Article by Jon Hiltz, Marijuana.com Right now as you read this, a ship carrying marijuana activists and nearly 1,000 pounds of weed is headed for the shores of Israel. Their vessel, the “Erdalena,” is currently sailing through the Mediterranean Ocean toward Gordon Beach, Tel Aviv. Once ashore sometime tomorrow afternoon, these medical marijuana activists plan to distribute cannabis to sick ...

Article by Bloomberg via AG Web It looks like pot. It smells like pot. But it’s hemp, marijuana’s legal cousin, and it’s taking over the Bluegrass state. Across the rolling hills of Kentucky, which just two decades ago was the most tobacco-dependent state in the country, farmers are planting less of the crop after growing health concerns shrunk demand. Instead, ...

Article by TG Branfalt Jr., Ganjapreneur The DEA says that the rule change, published last week which changed the agency’s code for cannabis extracts, will make researching CBD easier, according to the U.S. News and World Report. Spokesman Russ Baer indicated that the DEA recognizes that some CBD studies “have been promising” and they “want to be able to support ...

Article by TG Branfalt Jr., Ganjapreneur An Australian woman with only a week or two left to live has been denied access to medicinal cannabis by her specialist doctors despite the federal framework that should allow terminally ill patients to access the program, the Daily Telegraph reports. New South Wales resident Katherine Lorraine, 51, said she has been trying to ...

Article by RT Israel’s army will soon loosen its rules on soldiers caught using marijuana off duty, doing away with strict regulations which call for troops to be court-martialed if caught with the drug. In addition to being court-martialed, Israel’s current rules allow for Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers caught with marijuana to be given jail sentences of up to ...

Article by Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post via The Cannabist Teen marijuana use fell sharply in Colorado in the years 2014 and 2015, after the opening of that state’s recreational marijuana market, new federal survey data show. The state-level data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health showed that 18.35 percent of Coloradans ages 12 to 17 had ...

Article by Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services via Arizona Capitol Times Local officials cannot use federal laws outlawing marijuana to refuse to provide necessary zoning for dispensaries, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. In their unanimous decision, the judges acknowledged the federal Controlled Substances Act makes the possession and sale of marijuana a felony. And they noted that the ...

Article by The Kindland Christmas ended early in the town of Jacksonville, Florida, when uniformed and undercover police reportedly swarmed a man wearing a red suit and hat festooned with white trim, pompom and beard. According to an unidentified eyewitness and Florida CBS affiliate WKMG, a 41-year-old man named Isaac Geiger was innocently spreading holiday cheer from the back of ...

Article by Douglas Yu, Confectionery News One of the largest cannabis brands in the US, Chong’s Choice, has launched five different chocolate bars through a partnership with infused chocolate maker, Défoncé Chocolatier. The decision was made shortly after the state of California legalized recreational use of marijuana last month. Relax Agency, a Los Angeles-based creative agency that works with cannabis ...

Article by The Economist IN NOVEMBER 57% of Californians voted to legalise the growing and use of marijuana for recreational purposes. Americans in seven other states and Washington, DC, are now, or soon expect to be, free to puff away at leisure, but liberalisation in the most populous border state will be felt acutely down south. Mexico has just marked ...