Statistically speaking, senior citizens are the most likely demographic to oppose marijuana reform. That’s a big problem when you also consider the fact that senior citizens vote at a higher rate than anyone else. Whenever I look at polling for certain campaign efforts, I always look at the senior citizen polling first. I always sit and daydream about how easy it would be to end marijuana prohibition in state after state if the marijuana reform movement was able to get even a small percentage of those ‘no’ senior citizen voters to change to the ‘yes’ side.

Police chiefs’ study draws link between drug cultivation, modern slavery and people living illegally in UK

There is a continued link between the commercial cultivation of cannabis, modern slavery and people living without legal permission to remain in the UK, according to a new report by the National Police Chiefs’ Council.

The report, based on three years of data from police forces across the country, also shows that commercial cultivation is being used as a means to fund other criminal activity, including distribution of class A drugs and money laundering.

Ministry of Justice will be able to detect prisoners using the synethic drug from early next year

Newcastle's leading addiction specialist has been appointed to the state government's Medicinal Cannabis Advisory Council.

Doctors, academics and patient welfare advocates have been appointed to a special advisory council to guide the NSW Government's medicinal cannabis research program. 

Among the nine member board is Newcastle associate professor Adrian Dunlop. 

Professor has over 20 years experience as an addiction clinician and currently serves as the Addiction Medicine Senior Staff Specialist with Hunter New England Health. 

Other members of the board include, Professor Richard Day AM, Dr Bronwyn Evans, Mrs Lucy Haslam, Professor Alison Jones, Professor Graham King, Professor Laurent Rivory, Dr Saxon Smith and Dr Kendra Sundquist. 

CASPER, Wyo. — Infighting within a group pursuing a medical marijuana ballot initiative in Wyoming could make the daunting process of gathering enough signatures this winter even more difficult, with the group's newly resigned executive director saying the effort is already in jeopardy.

On Sunday, Jackson resident Chris Christian quit the Wyoming chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, which has been working on legalization issues for years and hired an attorney to draft the Peggy A. Kelley Wyoming Cannabis Act of 2016.

In addition to medical marijuana, the proposal would legalize industrial hemp.

“Taking this on was like herding jackrabbits uphill in a snowstorm,” Christian said Monday.

BOCA RATON, Fla. —Now that the state of Florida has chosen five nurseries to begin growing and distributing a weak form of marijuana, patients are counting the days until they can use it.

Joey Jones, of Boca Raton, just underwent his second surgery for brain cancer. His surgeries were in California were he said he used medical marijuana to ease his pain and help his appetite.

"It's also controlled my seizures, too, which is a huge part," Jones said. "I only had one seizure which revealed my tumor and I haven't had any seizures since."

Jones recently moved to Florida so his family can help him recover.

Uttarakhand government's decision to allow farmers to cultivation of hemp plants is the first of its kind in India.

Farmers from across the state except Terai and Bhabhar regions can now legally grow hemp. While in countries like the US, many states have legalised the cultivation of cannabis for smoking purpose, in Uttarakhand the permission is only for industrial purpose. Farmers will have to get a licence by the excise department to grow cannabis. 

Hemp with a tetra hydro cannabinol (THC) content of 0.3 to 1.5 percent can be used for industrial purposes like in the manufacturing of fibre.

Jamaica’s Health Minister invited attendees to visit his country to enjoy cannabis tourism, a Town Hall linked “Black Lives Matter” shootings to the Drug War and a review of rapid advances in psychedelic therapies were but three moments that show the diversity of presentations at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference Nov. 18-21, 2015.

A Senate panel this week will take up a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to use medical marijuana, as lawmakers continue to grapple with whether to go beyond a 2014 law that approved a limited form of cannabis.