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Colorado already is being sued by two neighboring states for legalizing marijuana. Now, the state faces an additional federal lawsuit from its own citizens. Plaintiffs who oppose legal pot are appealing ... View the full article

Weldon Angelos was just 24 years old when he was sentenced to 55 years in federal prison for three marijuana sales. View the full article

NEW YORK -- AXIM Biotechnologies, Inc. (OTC:AXIM), an industry leader in cannabinoid research and industrial hemp product development, is proud to announce that it has plans to revitalize the cosmetics ... View the full article

AN epileptic boy turned blue and nearly died after his medical marijuana supply ran out. Cooper Wallace’s parents are desperately urging the Government to fast-track legalising the drug. View the full article

A 20-month-old child suffered an overdose linked to marijuana-laced cookies, RCMP in Swift Current, Sask. say. According to RCMP, toxicology tests revealed a high level of marijuana in the boy’s blood. With further investigation, they learned the child's father had made a batch of cookies with marijuana in them. In a statement about the case, RCMP said the child was "given access to the cookies ... View the full article

BIG PLANS: Oakenden cane grower Joe Muscat, who has studied fibre crops since 2002, is looking into the potential of new markets. Contributed View the full article

Marijuana should be decriminalized in New Jersey because existing laws waste police resources, unfairly target minorities and leave millions of dollars in potential tax revenue unrealized by relegating ... View the full article

Todd Mitchem pitches his pot start-up to angel investor Alicia Syrett, Canopy Boulder co-founder Patrick Rea, and Cheryl Shuman, the "Martha Stewart of Marijuana." View the full article

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- mCig® Inc. , a leading provider of advanced technologies and solutions to the global cannabis industry, is announcing the appointment of noted Industrial Hemp Consultant Joe ... View the full article

By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - If recent laws legalizing marijuana in more U.S. states also boost sales of potato chips and brownies, scientists will know why: A study in mice published on Wednesday found, unexpectedly, that the active ingredients in pot essentially make appetite-curbing regions of the brain reverse functions. When that happens, neurons that ordinarily transmit a signal ... View the full article

Washington, Feb 18 (ANI): Jane Fonda has admitted to smoking marijuana "every now and then," but says it often clouds her judgement. The 77-year-old actress added that she cannot see a movie on pot. View the full article

A worker has been accused of possessing 39.5g of marijuana that he hid under his clothes and tried to sell to an informant for Dh1,500. Drug enforcement officers were said to have arrested the 42-year-old Bangladeshi worker, B.S., in possession of 66 pouches containing marijuana during a sting operation beside a mosque in Al Quoz. When asked if he could afford a lawyer, the suspect told ... View the full article

A CANNABIS crop comprising more than 700 plants has been unearthed in a shed in the Macedon Ranges. View the full article

WILMINGTON, Del. -- Redux Holdings, Inc. (OTC:RDXH) is proud to announce the complete acquisition of the A3 Vertical System. View the full article

One in four cases of psychosis in Britain is associated with powerful strains of cannabis such as "skunk", a study has found. Casual users of the stronger variants of the class B substance have been found to be three times more likely to develop psychosis, while heavy users are five times more likely. The findings of the six-year study - which have been published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal ... View the full article