September 2019

iStock/IRA_EVVA A new Quality Charter has been put forward in the UK to encourage legal compliance within the UK’s medical cannabis industry. The Centre for Medicinal Cannabis (CMC), the UK’s first and only industry membership body for…

Although marijuana has been legal in California for nearly two years, black market weed is still a booming business in the state. Illegal sellers outnumber legal and regulated businesses almost 3-to-1, according to a startling analysis of…

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke on Thursday unveiled his plan to legalize marijuana at both the federal and state level, remove the drug from the controlled substances list and grant clemency to those serving prison time for…

Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb. | Zach Gibson/Getty Images It's time for the federal government to regulate marijuana sensibly so it can assess the medical value of a plant whose use has skyrocketed as states legalize…

National Expungement Week is upon us, which means clinics and events will take place nationwide to help past offenders move forward with their lives. And with laws allowing legal cannabis since 2012, the state is ripe for record-sealing…

Bisexual women are seven times more likely to consume medical cannabis on a daily basis than their heterosexual counterparts, according to the first study of its kind. It found that found 40 per cent of bisexual women had…

Largest cannabis conference in Northeast coming to Maine WGMEPORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- The largest cannabis conference in the Northeast is coming to Maine's largest city next month. The New England Cannabis Network ... This article…

Multiple sclerosis sufferers say it is ‘inhumane’ that they are forced to break the law, and want medical cannabis to be made available on the NHS. David Cohen reports. Penny Fitzlyon was in hospital to undergo an MRI scan for her multiple…

Marijuana banking bill might have easier time passing Senate with these new hemp rules McClatchy Washington BureauMeasures making it easier for hemp growers to do business may be included in a bill to allow banks to conduct…

We’ve all seen the tsunami of news that has flooded the UK over the past 18 months. Many of us have participated in sharing links to mainstream newspapers, excited that cannabis is finally being recognised as medically viable and that this…