Tag Archives: Legislation

Medical Marijuana Laws Don’t Increase Crime, New Study Says

In the years since states started allowing patients to use medical marijuana, policymakers and researchers [...]

DEA Increases the Amount of Permissible Research on Cannabis

The DEA increased the amount of permissible research on Cannabis and says it will control [...]

Four states that have legal cannabis on the ballot this fall

The 2018 elections are less than three months away and cannabis policy reform is heavy [...]

World Health Organization Recommends Descheduling CBD

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that “preparations considered to be pure cannabidiol CBD should [...]

Employees Can Be Drug Tested Because They’re Marijuana Patients, Court Rules

A federal court just handed down a ruling in a recent New Jersey drug testing [...]

Workplace Deaths Drop After States Legalize Medical Marijuana

Workers appear to be safer in states that have legalized medical marijuana, according to a [...]

Cannabis Users Are Less Overweight Than Non-Users: A Study

New research challenges the munchies stereotype. If you were to guess based on stereotypes alone, [...]

Congressman Pushes Federal Employment Protections For Marijuana Consumers

By Kyle Jaeger Drug testing policies for federal employees have gone largely unchanged over the [...]

Colorado medical marijuana companies embroiled in federal patent dispute

A Colorado cannabis company has filed a patent-infringement lawsuit in Denver federal court claiming a [...]

Neighborhood Marijuana Dispensaries Don’t Increase Teen Use, Study Shows

Numerous states with medical marijuana laws on the books don’t allow dispensaries near school grounds, [...]

Border concerns have chilling effect on Canada’s marijuana industry

By Matt Lamers Reports that some Canadian cannabis professionals have been turned away while trying to enter [...]

Major Medical Cannabis Research Published in 2018

If you’ve read more than one of our articles, then you’ve probably seen the phrase [...]

Research Finds THC Also Effective At Controlling Epileptic Seizures

While CBD is the main ingredient in medicine for epileptic seizures a new study shows [...]

D.C. Has More Than 300 Synthetic Cannabis Overdoses in a Month

K2—or synthetic cannabis—hospitalizations are on the rise across the country. By MIROSLAV TOMOSKI A shocking number [...]

How Trump’s trade battles are affecting the marijuana industry

The Trump administration’s imposition of tariffs on China is expected to have a direct impact [...]