CLEAR LAKE, CA – AUGUST 7, 2014: Marijuana plants grow on a residential property in a vegetable garden in Lake County on August 7, 2014 in Clear Lake, California. Lake County just passed strict growing laws recently. But, activists are putting a new initiative on the ballot to allow marijuana farming. (Photo by Gina...

Soldiers stand in a marijuana plantation found during a reconnaissance mission in Michoacan state, Mexico. (Alexandre Meneghini/AP) Legal marijuana may be doing at least one thing that a decades-long drug war couldn’t: taking a bite out of Mexican drug cartels’ profits. The latest data from the U.S. Border Patrol shows...

NDP Leader Calls For Immediate Decriminalization of Marijuana CANNABIS CULTURE – NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair called on the Canadian government today to immediately decriminalize possession of marijuana. “I think we owe it to ourselves to be clear on this to make sure nobody ever again in Canada gets a criminal...

Licensed pot producers now face the risk of losing business to home growers who won’t have to deal with the same regulations. Canada’s nascent medical marijuana industry is being thrown into new turmoil by a court ruling that threatens to undercut its business model. Leading pot producers such as Canopy Growth Corp.,...

Saskatoon’s police chief says the Liberal government needs to clarify Canada’s marijuana laws to combat serious misunderstandings about the legality of the drug. “The police aren’t anti-marijuana,” Chief Clive Weighill said. “But we are in a situation right now that is a very grey zone.” Weighill...

SEATTLE, WA / ACCESSWIRE / February 5, 2016 / Canada already has about 40,000 medical cannabis patients in a market worth between $80 and $100 million, but if recreational marijuana becomes legal, the market could be worth upwards of $5 billion, according to Dundee Capital Markets analyst Aaron Salz. With Justin...

Tech Start-Ups Hope for Marijuana Sales Growth The start-up world can expect to see a different kind of green in the next few years if the marijuana business grows as rapidly as some expect. Legal marijuana sales grew to $5.4 billion in 2015, up from $4.6 billion in the prior year, and sales are expected to grow by...

Canada’s producers of medical marijuana are sitting on a seven-tonne stash of weed, with the inventory steadily growing as supply exceeds demand in the legal system, according to the most recent Health Canada numbers. Health Canada is currently studying 401 new applications for licences to produce cannabis for...

Since it’s 2016, Canadian marijuana policy is about to change. Yesterday’s users were delinquent outsiders. They apparently acted as criminal, conspiratorial spys, students and single mothers. They were immoral, indictable and illegal sitting targets. Tomorrow they will become moral, politically correct and...

VANCOUVER – Issues from increased funding to marijuana will be on the table when the provincial and territorial health ministers meet with their federal counterpart today in Vancouver. The ministers say they’ll be asking Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott to boost Ottawa’s share of health spending to at...