Rastafari Rootzfest Hosts High Times 2015 Jamaican World Cannabis Cup is a celebration of the freedom of Rastafari to practice their beliefs and to use ganja as a sacrament. Rastafari Rootzfest is a celebration of the small farmers who persisted in growing ganja in Jamaica through years of persecution. Rastafari Rootzfest is an opportunity to celebrate the heroes of the legalization movement who fought for amendments to Jamaica’s legislation recently passed in Parliament.  Rastafari Rootzfest, as the first sanctioned “exempt” event for Rastafari, is an opportunity to communicate the message of Rastafari and grassroots people to guests of the festival and to the world.  All attendees of the event must be 18 years and older to enter and ID will be required.

Washington is one of only four states in the country where recreational marijuana use is legal.

It seems like a long shot here in Georgia as the state continues to figure out the medical side of the issue.  But our exclusive 11Alive statewide poll tells us it may not be that far off.

According to the poll, 45-percent of people believe it should be legal, while 46-percent do not, so it's basically a dead heat.

During his trip to Washington, 11Alive’s Chris Hopper was told by people inside the industry that once medical works, recreational will soon follow.

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A retired top cop, the Government’s former chief drugs adviser and a police and crime commissioner are among a growing number of respected professionals joining stoners to call for a change in the law.

They claim the UK is wasting £500million a year and scant police resources on a “war on drugs” it CAN’T WIN and targeting patients and pot-heads alike for something 60% of young people have at least tried.

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More than 16,000 people have signed a petition demanding that the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) be fired for calling medical marijuana a "joke" last week.

"What really bothers me is the notion that marijuana is also medicinal — because it's not," DEA Administrator Chuck Rosenberg said during a press briefing on November 4. "We can have an intellectually honest debate about whether we should legalize something that is bad and dangerous, but don't call it medicine — that is a joke."

South Carolina could be among the next states to legalize medical marijuana in the coming year after a state Senate subcommittee passed an initial bill on Sept. 24 allowing qualified patients to possess limited amounts of the drug.

San Francisco is feeling the Bern is more ways than one this November.

Billboard Top 10 Hip-Hop star and marijuana business mogul, Berner, debuts a documentary film on the origin of the blockbuster cannabis strain ‘Cookies’ to a live crowd of 1,000 technologists, venture capitalists, media and cannabis entrepreneurs November 21 in downtown San Francisco.

Berner is shopping an Anthony Bourdain-style cannabis travelog series called “Marijuana Mania”, to CEOs from tech, venture capital, media and cannabis at the New West Summit at the Parc 55 hotel next week. Smell the Truth is a media sponsor of New West.

Forgive me if I’m skeptical when I hear about celebrity weed brands. From reality TV star Bethany Frankel’s Skinnygirl munchie-free weed to country legend Willie Nelson creating a chain of Willie’s Reserve dispensaries (and his general ambivalence over what different types of pot even are) to musician Melissa Etheridge’s canna-Cabernet, it feels like I’ve heard it all.

A street drug made of various chemicals sprayed on tea leaves, grass clippings and other plant material continues to send thousands of people suffering from psychotic episodes and seizures to emergency rooms around the country.

In 2015, calls to poison control regarding the drug already have almost doubled, compared to last year's total, and health professionals and lawmakers are struggling to keep up with the problem.

Some call the drug K2, or spice. It's also widely known as "synthetic marijuana," because the key chemicals in the spray are often man-made versions of cannabinoids, a family of psychoactive substances found in marijuana.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 11, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson, the estate of Bob Marley, and Wiz Khalifa are all making moves in legal cannabis. But one entertainer is already the major big player. Billboard Top 10 Hip-Hop star and marijuana business mogul, Berner, has disclosed his pot-related projects gross $10 million per year.