Article by Maureen Meehan, High Times The nation’s first hospice center plans to study how medical marijuana can help its dying patients. Officials at the the Connecticut Hospice in Branford, established in 1974, said on Monday that they are hoping to improve pain management while reducing opioid use in palliative care. They also want to decrease nausea and vomiting, while ...

Article by Rob Hotakainen, McClatchy DC When Colorado began selling legal marijuana in 2014, hundreds of families from around the nation saw new hope for their children who suffered from seizures. They flocked to the state in search of a cure: a liquid form of marijuana known as CBD oil. That’s short for cannabidiol, an extract that many parents say ...

Article by Beth Quimby, Portland Press Herald The group that opposed the referendum that legalized marijuana in Maine has formally dropped its request for a recount of the close vote last month. The action, filed Saturday afternoon with the Maine Secretary of State’s Office, stopped the recount two weeks into the process. About a fifth of the roughly 760,000 ballots ...

Article by Kate McKee Simmons, Westword The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) could be facing a lawsuit after its announcement earlier this week that it now considers cannabidiol, or CBD, a Schedule I substance. The DEA doesn’t have the authority to make a law and schedule controlled substances without an act of Congress, argues Robert Hoban, managing partner at the Hoban Law ...

Article by Brandon Friedrich, Maxim Earlier this year, it was reported that America’s support for legal weed had reached an all-time “high.” So it makes perfect sense that another marijuana milestone has been reached in the pot-loving state of Colorado, which reportedly just hit $1 billion in legal, regulated sales in the first ten months of 2016. Attorney and marijuana advocate Christian ...

Article by Fiona Patten, Vice Australia Australia might be called the lucky country, but luck has not been with the Victorian people when it comes to cannabis. Despite being one of the most progressive Australian states, with one of the most progressive state governments in the country, cannabis is still perceived by the Victorian Government as largely harmful to society. ...

Article by Colton Lockhead, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada’s cannabis industry wants to be tested. Hoping to avoid the pitfalls seen in other states that have legalized marijuana, several in Nevada’s marijuana industry want the state’s stringent testing of medical marijuana products to be carried over to the recreational market. Doing so is essential to protecting the consumers, they say, as ...

Article by Joshua Miller, Boston Globe Marijuana legalization brought unexpected challenges to Colorado, and it was rarely clear what part of state government was supposed to solve them, or how. Businesses were selling marijuana-infused, animal-shaped candy attractive to children. Residents growing pot at home were selling it illegally in other states. Growers were applying pesticides to cannabis plants even though ...

Article by Isabel Kershner, New York Times Israeli scientists began their pioneering research to isolate the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana with a 10-pound stash seized by the Tel Aviv police. That effort, in the 1960s, helped propel Israel to the vanguard of research into the plant’s medicinal properties and lay the foundations for a medical marijuana industry. Now the nation’s ...

Article by David Downs, San Francisco Chronicle Chris Phillips, a marijuana entrepreneur and Livermore father of four, faced five felony counts and possible prison time after he was accused of illegally growing pot at his home, which police raided in June. But when California voters legalized cannabis for recreational use Nov. 8, they retroactively erased several small-time pot crimes and ...