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The Missouri legislative session ended this week with the medical marijuana bill failing to get the needed approval, however that doesn't mean medical marijuana has no chance this year. Though legislators couldn't advance the bill, advocates have been hard at work obtaining over 300,000 signatures to bring a voter initiative to the ballot box in Missouri this ...

Over the last two years you may recall hearing about the medication called Epidiolex, and you'll likely begin hearing it's name a lot more as it gets closer and closer to becoming the first cannabis based FDA approved medication. From the beginning Epidiolex even had support from the FDA when they labelled the drug "fast track" in order to give ...

Illinois takes a step in the right direction this week as the state Senate overwhelmingly votes to allow medical marijuana patients under the age of 18 to take their medication while at school. Illinois law currently allows minors to access medical marijuana if two doctors agree that the illness qualifies, however that medical marijuana was still prohibited from ...

When a local government decides to decriminalize or stop prosecuting for personal possession marijuana offenses, they're taking a stand for human decency. Manhattan District Attorney announced this week that his office will stop taking on low level marijuana possession cases and instead local law enforcement will issue a summons rather than an arrest, fingerp...

Marijuana legalization is trending around the U.S. as more states than ever are legalizing or considering legalization in some forms in the near future. Some of these states are working to leglalize through legislation while others are going the more common route and letting the voters speak their mind through ballot initiatives. Michigan activists officially gathered...

New Jersey has made many positive changes since it's new governor took office including the medical marijuana program which is in the midst of adding new qualifications to help more patients. If Gov. Phil Murphy has his way the medical marijuana program will soon be available to patients with anxiety, migraines, Tourette's syndrome, and types of chronic pain. ...

It's hard to understand how there are two sides to debate when approving medical progress and a patient's well-being, but when it comes to people's predisposed negative ideas of cannabis some people refuse to see the positives. Indiana lawmakers have begun debates on the future of medical marijuana in the state and while most people are excited s...

When it comes to growing cannabis on a premium scale there exists the belief that a proper quality curing process, after it's done growing and is cut and trimmed, takes about 30-60 days to get the desired aroma and flavor profiles. But as the demand for high quality cannabis has increased exponentially since many states have begun legalizing cultivators have had t...

After a brief upset last month when the submission was rejected that would propose recreational legalization in ohio, a new and updated petition has been resubmitted in Ohio. The initial submission was rejected due to an insufficient summary, but now the new proposal titled, "Marijuana Rights and Regulations" has been submitted and accepted by the Ohio ...

Milwaukee residents might soon have their chance to say YES to legalizing recreational marijuana in Wisconsin after a county board unanimously approved a a proposal that would put the question on the November ballot. If enough voters say YES it would not immediately legalize cannabis but instead put it on the legislators to create a taxed and regulated market. While s...

It's probably easy to guess that there are more people using cannabis these days than ever before, but the suprising factor is that the generation leading that statistical change is the 50 and up crowd. Using the last 30 years of data on 40,000 people it seems that the age groups of 18-29, 30-39, and 40-49 all use cannabis at relatively the same rate as the s...

West Virginia lawmakers passed the state's medical marijuana program last year with the intention of it beginning summer 2019, but some details of the bill have to be changed to keep the ball rolling until then. As of now there seems to be no way for license applicants, patients, growers, dispensaries, to pay for their application to the state due to conflicts wit...