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Article by Laurie McGinley, Washington Post It was the most ordinary of family dinners, with pizza and cauliflower. Two exhausted parents sipped red wine. Two children giggled over silly jokes and squabbled over a stuffed animal named Baby Jaguar. A few moments later, 8-year-old Elijah Simpson-Sundell, his face slightly swollen and his speech slurred, walked unsteadily away from the table. ...

Article by The Kindland The future of food farming could take a few pointers from pot. At least according to Rick Byrd, CEO of organic cultivation equipment wholesaler, Pure Agrobusiness Inc. The agriculture innovator, whose company’s products are used by cannabis farmers to grow weed, sees the increased frequency of harvests made possible by the high-tech indoor cultivation technology as ...

Article by The Associated Press via The Cannabist Authorities have arrested three men they say carjacked a big-rig hauling half a ton of marijuana and led them to a pot-growing operation at a Pomona home. Authorities say the whole thing may have been a drug deal gone wrong. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports the truck was stolen Friday in Pomona. A ...

Article by Julia Bradshaw, The Telegraph GW Pharmaceuticals is hoping to develop a treatment for cancer after announcing promising results from an early stage study looking at how its cannabis-based molecules can help patients with the disease. The trial tested how safe and effective two of GW’s cannabis-derived molecules were in 21 patients suffering from glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), an aggressive type of brain ...

Article by Annalise Klingbeil, Calgary Sun Denver’s Dan Rowland advised Calgary’s city council to go slow, expect the unexpected, and introduce strict regulations and robust enforcement as Calgary prepares for the looming federal legalization of marijuana. Denver, Colorado became the first city in the world to legalize recreational marijuana sales on Jan. 1, 2014, and Rowland was in Calgary Monday ...

Article by Jordan Gill, CBC News A Fredericton veteran is raising money to send veterans to Ottawa to protest against coming changes in coverage for their medical marijuana prescriptions.  . Veteran Noah Starr, who was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in Afghanistan, said the changes to medical marijuana coverage have taken a toll even before they go into effect. “I ...

Article by Dale Carruthers, The London Free Press With legislation to legalize marijuana expected in the spring, a new player has emerged on London’s increasingly crowded pot-dispensary scene. The Chronic Hub Social Club has opened at 119 Dundas St., the first marijuana dispensary to set up shop in the city’s core. The new pot shop brings London’s dispensary count to ...

Article by Sam Pazzano, Toronto Sun In baseball, it’s three strikes and you’re out. Mandatory minimum penalties for marijuana growers have now been tossed out three times by Ontario Superior Court judges in the last two years. The third strike occurred in Hamilton on Friday when Justice Andrew Goodman struck down the two-year mandatory minimum sentence as unconstitutional. Goodman made ...

Article by Andrew Kurjata, CBC News RCMP in Prince George have shut down a second downtown pot shop, as marijuana dispensaries jostle for position in the largest city in northern B.C. RCMP accompanied city officials to inspect the stores. Neither shop had obtained a business licence and both had illegal drugs on the premises, according to police. Prince George RCMP Cpl. Craig Douglass said until new ...

Article by Jessica Leone, Marijuana Resources Weed isn’t usually a plant associated to sex. On a superficial level it is more likely to conjure up thoughts of food, the couch and maybe some fits of giggling. But according to countless studies, the stereotypes need expanding. Over the thousands of years that humans have been consuming marijuana, its effect on the ...