Beckley News : Cannabis - Marijuana

Medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) filed recommendations yesterday for the Washington State legislature, based on a series of patient and provider stakeholder meetings held last week in Bellingham, Olympia, Seattle,...

Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai reportedly plans to price a drug to treat breast cancer at different levels for consumers at different income levels. The attempt to make the drug affordable...

Research in animals and cell cultures supports an anti-cancer effect of cannabis. Now researchers say they're ready to move to the clinical stage

Slowly, Americans are beginning to realize what a mess our 'War on Drugs' has been. We have spent billions of dollars and prosecuted millions of people, all to little real effect. Michigan has been front and center in this sad drama.

Russian law enforcement seized US$46 million of Afghan heroin in a series of raids, authorities announced on Wednesday.

Albert Hofmann’s Psychedelic Discovery  In November of 1938, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann was studying the medicinal plant squill and the ergot fungus to create a respiratory and circulatory stimulant, and first synthesized lysergic acid...

The Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act is a comprehensive blueprint for establishing and regulating a medical marijuana program run by the Arkansas Department of Health.

The largest study so far has found that natural cannabis may work best for patients

During a government background check in 1988, Steve Jobs famously remarked: “The best way I would describe the effect of the marijuana and the hashish is that it would make me relaxed and creative.” So, was one of the most creative minds of our time...

Dr. Jason McDougall believes cannabis could be useful for managing pain and inflammation in arthritis, but only if doctors can overcome the stigma

One month after the FBI shut down Silk Road, a black market website known as "the eBay for drugs," a new site launched Wednesday under the same name, offering a wide range of narcotics and declaring that its community of buyers and sellers was...

Colorado voters have approved a measure to tax recreational marijuana to regulate the drug and raise money for school construction.

For the first time since the 1970s, researchers are being allowed to study the potential medical properties of the most tightly controlled substances around. But it's not easy.

Parents of epileptic kids want cannabidol allowed in Canada, but officials say not enough research has been done on the treatment

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Cannabis remains the most consumed illegal drug in France . In 2010, 13.4 million French people aged between 11 and 75 had tried cannabis at least once in their lifetime; a third of…

Michigan Senators Push For Pharmaceutical-Grade Cannabis Michigan’s Senate Government Operations Committee advanced Senate Bill 660 with a 3-0 vote Tuesday.

Legalise, decriminalise, or prohibit? Cannabis, the most popular drug in France, is a contentious issue. But this complex debate is often reduced to a binary argument between those for and those…

Now that Miami Beach voters overwhelmingly approved a nonbinding medical-marijuana straw-poll issue, supporters and opponents wonder if the vote reflects the state’s sentiment.

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso called for governments around the globe to decriminalize drug possession and find more effective and humane ways of regulating drugs.

Michigan Child Protective Services officials removed Steve and Maria Green's daughter Bree from the shocked parents' home. The Greens' offense: both were lawfully using marijuana to treat legitimate medical conditions.

How Marijuana Cannabinoids Help Diabetics

Anonymous internet market for illegal goods reopens just four weeks after original site was shut by US authorities.