Article by Las Vegas Sun A blaze in a rugged area south of San Jose threatened hundreds of structures and destroyed at least one home as it burned aggressively, after charring more than 3 square miles of dry brush and timber. A heat wave in parts of drought-stricken California worsened the wildfire that began Monday and forced hundreds of people ...

Article by Paul Elias and David Crary, Associated Press via ABC News From California, with its counterculture heritage, to the fishing ports and mill towns of Maine, millions of Americans in nine states have a chance to vote Nov. 8 on expanding legal access to marijuana. Collectively, the ballot measures amount to the closest the U.S. has come to a ...

Article by Lukas W, Herb Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced her views on the “gateway” argument in a speech at Kentucky University. With regards to heroin use, she explains that most addicts began using opioids rather than cannabis on their way to addiction. The speech highlights the dangers of opioids and how cannabis should not be blamed for creating heroin users. ...

Article by Matt Ferner, The Huffington Post Police made fewer arrests for marijuana-related offenses last year than they have in any year since 1996, according to crime data the FBI released Monday. Still, authorities in the U.S. made 643,000 arrests for marijuana-related charges in 2015 ― or about one every 49 seconds. Charges related to the drug accounted for 5.9 percent ...

Article by Kyle Jaeger, ATTN Chelsea Clinton made a pretty bold assertion about the health risks of marijuana during a campaign event in Ohio on Saturday. The daughter of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton implied that multiple deaths in Colorado, where the substance is legal for medical and recreational purposes, could be attributed to pot. After she acknowledged that, “anecdotally,” ...

Article by Emily Gray Brosious, Extract “Mommy and daddy, what’s marijuana?” That’s a question parents in places like Oregon may be more likely to hear their children ask, now that the state has legalized marijuana for adults 21 and older. The drug’s increased availability and market visibility means more families are grappling with how to talk to their kids about marijuana, and ...

Article by Abbie Llewelyn, Volteface The Netherlands’ contradictory laws on cannabis could finally be resolved as, for the first time, the majority of MPs look to back a bill that would legalise government-regulated cannabis cultivation. It would allow coffee shops to buy from licenced cannabis growers and would implement quality control. Currently, licenced coffee shops can sell small amounts of ...

Article by Jon Hiltz, Marijuana.com At long last, domestic Italian cannabis is here for the medical community; which is, as they say, fantastico! Colonel Antonio Medica completed the first portion of a very special mission: growing medical marijuana for the country. Army officials announced that the first shipment of 1,600 5-gram jars is ready for shipment to Italian hospitals and pharmacies in need. Italy passed ...

Article by New Cannabis Ventures We have profiled  a very innovative company, DeepCell Industries, previously, and Matthew Kind interviewed its CEO, Kelly Ogilvie, on his most recent episode of CannaInsider. Ogilvie was working with Washington Governor Jay Hensley’s as Senior Policy Advisor for economic development and business interests when he left to form DeepCell Industries, his fifth startup. DeepCell uses crystal ...

Article by Brian Anderson, Motherboard Quick: What’s something—perhaps one of the only things—Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump see eye-to-eye on? If you guessed supporting medicinal cannabis legalization efforts moving forward on a state-by-state basis, *bong rips*. That the respective Democratic and Republican presidential candidates have both expressed support for medicinal weed is certainly notable, especially in what’s become one of ...