The number of people approved to use medical marijuana in Illinois remains too low to sustain the industry, business owners said. Only about 100 more patients have been cleared in the past month to access medical pot, raising the statewide total to about 2,600, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported Wednesday. Read more »
Minnesota medical marijuana debuts July 1, and it’s unlike any other
ST. PAUL, Minn. — There will be no baggies of pot awaiting patients next week when Minnesota joins 21 other states in offering medical marijuana. No glass pipes, no plants to tend at home. Instead, the nation’s latest medical marijuana program is a world of pill bottles and vials of marijuana-infused oil. For the qualifying […]
Scientists Find We’ve Been Wrong About The Terms, “Indica” and “Sativa”
Indica, Sativa, Ruderalis – the classifications for the different types of marijuana were originally classified in the 1970’s. Now scientists are taking another look at the classification of the plants, and it seems that we may have been wrong about how we refer to these plants. Since the 1970s, cannabis has been divided into three […]
Vancouver Becomes First Canadian City To Regulate Medical Marijuana
Vancouver, Canada, became the first city in the country to regulate and license its booming medical marijuana industry on Wednesday, despite warnings from the federal government. After four nights of public hearings, the Vancouver City Council voted 8-3 in favor of a bylaw to control the “grey market” of marijuana dispensaries. While all marijuana is […]