by August 24th next), amendments to the Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations(MMPR) will be made in response to the Federal Court’s Allard ruling that upheld patients’ rights to grow their own medical marijuana. Such amendments could have far reaching impacts on patient access, ...

Article by Polly Mosendz, Bloomberg Increasingly lax marijuana legislation may be cheered loudest in college dorms, but it’s the professor-aged ganja enthusiasts who are the average consumers of the legal stuff. Headset Inc., a cannabis intelligence firm, reviewed about 40,000 legal marijuana purchases made in Washington State from September 2014 to July 2016. The Seattle-based company determined that the average recreational weed consumer ...