Article by Horace Hines, Jamaica Observer A co-strategist in Israel’s Ministry of Health’s medical cannabis programme, Boaz Watchtel, is calling on the Andrew Holness-led Administration to move with alacrity to put in a framework for the establishment a medical ganja industry. He also recommended that the Government move swiftly to legalise the herb. “Now is the time to get the ...

Article by Kate Mckee Simmons, Westword News Andrew Schrot, the CEO of Denver-based Blue Kudu, moved to Colorado from Tampa, Florida, with his brother in the summer of 2010, excited to get involved in the cannabis industry. “We thought about edibles, because at that time there wasn’t a consistent, quality product that patients could rely upon,” Schrot recalls. When Schrot was growing ...

Article by Mike Tanier, Bleacher Report Jake Plummer stands in a grassy meadow on a breezy spring afternoon, a Rocky Mountain peak framing his backdrop. He poses heroically, if just a little self-consciously, for yet another medical marijuana-related photo shoot. … The meadow Plummer stands in is behind a laboratory tucked into a nondescript corporate campus in Boulder, Colorado. The ...

Article by Steve Bloom, Bilboard Melissa Etheridge is diving headlong into the marijuana business. Her company, Etheridge Farms, will soon be making cannabis products available for California medical patients. “I’m right in the process of branding,” she tells Billboard. “There’s a balm that’s so good for muscles and arthritis. I have my own smoke, some edibles and some [oil] cartridges. ...

Article by Janet Silvera, The Gleaner Jamaica’s south-western coast is being eyed as a health and wellness destination, offering cannabis-infused experiences, rustic luxury and nature tourism, says Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett. The geographical area between Negril, West End in Westmoreland, and Black River, St Elizabeth, on the development agenda, is being considered as a new resort destination, Bartlett revealed to ...

Article by Judith Lewis Mernit, Salon Twenty years after legalizing the use of medical marijuana, California voters will decide whether to permit the use of recreational pot. This week, in a special series, Capital & Main looks at what will happen if Prop. 64 passes in November. “High Times: How Legalizing Marijuana Would Transform California” reports on how a legal cannabis industry ...

Article by Greg Price, International Business Times Australia leaped the final hurdle for the legalization of medical marijuana Wednesday, nearly seven months after its Parliament passed amendments to its national drug laws. Long-brewing after a major grass-roots campaign, the use of the drug for medicinal purposes will be allowed beginning in November but will also be “strictly controlled,” according to ...

Article by Tom Angell, Marijuana.com Why would a member of NORML’s National Legal Committee file a lawsuit seeking to get a medical marijuana measure kicked off of Arkansas’s November ballot? Thats’s the question many cannabis policy observers are asking after Kara Benca, a lifetime member of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws’s attorneys panel, sued on Friday ...

Article by Christopher Serju, The Gleaner Some of the prevailing confusion about the full implications of the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2015, which allows for decriminalisation of small amounts of ganja for personal use, played out a recent public function hosted by the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) at the Joint Trade Union Development Research Centre at 1a Hope Boulevard, ...

Article by Alan Brochstein, New Cannabis Ventures We receive requests almost daily from cannabis entrepreneurs regarding the best potential sources of capital. One of the venues we recommend that they consider is The Arcview Group, which is an angel investor network that has been focused on the cannabis industry since 2010. Its accredited-investor members, who now exceed 550, have funded ...