Beckley News : Cannabis - Marijuana

Jamen Shively, former Microsoft executive and current Diego Pellicer CEO, wants to build the first national marijuana store brand.

Is it time to defund the federal Drug Enforcement Administration? In the wake of revelations that the DEA has a citizen-spying program eclipsing those run by our official spy agencies, that's the q...

Denver, Colo., has more medical marijuana dispensaries than Starbucks, but the budding business defies federal laws

Jamie Doward: From her Oxfordshire home, Amanda Feilding leads a group with the sort of academic and political clout that could see cannabis being legalised – and, crucially, regulated – in Britain

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill on Wednesday that will allow children access to edible medical marijuana products and removed the only state-imposed restriction on the number of medical cannabis strains grown by authorized...

The national Marijuana Policy Project, bolstered by federal approval of state pot-freedom laws, plans to put a Colorado-style legalization initiative...

AS MANY as 28 players on every club list could be hair-tested for drug use this off-season after changes to the league’s illicit drug code.

UN reports Afghanistan produced 1,400 tonnes of commercial cannabis resin in 2012, worth around $65m

The lease approved by the Middetown common council with Fairfield-based Greenbelt Management is contingent on the firm being awarded one of the three

Majority of Americans Now Support Legalizing and Regulating Marijuana like Alcohol Senator John McCain: “I Respect the Will of the People” On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a fir...

The debate over medical marijuana continued in Framingham Monday as the Planning Board worked to refine a bylaw regulating where facilities should be located in town.

Video on msnbc.com: MSNBC Analyst and Retired General Barry McCaffrey, Washington Post columnist Clinton Yates and Jamen Shively, a former Microsoft executive who is planning a national chain of marijuana stores, talk with MSNBC’s Craig Melvin...

Medical marijuana businesses obeying California law will continue to face U.S. Justice Department pressure after a last-minute effort to regulate the cannabis industry at the state level died last week.

Regulating medical marijuana — a drug that is illegal in federal eyes — isn't as easy as you might think.

.New Beckley Report   “In these times of economic crisis, it is essential to examine the possibilities of more cost-effective drug policy.”  ”Our present prohibitionist policies have proved to be a failure.” “Cannabis comprises 80% of all illicit ...

Report sets out potential cost savings and tax take from a regulated cannabis market in England and Wales

Napa and Sonoma have their wine tours, and travelers flock to Scotland to sample the fine single malt whiskies. But in Jamaica, farmers are offering a different kind of trip for a different type of connoisseur.

Although, the UN warning, Uruguay is going to be the first national legal market in the world that will legalize the production, sale and consumption of marijuana.

The government is set to seize control of a legalised marijuana industry, in an attempt to fight crime and improve the economy.

The DEA seized a decade-low amount of marijuana plants last year. So why are they still calling it a success?

Unknowns remain as Illinois' medical marijuana law draws closer to implementation.