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Money brought in by Colorado's booming, legal marijuana industry is now being used to help homeless citizens, address mental health and end the state's opioid epidemic. The state's $105 million in tax revenue from marijuana sales in the 2016-2017 fiscal year will go toward the "Marijuana Tax...

Today marks World No Tobacco Day and the industry that makes cigarettes says pot isn't getting picked on by the federal government. Eric Gagnon is the head of Corporate and External Affairs for Imperial Tobacco Canada and he thinks marijuana needs to face similar regulations that smoking...

On the eve of World No Tobacco Day on May 31, federal Health Minister Jane Philpott has a chance to explain why she is exhibiting a disturbing degree of incoherence with her recent approaches to the regulation of tobacco and marijuana. Public explanation is needed as both pot and tobacco are...

After state lawmakers failed to act, health officials on Thursday laid out a framework for adopting regulations required by a voter-approved constitutional amendment that could make Florida one of the nation's largest medical-marijuana markets. The Florida Department of Health on Thursday...

I started form seed under exact same conditions one Durban Poison and one Sour Jack. Durban has reached time to go to flowering stage while though good color and all around health the SJ is still a very small juvinile looking plant?

In a long-awaited decision, an administrative law judge Tuesday called for the state to issue two new licenses to medical marijuana operators, saying competing businesses --- which lost out to another operator selected by Florida health officials in 2015 --- were virtually tied...

New Mexico's medical cannabis industry has grown into a powerful magnet for money and customers. Customers, sales revenue and dispensaries have exploded the past year with more than 40,000 people now signed up to purchase medical marijuana. Since Jan. 1, some 8,000 New Mexicans obtained a...

The most controversial thing about Canada's move to legalize marijuana nationwide may be setting the minimum age for use at 18 — three years lower than in U.S. states that have embraced legalization — a move that is being closely watched across the continent. Advocates for the measure, expected...

Senate Bill 307 would allow for the consumption and sale of marijuana at temporary events for people over 21. A public hearing is being held Tuesday in Salem on the bill. Currently, those who buy cannabis products can only legally consume it in their homes. If this bill passes, a temporary...

Health officials in Colorado have launched a new call center for people who have health questions related to marijuana use. Pharmacists, nurses and toxicology experts from Denver Health's Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center will be available to answer questions 24 hours a day, seven days a...

More than 3,300 New Yorkers have joined the rolls of card-carrying medical marijuana users since late March, when the state added chronic pain to its list of conditions qualifying to receive the medicine, bringing the total number to over 18,000, the state Health Department said Friday. In...

New measures put in place by Health Canada to screen medical marijuana companies for contaminants have turned up further problems in the industry, with the discovery of a banned pesticide at Hydropothecary Corp. The company, one of more than three dozen federally licensed cannabis producers, was...

Two decades of state-by-state progression have resulted in legislation permitting the cannabis plant's access for patient use. Over that same time, industry has promoted assurances for legislation that enhance the cannabis plant's outcome. More important than access to the plant or advancing...

There are a lot of unknowns about how marijuana will be consumed when federal legislation kicks in next year. One of the biggest: Where will users legally be able to use cannabis? It's a question Ottawa Public Health is considering. It is also speaking to other municipal agencies, and it might...

Next week marks the fifth anniversary of the passing of Connecticut House Bill 5389, legalizing medical marijuana for patients with a wide range of ills – cancer, glaucoma, HIV, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and post traumatic stress disorder among them. As the 17th state to...

Pot dispensaries run the risk of action from Island Health if they continue to sell marijuana edibles, according to the health authority's top medical health officer. Marijuana-infused food, from cookies, to candies, brownies and chocolate bars have appeared on the menus of Nanaimo dispensaries...

SAN JUAN — The Municipality of Bayamón ordered Friday the immediate closure of the The Family Dispensary Inc. because the permit city hall granted it was for the sale of "basic necessities" not for the dispensing cannabis and its derivatives for medicinal use. The irregularity was found...

A mother who walked from Cork to Dublin to demand access to medicinal cannabis for her seven-year-old daughter has been told it would be "wholly inappropriate" for the Health Minister to greenlight the treatment. Vera Twomey said she was left waiting nine hours for vital documents promised by...

Medical marijuana firm Aurora Cannabis Inc. has announced a new disclosure process for its third-party quality control testing, which it says will assure clients of the purity of its products. That announcement comes amid growing concern over recalls of contaminated marijuana sold by Health...

Pitt alumna Sarah Carlins is making Pennsylvania a little greener, one court case at a time. As chair of Houston Harbaugh's Health Care Law Department in Pittsburgh, Carlins provides legal counsel and representation to business owners, patients, employees and shareholders in the medical...