Combined sales of legal recreational and medical marijuana in the United States is projected to reach more than $8 billion in 2018. That's according to a new report by Marijuana Business Daily citing data from the Marijuana Business Factbook, which f...

A recent Cannabis Network Radio podcast raised some interesting questions about the way we think of CBD and proposed exploring cannabis from a "whole plant" medicine perspective.

The Obama administration today signaled that it was willing to work with Congress to move marijuana out of the federal outlaw-drug category known as Schedule I. Under that classification, shared with heroin, ecstasy and others, marijuana has no legitimate use whatsoever, even for medical research or patient treatment. Lower schedule status,...

A Southern Ontario police chief says he's worried about the possibility of criminals hijacking delivery trucks leaving Canada's new large-scale medicinal marijuana grow facilities.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration handed backers of medical marijuana a significant victory Friday, opening the way for a University of Arizona researcher to examine whether pot can help veterans cope with post-traumatic stress, a move that could lead to broader studies into potential benefits of the drug.

Advocates of medical marijuana are encouraged by a Federal Court decision to allow licenced individuals to keep producing homegrown pot. Judge Michael Manson issued an injunction Friday exempting. . .

There's an interesting piece over at Fast Company ruminating on what the cost of a pack of legal cannabis joints would be. The answer they come up with is around $50, with perhaps the top end premium products at the $120 of the current marketplace. There's a problem with this [...]

Michigan residents diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder will now qualify for treatment under the state's medical marijuana law, which is expanding to include a new condition for the first time since voter approval in 2008.

Medical marijuana pills or an oral spray made from cannabis may help ease some of the painful spasms caused by multiple sclerosis that make day-to-day life h...

Marijuana has long been known for helping veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but its effect on veterans and how the drug suppresses flashbacks, anxiety and insomnia have never been...

As the nation’s only truly legal supplier of marijuana, the U.S. government keeps tight control of its stash, which is grown in a 12-acre fenced garden on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

A dispensary in Colorado is making the most of the state’s recent legalisation of cannabis by introducing the world’s first marijuana vending machines.

Over 120 German professors of criminal law are supporting an initiative to legalize cannabis. They have called on the Bundestag to discuss the issue. Merkel's coalition is skeptical.

We investigate attitudes towards legalisation, and ask if the Americas are reaching a tipping point in the war on drugs.

NEW YORK -- Uruguay is considering using medical marijuana to treat prison inmates addicted to a crude and cheap form of cocaine, one of the country's top health officials said Thursday at the United Nations.

The South American country made headli...

If an August ballot measure legalizing recreational marijuana use passes, it's unlikely medical users will continue to invest time and money in pursuing medical marijuana registration.

The 20 marijuana plants Chuck Ream grows are perfectly legal under Michigan law.

Stoners are often revered as a forgetful bunch with a less than satisfactory capacity for storing information, but a new study indicates that die-hard marijuana users may not be as scatterbrained as previously theorized.

A plan to manufacture medical marijuana in the northern New Brunswick town of Atholville is underway and that will mean guaranteed jobs, and spinoffs that could extend to the entire region.

A researcher says the feds have used delaying tactics to avoid selling the drug to her for a PTSD study.

Federal government allows marijuana use in states where it’s legal, but its employees who live there can’t light up.