Politics

JERUSALEM — Israel’s Parliament has unanimously approved a law to permit exports of medical marijuana, allowing Israel to tap the lucrative global cannabis market. Israel will become the third country, after the Netherlands and Canada, to take its medical cannabis...

While 2018 was a banner year for cannabis in the Empire State—in recent weeks both Governor Cuomo and New York CIty mayor Bill de Blasio announced their support of an adult-use market—CBD products remain the only recreationally available items...

Lanny Swerdlow is a registered nurse and legal nurse consultant. He is the founder and chairperson of the Brownie Mary Democrats of California which is one of seven statewide Democratic organizations chartered by the California Democratic Party and works...

The fast-growing CBD industry has a problem: It’s bedeviled by dangerous lookalike products and scary warnings from top medical journals and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Even as CBD enters the mainstream, enabled by the 2018 Farm Bill, the...

Over the past five years or so, Canadian healthcare workers have noticed an increase in so-called “cannabis-induced psychosis” among Canadians. According to data collected by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, 723 people across the country (excluding Ontario and...

by Nevada NORMLJanuary 2, 2019 With a new year on the horizon, members of Nevada and Las Vegas NORML wanted to take time to shine light on 18 of our most memorable moments from 2018. (It was hard to choose...

Cannabis culture has come a long way since the old days of Cheech & Chong, and with that, members of the community are ready to shed the myriad stereotypes that have been heaped cannabis consumers over the years. As times...

Ever heard of a tolerance break? What about cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome? Cannabis legalization is spreading across U.S. states, and there is no shortage of questions that people want answered. Practically speaking, cannabis consumption is likely to rise with the social...

Oregon could begin exporting cannabis to other states with legal pot by 2021 under a proposal being developed by state legislators and a cannabis industry trade group. Adam Smith, the executive director and founder of the Craft Cannabis Alliance,...

Ask any Garden State patient about their medical cannabis program and they’ll tell you it stinks. Medical cannabis is expensive and the rules governing the program are onerous and prohibitive. But relief is on the way. Earlier this year, the...