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David Taylor's business card carries the title "plant whisperer." "I talk to them every day," Taylor said earlier this month, outside the four greenhouses in rural Medical Lake where he operates his marijuana business, the Joint Venture. "I talk sweet to them. They're all females. I try to be...

Marijuana was never Mayor Ed Lee's chief concern. Prior to his sudden death on Dec. 12, Lee's public policy with respect to cannabis was to leave it for others to decide. While Lee approved legislation designed to define recreational marijuana sales for San Francisco earlier this month, his...

Ben Durkee is a true Trinity local. He's lived and worked in the Northern California county his entire life. "I grew up on a little creek on Ransom Road in Weaverville," he says. "We always called the creek the 'wrong creek' because it was near a two-house little dirt road that was labeled...

A teenager who missed eight years of school due to chronic fatigue has made an astonishing recovery after taking cannabis oil, his mum says. Tom Bethell's family say his life has been transformed since he started taking daily drops of cannabidiol or CBD, a legal form of cannabis. Tom, 15...

During the summer of 2016, Micah Jensen told his mother, Bonnie, he wanted to spend his birthday free of the severe migraines that had been plaguing him for months. Micah has autism and temporal lobe epilepsy, which causes recurrent, unprovoked seizures. But the migraines were new and getting...

Longtime New York medical marijuana advocate Dana Beal is back in the joint – this time in California. Beal, 70, was arrested on two pot charges Saturday night in a rural area about 100 miles south of the Oregon border, a Trinity County Sheriff's source told the Daily News. He was jailed...

A year ago, when president-elect Donald Trump announced Senator Jeff Sessions would be his attorney general, advocates for marijuana law reform were suddenly seized with panic. The longtime Alabama senator, they knew, had once joked that he considered the Klan to be OK guys until he found out...

Jim Lacquement aka CajunCelt May 25, 1968 — September 24, 2017 James "Jim" Lacquement aka CajunCelt, died in his home on September 24, 2017 in Argyle TX following a long battle with cancer. He was 49. Jim was an Army Veteran and graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a...

James Slatic has turned a leaf. San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan agreed on Friday to return to the medical marijuana pioneer and his business, Med-West Distribution, $289,979 – plus $5,484 in interest – that authorities confiscated in a January 2016 raid on his Kearny Mesa facility. So...

Ed Forchion, the most recognizable face of the marijuana legalization movement in New Jersey, views the state's changing legal landscape and sees irony in it. Lawmakers are putting finishing touches on a legalization measure. Gov.-elect Phil Murphy has said he would sign it. Analysts see a...

It's mid-morning at the headquarters of a medical marijuana delivery service in south Orange County, and employees are gearing up for orders to start flowing in. A skinny, clean-cut Millennial named Ben packs a smell-proof duffle bag with plastic medicine vials full of dried marijuana buds...

Earlier today, Ryan Briggs became one of the first Pennsylvanians to be certified as part of the state's new medical marijuana program. Together with his mother Diana Briggs, he and other members of his family travelled from Westmoreland County to the Compassionate Certification office in...

A 2005 felony drug conviction is coming back to haunt an emerging figure in Maine's marijuana industry and threaten his consulting gig in Ohio. But Trevor Bozeman, a 33-year-old Brunswick chemist, says his experience growing marijuana before it became legal only boosts his value to the...

When he received a cancer diagnosis one month before his 11th birthday, Chico Ryder didn't know that while one door closed, another opened. Now 16 and cancer-free, Chico has decided to dedicate himself to spreading the word about the benefits of medical cannabis, which he used to ease the...

Joseph Walker says he's killed his weight in worms. But after a dozen tries, Walker believes he's come up with an effective process for encouraging worms to eat – and more important, to poop – and then converting their teeny droppings into an organic fertilizer. The Brigham Young...

A 56-year-old Upper Peninsula man was sentenced to 12 years, seven months in prison and required to repay $475,000 for his involvement in what authorities have called a "marijuana production and distribution conspiracy." Spencer Troy Ward operated the marijuana production and distribution in...

Joseph Parker's co-promoter Bob Arum has credited cannabis for his longevity as he gets set for his 86th birthday and 50 years in the boxing game. The affable American fronts promotional giant Top Rank and has worked with the sport's biggest names from Muhammad Ali to Manny Pacquiao. Arum...

Silas Hurd has his good days and his bad days. The 9-year-old's debilitating seizures are hard to watch, but his father, Forrest Hurd, said one thing can improve the boy's quality of life: medicinal marijuana. Silas suffers from epilepsy, and when we first brought you his story last year...

Howard Fraleigh was a man ahead of his time. Born in the late 1800s, he served as a Conservative MPP in the early 1930s and was a successful farmer and flax mill owner in Forest known for embracing innovative ideas, including experimenting with the growing of hemp, a plant that produces...

Congratulations to @bobrown14for winning 420 Magazine's Grow Journal of the Month - November 2017! This award celebrates the very best grow journals on 420 Magazine. based on relevant content, quality of writing, photography and general knowledge sharing. All grow journals are chosen by the 420...