Article by Trina Calderón, Leafly In 2014, San Diego native Shannon Barnett, a makeup artist and set nurse now based in Los Angeles, hit a wall with fatigue and a series of red dots and open rashes started to show up everywhere from her ankles to around her mouth. Already dealing with polycystic ovarian syndrome since age 12 and Raynaud’s ...

Article by Bruce Ryan, High! Canada Researching the arena of battery tech (as I mentioned in the last article), it quickly became obvious that this area is of extremely high interest everywhere. The means to store energy, cheaply and efficiently, is the holy grail in modern energy systems. Teams from around the world are working on this technology: spending hundreds of ...

Article by Madison Margolin, LA Weekly Bros and blunts are cool, but ganja’s more of a girl thing these days. With cannabis as America’s fastest-growing industry, and Los Angeles the capital of that industry, women are determined not to be left out. From pot princesses to power women who love weed, a handful of L.A. ladies have taken it upon ...

Article by Gonzo Nieto, Lift News Trevor Gordon was working as an investment analyst and trader when he received his cancer diagnosis on his wife’s birthday in 2016. The 32-year-old was diagnosed with urachal adenocarcinoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer with a poor prognosis and no reliably effective treatment. Doctors had found a tumor in his abdomen, about ...

Article by CTV News Residents near a recently-licensed legal marijuana grow-op in Langley are complaining that the bright lights coming from the facility are disruptive. The greenhouses used to grow bell peppers until recently. But on Feb. 16, a joint venture between Canopy Growth and BC Tweed received its licence to convert the sprawling 30-acre facility to grow marijuana. It’s being touted ...

Article by Chris Roberts, Leafly The backers of Prop. 64, the 2016 Adult Use of Marijuana Act, sold California voters on the promise that small and medium businesses would be the engine powering the state’s $7 billion legal cannabis market. So far, that’s not happening. According to a report released today by the California Growers Association, a small-farmers advocacy group, fewer than 1% ...

Article by Vaping Daily Cannabis has been having a good couple of years. The one thing no one could envision – the complete legalization of recreational marijuana (in some states) – through the paranoia-soaked fog of the War on Drugs years is now as clear a reality as the sun rising over Puget Sound. With legalization has come a deluge ...

Article by Élif Oral, Norton Rose Fulbright As reported in our previous updates here and here and here, Canada has introduced legislation providing a framework for regulated access to legal cannabis for recreational use. The proposed Cannabis Act provides for oversight of the legal cannabis industry, with the federal government establishing licensing and authorization requirements for production, packaging, and labelling, and provincial/territorial governments overseeing distribution and retail ...

Article by High! Canada High! Canada Magazine recently connected with Medigreen to discuss the rising popularity of CBD-based products in Canada. Medigreen is a Vancouver based company seeking through its various ventures to provide consumers with better quality & healthy cannabis (CBD only) and other plant-based medicines. They offer honest products, conduct fair trade and are a socially responsible company that ...

Article by Dana Smith, Cannabis.net Studies show that cannabis use in and out of the emergency room can save lives. Chinese researchers from the Fudan University in Shanghai found that cannabis protects against the oxidative damage during a cardiac emergency, which prevents neurons from dying off. Specifically, cannabidiol (CBD), the non-psychoactive compound in cannabis, has been found to protect from reperfusion ...