Originally on KVAL News. Law enforcement put nearly 12,000 mature marijuana plants through a wood chipper Monday while dismantling a grow operation found in a remote corner of Curry County near the California border, Sheriff John Ward said. A helicopter surveyed the area from the air, and an armed ground team entered the grow first to make sure the area ...

Written by Susanna Capelouto for CNN. Edible marijuana offered at a quinceañera celebration is suspected of sickening 19 people Saturday night in San Francisco’s Mission District, according to the city’s Department of Public Health. Preliminary lab tests showed that gummy ring candy from the party contained THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. “Anyone who attended the quinceañera and may have taken ...

Written by Emily Brosious for Extract. Despite Mayor Bill de Blasio’s promises to reduce unnecessary low-level marijuana arrests in New York City, new data shows pot arrests jumped nearly 30 percent compared to the same time last year, as reported by Courthouse News Service. Data for the first half of 2016 released by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Servicesshows New York ...

Written by Luke Winkie for Vice Broadly. It’s hard to think of a website with a tighter link between title and value proposition than NakedWeedReport.com. The design is spartan, save for a video player in the middle of the screen. A series of women—all dressed in basic lingerie or nothing at all—read a weekly news bulletin on the art, culture, ...

Written by Antoinette Pryce for The Gleaner. On a cellular level, prostatic cancer is a disease considered to have a genetic factor and is caused by an abnormality in the human genome. In addition to genetic factors, prostate cancer, which is the primary cancer affecting Jamaican men, can be attributed to age. The prostate gland is composed of a tissue ...

Written by Alexandra Posadzki for CTV News. A startup based in Waterloo, Ont., is looking to take cannabis cultivation high-tech, but the success of the mobile app-controlled system may hinge on whether new regulations will allow Canadians to grow medical marijuana at home. Growing your own medical marijuana can be a time-consuming endeavour, says Bjorn Dawson, the co-founder of Grobo ...

Written by Gage Peake for Leafly. Avery Collins, a 24 year-old rising star in the sport of ultramarathoning, trains every day to find the perfect balance between his “happy place” and the pain of climbing a 4,000-foot mountain incline. In the world of elite ultra-athletes, who compete in single-day contests ranging from 50 to 200 miles, the race is often ...

Written by Georgina Caldwell for Global Cosmetics News. The Czech Republic is one of the few countries in Europe where regulatory controls for hemp differ to those in place for high-THC cannabis, allowing the industry for hemp-based dietary supplements and cosmetics to thrive. “We managed to sign export agreements worth around US$3 million just in three months of 2016,” Robin ...

Written by Mike Adams for Merry Jane. While the federal government continues to run a rampageous riot of anti-pot swill and Congressional sandbag tactics against the great American populous in terms of its desire to legalize marijuana, the latest Gallup poll indicates that not only are more people consuming the herb in the United States than ever before, but they ...

Originally posted to UK Health Cure. The $1 trillion War on Drugs launched by President Nixon in 1971 created the Mexican drug cartels, now legalizing weed is killing them. The Mexican drug cartels are finally meeting their match as a wave of cannabis legalization efforts drastically reshapes the drug trafficking landscape in the United States. It turns out that as ...