Article by The Source Magazine On the desert edge of Las Vegas, Nevada, an organic farmer harnesses ample sun and soil–and water siphoned from the distant Colorado River–to offer his customers yearround access to local produce. They may come for fresh asparagus, eggplant or sweet peppers. But what they come running back for, he concedes, is his locally grown aromatic flowering herb: Cannabis sativa, otherwise known as marijuana. His cash crop is ...

Article by Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post The American Legion, a group representing 2.4 million U.S. military veterans, has called on Congress to remove marijuana from Schedule 1 of the federal Controlled Substances Act and “reclassify it in a category that, at a minimum will recognize cannabis as a drug with potential medical value.” In a resolution passed at the Legion’s annual convention last ...

Article by Steven Nelson, US News An embattled pharmaceutical company that sells the powerful painkiller fentanyl has donated $500,000 toward defeating a ballot initiative that would make recreational use of marijuana legal under Arizona law. It’s hard to imagine a more sinister donor than Insys Therapeutics Inc. in the eyes of pot legalization proponents, who long have claimed drug companies ...

Article by Tyler Koslow, Merry Jane After a long and steady fight to legalize the use of medical marijuana across the state, the Senate committee has made some major regulatory strides in their cannabis system, aiming to provide their citizens with better regulations through a new package of freshly passed bills. On Thursday, members of the Michigan Senate voted with ...

Article by Mark Thiessen, The Associated Press via News 1130 The owners of Frozen Budz have high hopes now that they’ve received Alaska’s first retail marijuana license. Destiny Neade, co-owner of the Fairbanks business, received a round of applause from the audience after she won unanimous approval for the inaugural permit from the five-man Alaska Marijuana Control Board. She clapped ...

Article by Amando Flavio, AnonHQ As the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) continues to display its arrogance, refusing to remove marijuana from schedule 1 of the Control Substance Act (CSA), thanks to certified professional bodies in the country, more and more details on medical efficacy of the plant is being revealed. On August 11, 2016 the DEA turned down two ...

Article by Brian Major, Travel Pulse Nearly two years after Jamaica enacted legislation to ease penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana, government tourism officials are forging the first official links to the surging weed tourism marketplace. “Cannabis-infused tourism” has a place in Jamaica’s product mix, alongside all-inclusive resorts and mass tourism said Edmund Bartlett, Jamaica’s tourism minister in ...

Article by Elizabeth Byrne, ABC News A Canberra naturopath who gave cannabis liquids to his daughter and sold it to terminally ill customers has avoided jail, instead receiving a 12 month suspended sentence. Ryan Franzi, 39, was arrested after police found cannabis oil and tinctures in his house last year. In August he admitted to producing and supplying the drug ...

Article by Allison Keyes, The Root If you search “babies cured with cannabis” on YouTube, you come up with a plethora of emotional videos. There’s California’s Dr. William Courtney from 2013, using X-rays to show what he says is the cure of an 8-month-old baby suffering from a brain tumor with cannabis oil. Then there’s an excerptfrom the 2014 documentary ...

Article by Associated Press via Sportsnet Having spent the past four months showing he’s capable of keeping the effects of Crohn’s disease in check, Bills offensive tackle Seantrel Henderson faces yet another hurdle in attempting to resume his career. Henderson is appealing the NFL’s four-game suspension for violating the league’s substance abuse policy after testing positive for marijuana, a person ...