Health & Medicine
Sativa, Indica, or Hybrid? Cannabis Genome Project Hopes to Improve Hazy Labeling
Consumers have a bud to grind with today’s strains. With curiously unhelpful strain names like Trainweck, Pineapple Express, AK-47, Chemdawg, and Black Mamba, all prominently placed on collective shelves from coast-to-coast, patients and recreational smokers alike are hopeful that a new marijuana genome project will spark a greater understanding of the hidden genetics within today’s […]
Cannabis as Totem and Connector: An Interview with Allison Ray Benavides
Allison Ray Benavides is a forty-year old mother of two little boys and lives with her husband Rob in San Diego County. Robbie is their oldest son, now aged six, and Oscar their youngest at three years old. Rob is a renowned tattoo artist, and Allison wears his art all over her body. Tall and graceful, she […]
Medical Marijuana Gains Momentum in US Senate
Pressure is mounting on U.S. Senate leadership to address the growing gap between state medical marijuana policies and federal law. Last week, former Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC) co-sponsored the Compassionate Access, Research Expansion and Respect States (CARERS) Act, a comprehensive bill aimed at easing the implementation of state medical marijuana programs. And on Monday, […]
Ohio Attorney General Rejects Medical Marijuana Ballot Language
Efforts to put a medical marijuana measure on Ohio’s November ballot hit a snag Friday when Attorney General Mike DeWine ruled that a summary of the initiative provided by advocates is not fair and truthful. “There are a number of discrepancies between the summary and the proposed amendment,” DeWine wrote in a letter to Rob […]
Canadian Judge Rules in Favor Of Medical Marijuana Patients Right To Grow Their Own Medicine
Informing Justin Trudeau’s newly elected government that Canada’s ban on patients cultivating their own medical marijuana constituted an infringement on their rights, a federal judge in the Great White North has smacked down the loathsome regulations restricting the rights of patients to cultivate their own medicine. Per CBC News: In a ruling out of Vancouver on […]
Utah Lawmakers Consider Two Medical Marijuana Bills As Poll Shows 64% Approval For Medicinal Cannabis
As the newest poll demonstrates, there’s strong support for medical marijuana in the sometimes-regressive state of Utah, which has inspired a sense of vagrant optimism as politicians prepare for a critical vote today. Up for consideration are two competing medical marijuana proposals – including one that was trounced by the Mormon Church the moment it […]
Hybrid News: High Desert Town Goes From Prisons to Pot, Marijuana Found Innocent of Causing Anxiety or Depression
Helping to send real estate prices into the stratosphere in California’s high desert, the tiny town of Adelanto is hoping to enhance their prison-based economy with one supported by the cultivation of medical marijuana. And proving what most knew instinctively, new research published on Wednesday by JAMA established no cause-and-effect between the adult use of […]
Colorado Marijuana Businesses Respond to Concern Over Edibles and Kids
One of marijuana legalization opponents’ top talking points these days centers around what they see as the attractiveness of cannabis edibles to underage kids. Now, one group of Colorado marijuana businesses is taking action that could help take that argument off the table. The Colorado Cannabis Chamber of Commerce (C4) announced on Wednesday that its […]
Senate Bill 181: New Legislation Seeks to Allow Cannabis Oil for Children In Delaware Schools
Understanding that epileptic seizures in children don’t necessarily happen when it’s convenient. A newly introduced piece of legislation, Delaware’s Senate bill 181, would allow schools in the Small Wonder state to keep on hand and permit the administration of cannabis oil for those students in need. If passed, Senate Bill 181 would permit authorized caregivers to […]
Rhode Island Governor Wants to Tax Medical Marijuana Patients’ Plants
The governor of the the nation’s smallest state wants to raise a big chunk of revenue by taxing medical marijuana cultivation, including plants grown by individual patients for themselves. In a Fiscal Year 2017 budget released Tuesday night, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo (D) proposes making the Ocean State the first in the nation to levy […]