Growers in Ohio will soon be licensed to cultivate medical cannabis; however, they will have issues starting their crops.
Since it is illegal to purchase cannabis plants from anyone but themselves,...
Thor Benson / Cannabis News Box Contributor
Studies have previously shown legalizing medical cannabis can help reduce the number of people using and dying from the abuse of opioids, and it looks like...
Attorney general Jeff Sessions said he want to see “more competition” among medical cannabis growers who supply the plant to researchers, in a testimony on Wednesday morning.
“I think it would...
The Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime & Incarceration sent a letter to Sessions and Trump on Wednesday urging them not to return the “lock ‘em up” crime-fighting policies of the 1980s and...
Thor Benson / Cannabis News Box Contributor
Wildfires have destroyed entire neighborhoods in Northern California, and it’s been reported that some fires are burning up the state’s cannabis farms....
Former NFL players discussed the benefits of the medical use of cannabis for athletes at the Southwest Cannabis Conference and Expo in Phoenix.
The six-member panel included former athletes Marvin Washington,...
Puerto Rico’s medical cannabis industry greatly suffered from the damages caused by Hurricane Maria, that could cost the island millions of dollars.
To increase the economic activity of the island,...
The North American legal cannabis market has been growing with sales increasing by 34 percent in 2016, and are expected to grow by an average of 26 percent each year through 2021.
Compared to the Mexico,...
Thor Benson / Cannabis News Box Contributor
Washington State’s Supreme Court ruled recently that the state cannot subject those who have been arrested for DWIs to random drug tests while they await...
A recent study out of the University of British Columbia (UBC) called for policy makers to take caution while considering to alter the cannabis distribution system through dispensaries.
UBC associate...
Colorado’s cannabis sales have peaked in 2017 with more than $1 billion from the combined sales of medical and social cannabis.
Counting more than a 20 percent increase in overall cannabis sales,...
Lucky’s Market, the Colorado-based natural foods chain, is now selling nearly a dozen brands of hemp-derived extracts rich in cannabidiol (CBD), one of the main compounds of cannabis.
Lucky’s director...
