Cannabis Hemp News

By Barbara Liston ORLANDO Fla. (Reuters) - Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Florida congresswoman who heads the U.S. Democratic National Committee, is coming under criticism in her home state from medical marijuana supporters and a top party donor who fault her stance on the issue. Wasserman Schultz drew their ire by expressing concern over a November ballot initiative in Florida on permitting ... View the full article

SAN DIEGO -- Medical Marijuana Inc. (OTC Pink:MJNA) is pleased to announce that its subsidiary company, HempMeds, was the platinum sponsor of the Chicago Cannabis Conference in Chicago, Illinois June ... View the full article

Bhubaneswar, June 10 (IANS) Four people were arrested Tuesday in Odisha's Koraput district with 654 kg of cannabis, a police official said. View the full article

Colorado's marijuana market boomed in April as tens of thousands celebrated the once-underground 4/20 pot holiday. Tax collections released Monday showed that Colorado sold about $22 million worth of recreational ... View the full article

Fampyra and sativex have been licenced in recent years to help people who experience mobility problems and muscle spasms. However, the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (Nice) is due to reject the drugs as treatments for MS, with experts saying they are not cost-effective. In a letter to the Daily Telegraph, a group of experts including the head of the MS Society and seven ... View the full article

Las Vegas -- Terra Tech Corp (TRTC)(the "Company"), a hydroponic company focused on sustainably grown produce and medical cannabis cultivation technology announces Clark County preliminary dispensary ... View the full article

ST. PETERSBURG, FL -- FutureWorld (OTCQB: FWDG) announces today that it has signed a preliminary agreement with American Green in the distribution of its ZaZZZ robotic dispensaries nationwide under the ... View the full article

Moroccan police have seized nearly 30 tonnes of hashish in Casablanca, one of the largest busts in the major cannabis exporting country in years, local media reported on Monday. Two separate busts took place, with police raiding a warehouse in the port city on Saturday and seizing 12 tonnes of the drug, known locally as "chira", Moroccan daily Annass reported. The raid followed the discovery on ... View the full article

The US Drug Enforcement Administration has threatened to revoke the prescription licences of doctors linked with medical marijuana dispensaries. Agents told doctors that they were acting on federal law, which bans marijuana, in making the ultimatums, despite Massachusetts having legalised marijuana for medical use in a 2012 vote. Doctors said that they have been forced to sever ties with medical ... View the full article

By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - A truck made to resemble a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service vehicle that contained $1.6 million worth of marijuana has been seized by Border Patrol agents in Arizona near the Mexican border, authorities said on Wednesday. Authorities said the truck, toting a flatbed trailer, was found by agents on Monday in the southern Arizona city of Douglas with more ... View the full article

By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico and the United States cannot pursue diverging policies on marijuana legalization, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto was quoted as saying on Sunday, hinting he may be open to following the lead taken by some U.S. states in changing drug laws. Political pressure has grown in Mexico to take a more liberal stance on marijuana since Washington and ... View the full article

Two males were arrested, and one has been released without charge. View the full article

STERLING, Colo. - Marijuana's square cousin, industrial hemp, has come out of the black market and is now legal for farmers to cultivate, opening up a new lucrative market. That was the idea, anyway. View the full article

A growing number of Americans are feeding their pets hemp-based kibble. It's not the kind of pot Snoop Dogg smokes. But the regulations are fuzzy. View the full article