Article by Vice The British weed industry has some unlikely new players taking charge of supply: green-fingered grandmothers. A combination of easy money, the introduction of the bedroom tax and the fact there’s a very low chance they’ll be locked up for their crimes has led to the rise of “groppers”, grannies with a crop, one of whom we met ...

Article by Mike Adams, Merry Jane Texas motorists busted for low-level drug possession, most of which likely involved marijuana, have been labeled “high threat criminals,” according to a new report from the folks at the Associated Press. It seems the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) considers some 1,800 minor offenders, all ranging from drug possession cases to failure to ...

Article by Diana Olick, CNBC It could be the hottest outgrowth of the pot-conomy — highly lucrative for both investors and cannabis companies. The industrial real estate that houses pot production is in high demand, and it is about to become the first opportunity for investors large and small to get in on marijuana. How? The biggest problem for cannabis ...

Article by Alexandra Sims, The Independant The decriminalisation of recreational cannabis use in California could be a milestone towards ending the drug’s prohibition nationally, it has been suggested. Alongside the presidential election, California will vote over whether to make recreational marijuana use legal on 8 November. If approved, as polls suggest it will be, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act ...

Article by Laurel Andrews, ADN.com Two Kenai Peninsula growers wasted no time delivering their product to the state’s first cannabis testing facility when it opened its doors at 8 a.m. Monday in Anchorage, one of the final steps before Alaskans can legally purchase marijuana. Leif Abel, co-owner of Greatland Ganja, walked into CannTest LLC right after the testing lab opened; he’d gotten up at 4 a.m. to make ...

Article by New Cannabis Ventures British Sugar, the leading UK beet sugar producer, announces today that its horticultural business is to grow a key ingredient for the pharmaceutical sector. This ingredient will be used in a new prescription medicine being developed to treat rare but serious forms of epilepsy in children. The medicine, known as Epidiolex, has recently completed trials ...

Article by Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist The movement for marijuana legalization could be gaining steam in Delaware. A state lawmaker has pledged to introduce a bill legalizing the adult use of cannabis, and a recent University of Delaware poll shows that 61 percent of residents surveyed support legalization, according to recent reports from the Delaware State News and The Wilmington ...

Article by Meredith Rutland Bauer, Motherboard California’s ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana could be a beacon of hope for anyone with a criminal record for using or possessing weed. Proposition 64 would legalize marijuana for adults 21 and older. But it would also allow judges to resentence individuals convicted of weed-related crimes, and for the destruction of records for ...

Article by Miranda Larbi, Metro If you suffer from insomnia, anxiety or some sort of continuous pain, then you’ve probably tried self-medicating loads of times. Alcohol. Pain killers. Sleeping tablets. They might all work for a while but, once the effect has worn off, you’re back to square one – uncomfortable, tired and stressed. But you can now get a 100% organic ...

Article by Thomas Fuller, New York Times To the red-and-blue map of American politics, it may be time to add green. The movement to legalize marijuana, the country’s most popular illicit drug, will take a giant leap on Election Day if California and four other states vote to allow recreational cannabis, as polls suggest they may. The map of where ...