In-Depth Marijuana Industry News and More
October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month. If you’re reading this, chances are you, a loved one, or someone you know, is living with a breast cancer diagnosis. Studies show that American women have a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer over their lifetime. According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), […]
A quarantine was ordered for most marijuana vaping products in Massachusetts Tuesday, extending the state’s efforts to control vaping products amid a nationwide epidemic of lung injuries. Exempt from the quarantine are medical marijuana products designed specifically for devices for medical marijuana flower vaping, the state Cannabis Control Commission said. Massachusetts’ ban on vape-related products […]
One of the 17 states that has yet to legalize recreational or medicinal marijuana is the site of some of the most Drug Enforcement Administration raids in the country. Last year, DEA officials seized and destroyed 418,076 cannabis plants in Kentucky. But where Kentucky really stood out was the proportion of those plants to the […]
Proposed changes to the state’s medical marijuana program are drawing fire from a number of patients and caregivers. The new rules are being drafted by the state’s Office of Marijuana Policy. The regulations will require caregivers who grow cannabis for patients, to enroll in a state inventory program that will track marijuana from seed to […]
For some people with mental illness, prescription medications like SSRIs can be a lifeline. For others, the mixture of chemicals in the system ends in disaster, and that’s why many are now ‘self-medicating’ with CBD. Some people will take whatever their doctor or specialist gives them. Then, there are those who stay away from psychotropic […]
With pruning shears in hand and a laundry hamper on her hip, Khadijah Tribble roamed rows of waist-high cannabis in search of the perfect hemp plant – robust foliage, no bugs, and enough flowers to make CBD lotions and tinctures for the elders in her church community. The community activist made the six-hour, 300-mile round […]
Tucked away in the quiet English countryside on more than 47 acres, GW Pharmaceuticals is doing something no other drug company can do: produce the only cannabis-based medication ever approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. That drug, a treatment for two rare types of epilepsy, inspired researchers to consider […]
According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly four out of five people hospitalized from vaping-related lung illnesses were using bootleg THC cartridges. More specifically, 77 percent of 514 patients used a product that contained THC, either alone or combined with nicotine. Another 16 percent said they used […]
For years, marijuana stocks have been virtually unstoppable, and investors who had the stomach and wherewithal to stick with the still-nascent industry were handsomely rewarded. However, the past six months have not been kind to cannabis stocks. Since the end of March, and through the previous weekend, the Horizons Marijuana Life Sciences ETF, the first […]
Cannabis has shown promise for relieving Alzheimer’s Disease, chronic pain, poor appetites, and other issues that affect seniors. The older we get, the more demands and care our bodies require. One estimate claims that by the year 2030, the current statistics on senior diseases will be doubled, resulting in 15 million adults that will suffer […]
In case you haven’t noticed, the cannabis industry has been all the buzz on Wall Street for the past couple of years. And it’s not hard to understand why if you dig into the potential of legal cannabis. According to the State of the Legal Cannabis Markets report, released by Arcview Market Research and BDS […]
Jamie Evans is the founder of The Herb Somm, a cannabis blog and lifestyle brand that is focused on the gourmet side of the industry. She is an educator, event host and producer, as well as a writer who specializes in cannabis, CBD, food, recipes, wine, and the canna-culinary world. As a well-known CBD and cannabis […]
Medical marijuana patients have complained about difficulty buying a variety of medical products since recreational sales started almost a year ago. Some dispensaries are now placing the blame partly on state rules related to the computer system that tracks marijuana inventory. “It became a bit more of a headache and a bit more of work […]
Is this the writing on the wall? In what looks to be the biggest step forward toward the ultimate legalization of marijuana on the federal level, the U.S. House of Representatives just passed the Secure and Fair Enforcement Act, or SAFE Banking Act, a critical step toward clearing the way for cannabis-related businesses to operate […]
Malta announced its plans to gain footing in the pot industry and is aiming to ship out about $1.4 billion worth of medical cannabis products by 2023. At the tail end of his visit to Canada and the U.S., Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat told Television Malta (TVM), “Exportation will begin in the first quarter […]
2019 has the potential to be remembered as the year when minor cannabinoids really hit the scene. While it’s true that the cannabis market is generally interested in tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the intoxicating cannabinoid that most marijuana consumers have come to know and love; as well as cannabidiol (CBD); but cannabinoids such as cannabinol (CBN), tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCA), along […]
Perth, Australia is the location of a big clinical study that aims to prove whether cannabis can treat Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Research on the potential of cannabis to treat a variety of conditions, including dementia, is lacking, prompting scientists at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Health Research in Perth, Australia, […]
Jamaica is looking to gain a competitive edge in the worldwide cannabis market by partnering with the American Harvard International Phytomedicines and Medical Cannabis Institute (HIPI). Jamaican minister Audley Shaw has announced the island’s Ministry of Industry, Commerce Agriculture and Fisheries will team with HIPI to focus on developing various initiatives intended to provide Jamaica […]
Tennessee legislators can’t get medical marijuana legislation passed to save their lives, but the state’s Bureau of Investigation has announced a new policy that may make it easier on cannabis consumers. The agency will stop testing quantities of marijuana that are under half an ounce. The shift will supposedly make it prohibitively difficult for prosecutors […]
In the first few days of the four-month ban on all vaping products in Massachusetts, Laura Lee Medeiros, a medical marijuana patient, began to worry. An employee puts down an eighth of an ounce marijuana after letting a customer smell it outside the Magnolia cannabis lounge in Oakland, California, U.S. April 20, 2018. The 32-year-old […]
