Politics

Arizona saw a 41 percent increase in medical marijuana sales in 2018, according to data released by the state Department of Health Services this week. In all, approximately 61 tons of cannabis products were sold by medical marijuana dispensaries in...

As the United States continues to grapple with cannabis legalization on the federal level, a number of companies in Canada are positioning themselves to succeed on a global scale. But few have managed to spread their roots like the...

This week marks three months of legalization in Canada, Bill Blair is gaslighting the cannabis industry, and Hamilton police invited local media to join to a dispensary raid, and more top headlines from across Canada. We’ve rounded up this week’s...

The US Virgin Islands this week became the latest US territory to greenlight medical cannabis, with Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. signing a legalization bill into law on Tuesday. It’s a change that’s been a long time coming. In 2014, 56.5%...

HBO's “High Maintenance” returns for its third season on Jan. 20, 2019, at 10:30 p.m. Unlike most marijuana-focused television shows, the cable series has gained critical acclaim for being a weed show that is actually good. Weedmaps News staff...

The connection between cannabis and yoga stretches back centuries. Hindu scriptures hold that Shiva, the third god in the Hindu triumvirate, ingested a cannabis-infused drink called bhang to focus inward and harness his divine powers. Shiva is also known...

CLEVELAND — One of the first people, if not the very first person, to purchase medical marijuana in Ohio on Jan. 16, 2019, thinks the much-anticipated opening of dispensaries is a “great day” for the state. “I think it's a...

Cannabis—like asparagus, dates, mulberry, ginkgo, persimmons, and spinach—is a dioecious species, meaning that the male and female reproductive structures involved in propagation are typically found on different individual plants, rather than on a single plant (as in a monoecious...

Following years of confusion, California finally clarified its stance on the legality of the delivery of cannabis. On Wednesday, January 16th, 2019, the California Bureau of Cannabis Control backed a rule that permits home cannabis deliveries. The regulation will...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called on the state legislature Thursday to repeal the ban on smokeable cannabis from the state’s medical marijuana statute. At a press conference in Winter Park, Florida, DeSantis said that the ban is not in...