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Article by Lift In order to supply expected demand for marijuana, the government will have to increase existing legal production space significantly As Canada moves towards establishing a system to regulate marijuana for recreational use, supplying the demand for such a product will be a significant task. While the government can certainly lean on existing licensed producers under the Marijuana ...

Article by Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post There’s a body of research showing that painkiller abuse and overdose are lower in states with medical marijuana laws. These studies have generally assumed that when medical marijuana is available, pain patients are increasingly choosing pot over powerful and deadly prescription narcotics. But that’s always been just an assumption. Now a new study, released ...

Article by Chris Weigantm, Huffington Post The end of the federal government’s War On Weed is approaching fast. No matter how the details work out, that much seems pretty clear at this point. What began roughly 100 years ago as a racist legislative overreaction to Latino workers’ preferred method of relaxing — and was then ramped up (under Richard Nixon) ...

Article by Robbie Gonzalez, Wired News People who would rather ingest marijuana than smoke it have plenty of options. You can buy weed-infused pasta sauce, chewing gum, beef jerky… even vegan caviar. The edibles market is big. And this November, voters in California and several other states will decide whether to legalize the recreational use of pot—which means it’s poised ...

Article by Hank Daniszewski, National Post They don’t own a car or a computer. They don’t even have a phone. But when an Old Order Mennonite couple from northern Huron County, north of London, needed to control seizures in their six-year old daughter, they turned to a form of medical marijuana. … Using medical marijuana may seem like a “stretch” ...

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Article by Erik Shilling, Atlas Obscura Some marijuana growers in California are finally going to prison. Or, at least, a former one, after the Coalinga, California City Council voted recently to approve selling the city’s vacant jail to a cultivator of marijuana oil—for the low price of $4.1 million, according to the Fresno Bee. The cultivating company, known as Ocean Grown Extracts, ...

Article by Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News via NPR Prescription drug prices continue to climb, putting the pinch on consumers. Some older Americans appear to be seeking an alternative to mainstream medicines that has become easier to get legally in many parts of the country. Research published Wednesday found that states that legalized medical marijuana — which is sometimes recommended ...

Article by Jeff Lagerquist, CTV News Canada’s budding marijuana industry doesn’t expect Ottawa to embrace ads for weed on billboards or television screens once new legalization legislation is introduced next spring, according to the president of Canada’s highest-profile pot company. Mark Zekulin of Tweed Marijuana Inc. says he would rather see the Liberal government’s task force on legalizing pot focus ...

Article by Jeremy Berke, The Business Insider The CannaCloud vaporizer is billed as the “Keurig of Cannabis” — it’s a device that heats marijuana to a specific temperature without burning the plant — because it really is just like its coffee-maker namesake. It employs a similar pod-based technology that helped grow Keurig into the multi-billion dollar coffee empire that it is today. The CannaCloud was even designed by ...