Article by Julie Turkewitz, The New York Times It’s nighttime at the Herbal Cure, a south Denver marijuana shop and grow house tucked into a parking lot beside the highway. Inside is a marijuana bounty: thousands of dollars’ worth of cannabis plants, boxes of marijuana-infused chocolate, jars of $360-an-ounce weed with names like Frankenberry, Lemon Skunk and Purple Cheddar. Chris ...

Article by The Associated Press via The News & Observer Colorado is expected to reach another national first on cannabis Wednesday when state agriculture officials show off the first domestic certified hemp seeds. The Colorado Department of Agriculture has been working for years to produce hemp seeds that consistently produce plants low enough in the chemical THC to qualify as ...

Article by Sarah Ratchford, Civilized Cannabis users who want to spare their lungs from smoking now have a new way to administer their meds: puffers. Vapen held a soft launch of the inhaler, called Vapen Clear, at Herbal Wellness Center in Arizona at the end of August. They look like any other inhaler on the market and carry a surprisingly high ...

Article by Joshua Miller, Boston Globe PUEBLO WEST, Colo. — Out here, in this unincorporated community of 30,000, there are miles of barren scrub-brush dotted with wild sunflowers. Low-slung houses sit on East Gun Powder Lane and North Cougar Drive. There’s a Walmart Supercenter, a Little Caesars, a Safeway with a small Starbucks tucked inside. And, throughout the area, a ...

Article by Tom Angell, Marijuana.com The American Legion, which has more than 2 million members, passed a resolution at its annual convention last week urging Congress to “amend legislation to remove marijuana from schedule I and reclassify it in a category that, at a minimum will recognize cannabis as a drug with potential medical value.” Dr. Sue Sisley, one of ...

Article by Keith Stroup, NORML Those of us who support the full legalization of marijuana are greatly benefiting from political reforms adopted during what is frequently referred to as the Progressive Era in this country. The principal objective of the progressive movement was eliminating corruption in government, and to accomplish that goal, proponents sought ways to take down the powerful ...

Article by WHIO Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed the bill earlier this year to legalize cannabis for medical use. The bill will not allow marijuana to be smoked. It will have to be used in patches, vapors, edibles, etc. The bill also does not allow for users to grow marijuana at home. The Ohio Department of Commerce, State Medical Board ...

Article by Carimah Townes, Think Progress It’s been one month since the New Jersey legislature passed a bill to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with medical marijuana, and patients who could benefit from the policy shift are still hanging in the balance. Gov. Chris Christie (R) has yet to approve or veto the bill, and his past reluctance to change ...

Article by Daniel Burdon, Canberra Times Medicinal cannabis will become legal, but strictly controlled from November this year, under a formal decision reached by the Therapeutic Goods Administration this week. The final decision was published on Wednesday, paving the way for the drug to be legalised for medicinal use, as the federal government works towards creating a national regulator. Clinical trials have ...

Article by The Associated Press via The Globe and Mail Albanian police say they have successfully cracked down on cannabis growers, destroying more than 1.7 million plants so far this year. Altin Qato, a senior police director, on Monday said officers had destroyed three times the number of plants compared with last year. They also arrested about 150 people. Qato ...