A couple in Pennsylvania is reportedly suing their local police department and Nationwide Insurance Co. after they were arrested because their hibiscus plants got mistaken for cannabis.
An insurance...
Researchers found alcohol is about ten times more likely to cause a fatal crash than cannabis, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS-One.
Scientists at the University of Lyon examined...
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Indiana made it legal for some people to possess CBD oil when it passed a cannabis-focused bill in April. The law claims, among many other things, that citizens...
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Though medical cannabis is legal in 29 states, not all of them allow those with PTSD to join the program. Until recently, New York was a state that didn’t...
Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns recently said the NBA should remove cannabis from the league’s banned substance list.
In an in-depth interview with ESPN Nick Friedell on Wednesday,...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions stated the Obama-era guidelines on cannabis remain in effect, therefore the drug is illegal on the federal level, even though several states have legalized it for social...
Lawyer Sean Berberian claimed this week that the Arizona medical cannabis program is illegally charging registered patients an excessive fee for access to the state-approved medicine.
The price of a...
In 2017, the U.S. hemp production totaled 23,346 acres in 18 states, according to a new survey data from a prominent hemp-advocacy group.
That’s more than twice as much as hemp production in 2016,...
Budweiser’s former chief marketing officer Chris Burggraeve recently moved from beer to cannabis, a sign of the alcohol industry’s growing interest in the cannabis business.
Burggraeve has now joined...
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One group that often doesn’t get enough attention when cannabis legalization is discussed is veterans. As someone who’s written about veterans and cannabis...
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) wants federally-licensed researchers to grow 443,680 grams of cannabis for scientific studies in 2018.
The government-cultivated proposed cannabis, that...
Medical cannabis is legal in more than half of U.S. states, but it still remains illegal under federal law. The Food and Drug Administration does not in fact regulate derivatives of the plant, such as...
