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Smiths Falls, Ontario – population 8,885 – is seeing a revival of fortunes since medical marijuana producer Tweed Inc. set up shop four years ago in an abandoned Hershey Co. chocolate factory. The company, since renamed Canopy Growth Corp., has become the world's largest publicly traded cannabis...

The past year has been a pivotal one for pot policy. A record high 64 percent of Americans supported legalizing marijuana for recreational use, according to a 2017 Gallup Poll, which means the U.S. will likely see more states jumping online in the coming year. Recreational marijuana now is...

After about one month of medical marijuana sales in Maryland, Montgomery County leads the state in the number of patients certified to buy the substance. A state database shows that as of Dec. 21, about 10,995 people in Maryland have gotten permission to shop at a medical cannabis dispensary...

One of a parent's favorite sayings to a child is, "Just because everyone else is doing it doesn't mean it's a good idea." But in the case of legalizing the sales of recreational marijuana products, it's time for the Clark County council to rethink its position and not just parrot that same...

More than twenty years after I first attempted to quell a migraine headache with a bong hit, I have become a card-carrying medical-marijuana user. Well, not exactly. This is New York State. You can't get actual marijuana, only extracts. This makes it impossible to access what could be my best...

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California's Berkeley Patients Group will be selling recreational cannabis starting at 6 A.M. on January 1st. They'll be kicking off what is sure to be a pivotal year in Cannabis — one way or the other. The industry has been expanding rapidly in sales and geography. North America spending on...

A man who was caught transporting almost €60,000 worth of cannabis in Limerick told gardai he had intended selling the drugs to clear a €10,000 debt he owed. Patrick Foley, aged 28, who has an address at Brookville Avenue, Tipperary Town has pleaded guilty to possession of around 3kgs of...

Advocates for the cultivation, distribution and sale of medical marijuana won an important victory Wednesday when the Oceanside City Council agreed to forward the recommendations of an ad hoc committee to city staffers for more work. The committee, after a six-month series of meetings with...

A terminally-ill mother who was given the all clear from a cancer which she originally though was hay fever has turned to cannabis oil when the cancer returned. Jannine McHaffie, 27,thought she had beaten a rare form of mouth cancer in 2015 but has been told it has returned and there is no...

Joanna Arenstein has a slogan: "Jews and weed go together like ... Jews and weed." As the executive director of East Bay Canna, she knows a lot of people in the cannabis community – and that means she knows a lot of Jews. "We're everywhere," Arenstein said with a laugh. Pushing...

There are fewer than 10 days to go before California launches its legal marketplace for the retail sale of recreational marijuana. How smoothly that transition goes will depend on how many cities and counties opt in to allow commercial cannabis business in their jurisdictions. At this...

Hawaii's cannabis industry is facing more setbacks as the state struggles with an understaffed program. Seven of 11 positions are vacant at the Department of Health, which oversees the medical cannabis patient registry and dispensary licensing programs. The registry is down three of six...

Former California Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer is going from enforcing laws against marijuana to legally distributing the drug under the state's new rules that allow the sale and possession of pot for recreational use. With state-licensed sales of marijuana starting Jan. 1, Lockyer has co-founded...

Forget seeing marijuana stocks go up in smoke in 2017. They've been smoking hot. According to cannabis research firm ArcView, the North American legal weed industry is expected to grow by 26% a year through 2021. If this proves the case, we could be talking about nearly $22 billion in sales...

Got a lawyer in your back pocket? Got your millionaire lined up yet? After nine years of the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act, the state has finally rolled out a distribution system for the substance. And while it's about damn time, it's not a terrain you want to wander into without a lawyer...

Canadians spent about C$6bn ($5.6bn, £3.5bn) on cannabis in 2015 - almost as much as they did on wine. The estimate comes from Canada's bureau of statistics, which studied marijuana consumption between 1960 and 2015. The government has promised to research the drug's affect on the economy...

There's a very good reason the legal marijuana industry has been referred to as the "green rush" -- it's making marijuana-stock investors a lot of money. Far more pot stocks than not have had their valuations double or triple over the past year. The catalysts behind this bullishness are a...

In a long overdue move, the Thai government this past week decided to relax the narcotics law and allow hemp to be grown as a cash crop in six provinces in northern Thailand. The decision to allow hemp in 15 districts of six designated provinces — Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Nan, Tak, Phetchabun...

If everything goes according to plan Corner Brook will soon see a medical marijuana production facility. BeeHighve Inc. announced its plan to become a licensed producer of medical marijuana in a press release Friday. Rita Hall, an aboriginal woman who was born and raised in Corner Brook, is...