Cannabis Hemp News

Patients who use medical marijuana for pain and other chronic symptoms can take an unwanted hit: Insurers don't cover the treatment, which costs as much as $1,000 a month. Once the drug of choice for hippies ... View the full article

SAN DIEGO -- Medical Marijuana, Inc. (OTC Pink:MJNA) is pleased to announce that executives from two of its subsidiaries have been recognized as Board of Director nominees by the National Cannabis Industry ... View the full article

Police are looking for three men caught on surveillance video stealing marijuana plants from a Denver grow house. The men took 25 mature plants, estimated to be worth about $13,000, during the April 23 ... View the full article

Colorado lawmakers have approved the world's first financial system for the marijuana industry, a network of uninsured cooperatives designed to give pot businesses a way to access basic banking services. ... View the full article

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - The Colorado legislature on Wednesday voted to create the nation's first state-run financial cooperative for marijuana sellers, with the aim of giving newly legalized cannabis retail outlets access to key banking services through the U.S. Federal Reserve. The approval of the so-called \"cannabis credit co-ops\" came on the final day of the legislative session ... View the full article

Colorado lawmakers approved the world's first financial system for the marijuana industry Wednesday, a network of uninsured co-operatives designed to give pot businesses a way to access basic banking services. The plan seeks to move the marijuana industry away from its cash-only roots. Banks routinely reject pot businesses for even basic services such as checking accounts because they fear ... View the full article

A Christchurch judge has refused to grant bail to two men accused of robbing a Linwood R18 store last night just 40 minutes before synthetic cannabis became illegal. View the full article

By Malena Castaldi MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguayans will be allowed to buy enough marijuana to roll about 20 joints a week at a price well below the black market rate, the government said on Tuesday as it detailed a new law legalizing the cannabis trade. Congress in December approved a law allowing the cultivation and sale of marijuana, making Uruguay the first country to do so, with the aim of ... View the full article

Vancouver is a town that doesn't mind hewing to stereotypes. It doesn't worry if people think it's all beaches, mountains, golfing and skiing. The whole laid-back vibe. So no one's going to blink when they hear the city has what's … Continue reading → View the full article

VANCOUVER - It wasn't the usual Vancouver gathering of pot enthusiasts — in fact not even a whiff of marijuana smoke could be detected at the GreenRush Financial Conference covering the budding business ... View the full article

Tunisia's tough law on cannabis use, laying down jail terms of at least one year, is "destroying lives" and overcrowding prisons, according to a group of activists urging reform. It has failed," said the group, named Al Sajin 52 (or Prisoner 52) as the law is called. As a result, more than half of the 13,000 people in pre-trial detention, and around one third of Tunisia's 11,000 convicts were ... View the full article

SAN DIEGO -- Kannaway, LLC ("Kannaway"), the first network marketing company to distribute cannabidiol (CBD)-rich hemp oil products in the US, is proud to announce that the Company's "back ... View the full article

New Zealand on Wednesday reversed course on allowing some designer drugs to be legally sold after a public outcry about the toll they were taking. A law change effective Thursday will ban the sale and ... View the full article

Canada has followed in the footsteps of the US and switched on its first marijuana vending machine. The device, which sells medical cannabis, has been installed at dispensary BC Pain Society in Vancouver. It comes one month after Colorado installed a similar machine. Although the market for medical cannabis users in Canada remains small - just 37,000 people are permitted to purchase the drug ... View the full article

President Jose Mujica signed the long-awaited rules for Uruguay's legal pot marketplace Tuesday, launching a rollout that should stock pharmacies with government-approved marijuana cigarettes for sale ... View the full article