Most people in the world are familiar with Amsterdam's coffeeshop; where cannabis can be bought and smoked without fear of arrest (and if you don't you're on the right site!), however the same type of experience could soon be available in the USA.

In Alaska adult use of cannabis is already legal, the third state to do so. Alaskans 21 and older can possess up to one ounce of cannabis, grow up to six marijuana plants (with no more than three flowering), as well as being able to possess any amount of cannabis produced by those plants! This came into effect on February 24, 2015.

I arrived at my hotel, the Crowne Plaza, Denver, having just bought some “Grandpa” pot at LiveGreen Cannabis on Sheridan Boulevard. I was excited to get back to the hotel and smoke my old-guy weed by the pool, having read about the cool scene there. I imagined myself chilling under the stars, getting high with fellow travelers who were there to do the same.

As I walked into the lobby, I saw an employee; I pulled him aside and politely asked about the (wink wink) smoking situation. “Everyone smokes in the parking garage,” the employee told me. “The pool thing is a just a rumor.”

The gym rats who join the still-under-construction recreation centre in central Denver, Colo., will owe their workouts to weed smokers.

In Pueblo County, south of Denver, students will soon be able to walk to school on a sidewalk paid for by marijuana tax revenue, or apply to the world's first cannabis-funded scholarship program.

"We're taking dollars that were previously going to drug cartels in Mexico and using them to provide opportunity and education to the next generation," says Pueblo County Commissioner Sal Pace. Elected officials there recently approved the use of $2.5 million U.S. in pot taxes to fund a mix of community projects.

When we first tallied Colorado pot sales for 2014, the first full year of legal cannabis sales in the world mind you, $699,198,805 seemed like such a large number at the time.

DENVER — Standing in a retail marijuana dispensary Tuesday, amid cannabis-infused candy and big jars of “Sour Diesel” and “Bazooka Joe,” eight Massachusetts senators had some questions.

“If I were to buy this, what would I do with it? Do I crush it? Roll it? Do I —” asked Senator John F. Keenan, pointing to a jar with a potent-smelling strain, his voice trailing off as if he weren’t sure of the other options.

“Is this medicinal?” asked Senator Michael O. Moore, who then lifted up a jar filled with Purple Alien OG, smiling and posing for a photo on his phone.

Later Keenan, a 51-year-old Quincy Democrat who opposes legalization and says he has never used the drug, had another query for a store employee: “Do you sell” — he paused — “the balm?”

Well it’s much more potent than your typical pot for starters! Wax is vaporized or used for dabbingproviding a quicker, stronger and potentially more intense high.

Chandler Jones had a bad reaction to synthetic marijuana leading to his admittance to Norwood Hospital Sunday, a source familiar with the situation told the Globe Wednesday.

The source said Jones lives near the Foxborough police station and walked there to seek help after he had the reaction.

The source added that Jones was at the Patriots facility lifting weights at 6:30 a.m. Monday. The team had previously confirmed that Jones was on time for work that morning and hasn’t missed any meetings or practices.

Synthetic marijuana is known to be capable of causing extreme anxiety, altered perception, confusion, and paranoia, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PINEAPPLE EXPRESS, INC. (OTCPink:PNPL) (the “Company”), a publicly-traded company that offers cannabis industry consulting, technology, investments, turn-key property rentals, and branding concepts to businesses in the legal cannabis industry, announced today that after a 10 month registration process, the state of Illinois granted the Company’s consulting client Nature’s Treatment of Illinois, Inc. (“NTI”) a Notice of Conditional Approval regarding its dispensing organization application for registration.  NTI was awarded one of only approximately 60 dispensary conditional registration approvals in Illinois.  The dispensary will be the only one in Illinois’ District 7.

Millions of people around the world are familiar with the hypnotic rhythms of reggae that originated from Jamaica, a small colonial island in the Caribbean Sea. Reggae is what propelled the ideology of Rastafari to the world through the melodious, socially conscious tunes of Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Dennis Brown, Jacob Miller, and Peter Tosh. Jamaican culture is most commonly described as rooted in Africa because the majority of the population is of African descent. However, a deeper analysis will find that the Hindu culture has had an immense, largely unacknowledged influence on Jamaican culture and the early stages of Rastafari.