Politics

COLUMBIA, S.C.  — A panel of South Carolina legislators voted Jan. 10, 2019, to advance a resolution urging Congress to open more research on medical uses for marijuana, taking another step toward loosening some of the state’s attitudes toward...

The cannabis industry collides with gritty true crime drama in the latest Netflix docu-series Murder Mountain. The 6-part series traces the case of a Southern Californian man who, like many others, has gone missing in Humboldt County. His last...

The legal cannabis market is exploding across the United States and is projected to have a nearly $40 billion economic output by 2021, according to an analysis by two cannabis research companies. Rural and rust belt communities that have suffered...

Thiel, the billionaire most well-known for being the co-founder of PayPal (PYPL) and the secretive big data unicorn Palantir, first invested in Privateer in 2014 through his Founders Fund. Investors had worried Privateer might start to dump its Tilray stock...

It should come as no surprise to anyone that infusing cannabis into exquisite culinary dishes would eventually occur and become, not necessarily fashionable, but an important mode of cannabis consumption. Cooking is an art—a sensuous, satiating enterprise, swirling in...

The green wave is already making splashes in red states this year, with marijuana legalization bills being introduced in at least six traditionally conservative states so far for 2019 sessions. Lawmakers in Kentucky and West Virginia put forward pieces of...

Medical marijuana patients generally have more faith in cannabis than the mainstream health care system — and that’s probably because they’ve found the plant more therapeutically effective compared to traditional pharmaceuticals — according to a new survey. Researchers distributed about...

Two state lawmakers in Tennessee announced on Thursday that they plan to introduce a comprehensive medical marijuana legalization bill. Sen. Janice Bowling and Rep. Ron Travis plan to introduce the bill in the coming weeks, according to media reports. Bowling said...

A new study released by the University of Michigan Addiction Center reports some troubling news about the state’s medical cannabis users. One in five participants said they had driven a car “very high” within the last half-year. “There is a...

DENVER — Denver became the latest city in the nation to take steps to eliminate low-level marijuana convictions in places where the drug is now legal, acknowledging the barriers that such offenses pose to minority, low-income and other people. Denver...