Cannabis consumers make more money, spend more time outdoors, volunteer more and are generally more happy about life, according to a study released Thursday. Is smoking marijuana the key to happiness?
According to BDS Analytics, the "well-adjusted lifestyles seen among cannabis consumers...
As the US faces its deadliest drug epidemic, the Senate is working on a new approach to deal with the crisis: the old war on drugs.
According to a new report by Carrie Johnson for NPR, a bipartisan pair of senators – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) – is working on a...
Gov. Phil Scott’s decision to veto legislation that would have made small amounts of recreational marijuana legal for adults drew mixed reactions on Wednesday from Upper Valley residents long involved in the criminal justice system.
“I think it was the most hopeful bad news I have heard in a...
Danvers joined a growing list of Massachusetts towns to pass a temporary moratorium on opening recreational marijuana shops.
Town Meeting members voted Monday to accept the moratorium, which Danvers administrators and planners have said will give the town more time to figure out how to handle...
A Canadian snowboarder who was temporarily stripped of his Olympic gold medal for having trace amounts of marijuana in his system is now in the medical cannabis business and says the product — set to be legalized next year — could be the new wine.
"It was a quick shift," Ross Rebagliati told...
The state Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved a measure that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana.
Bills to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana have passed through the New Hampshire House of Representatives eight times over the past decade. But they've...
Illinois lawmakers have proposed placing marijuana under the same legal restrictions as alcohol, meaning recreational marijuana would be available for legal purchase in the state to anyone over the age of 21, according to an article published in the Chicago Tribune.
The bill, which is...
Town Meeting will begin voting on many proposed warrant articles starting on April 24, but a medical marijuana buffer zone will not be one of them.
The Arlington Redevelopment Board on Monday, March 20 voted no action on the proposed warrant article, eliminating the opportunity for Town Meeting...
Days before Massachusetts voters approved legalizing marijuana, opponents seized on stoned driving as an issue, warning that law enforcement officials do not have a way to find out if a driver is impaired by the substance.
Legalization supporters noted police can pull a vehicle over if they...
Residents of the Emerald Triangle began receiving their sample ballots this last week. Inside they will have a number of important and historic votes to make. Some might argue that not one is more important and historic for this region than Proposition 64, the vote to legalize recreational...
Trenton - The demand for prescription drugs treating pain, nausea and other debilitating symptoms of illness "significantly fell" from 2010 to 2013 among Medicare patients in states where medicinal marijuana is legal, such as New Jersey, according to a study released Wednesday.
The decline...
Trenton - The demand for prescription drugs treating pain, nausea and other debilitating symptoms of illness "significantly fell" from 2010 to 2013 among Medicare patients in states where medicinal marijuana is legal, such as New Jersey, according to a study released Wednesday.
The decline...
Medical marijuana growers say there's a simple solution to fast-track selling recreational pot legally — mail it out.
Currently, medicinal marijuana can be sold by mail order to those with a prescription. Growers say a quick way to start selling it legally across the country would be to simply...