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Lawsuit: couple arrested after hibiscus plants mistaken for cannabis

Lawsuit: couple arrested after hibiscus plants mistaken for cannabis

Sara Tiradossi November 21, 2017

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...

New study: alcohol is 10 times more deadly than cannabis on the road

New study: alcohol is 10 times more deadly than cannabis on the road

Sara Tiradossi November 21, 2017

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...

The DEA is choosing not to go after those selling CBD

The DEA is choosing not to go after those selling CBD

November 20, 2017

Thor Benson / Cannabis News Box Contributor 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...

New York will let those suffering from PTSD get medical cannabis

New York will let those suffering from PTSD get medical cannabis

November 17, 2017

Thor Benson / Cannabis News Box Contributor 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...

NBA star Karl-Anthony Towns sees medical cannabis as an option for NBA players

NBA star Karl-Anthony Towns sees medical cannabis as an option for NBA players

Sara Tiradossi November 16, 2017

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,...

Sessions says Obama-era policies are intact, but cannabis is still illegal

Sessions says Obama-era policies are intact, but cannabis is still illegal

Sara Tiradossi November 16, 2017

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...

Attorney claims Arizonas fee for medical cannabis patients is too high

Attorney claims Arizona’s fee for medical cannabis patients is too high

Sara Tiradossi November 15, 2017

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...

New report: U.S. hemp production doubles in 2017

New report: U.S. hemp production doubles in 2017

Sara Tiradossi November 14, 2017

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,...

Budweisers former marketing chief jumps into cannabis industry

Budweiser’s former marketing chief jumps into cannabis industry

Sara Tiradossi November 14, 2017

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...

Veterans want cannabis legalized

Veterans want cannabis legalized

November 13, 2017

Thor Benson / Cannabis News Box Contributor 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...

DEA wants researchers to grow less cannabis for medical studies in 2018

DEA wants researchers to grow less cannabis for medical studies in 2018

Sara Tiradossi November 12, 2017

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...

New study: nearly 70 percent of CBD extracts labeled incorrectly

New study: nearly 70 percent of CBD extracts labeled incorrectly

Sara Tiradossi November 10, 2017

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...

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