Usage of marijuana has been doubled over the past years as laws and attitudes toward the drug dramatically transformed.  Entrepreneurs of marijuana will choose their ambassadors to be users to relate the benefits of their products to customers.

Marijuana consumption increased among all groups studied, but researchers noted certain rise in women, Black or Hispanic individuals living in the South.  These people are older or in their middle ages, according to CBS News.

DENVER, Colorado, (WDTN) – In one week, Ohio decides on whether to legalize marijuana and many questions remain.

One of those questions, how legalizing the drug and putting it and other pot products on store shelves would affect young people. 2 NEWS Investigates traveled to Colorado, where marijuana is legal, to find out how they dealt with it.

Marijuana is not just in plant form anymore. You can find pot cookies, marijuana chips and hard candy with THC in it. For stores, it’s more variety for their customers, but for some parents it’s a drug targeting kids.

A recent visitor from California was astounded at the cloak and dagger nature of cannabis consumption in New Zealand.

Under California State law she, a retired health professional, can openly grow her own medicinal marijuana (strictly for personal use) in the garden along with her roses and courgettes, or buy it from licensed dispensers.

The law takes the drama out of the situation by giving patients with doctors' recommendations safe access without risking arrest. Qualifying conditions include anorexia, arthritis, cancer, HIV/AIDs, glaucoma, migraine, muscle spasms, severe nausea, seizures and any debilitating condition where the use of cannabis has been deemed appropriate.

Though sometimes reluctantly, Denver is viewed as a trendsetter around the world thanks to being the first major city to regulate legal marijuana.

The City of Denver is ready to officially share its marijuana experiences with politicians and regulators from around the world next week, as it hosts the Denver Marijuana Management Symposium at the Colorado Convention Center on Thursday, November 5 and Friday, November 6.

And that's not the only marijuana education in this week's Cannabis Calendar. 

With Halloween just around the corner, it’s time for scary news reports that begin, “With Halloween just around the corner…” This genre of yellow journalism often features warnings about tainted trick-or-treat candy, a mythical menace that in recent years has gained credibility thanks to the popularity of  marijuana edibles in states where such products are legal.

Portland’s recreational marijuana market is off to a quick start—the industry reported more than $11 million in sales during the first week alone. With that increase in Portlanders toking up comes renewed concerns about the health risks, and benefits, associated with the cannabis plant.

Otis Brawley, the chief medical officer at the American Cancer Society, told GoLocal that while there are serious health risks that arise when the cannabis plant is smoked, there are also medicinal benefits to using marijuana in other forms.

The campaign trail saw Justin Trudeau promise to legalize and regulate marijuana.

Now, with a Liberal majority, those in the medicinal pot industry are hoping Tudeau will turn his promise into a reality.

In Vernon, Selen Wong heads the online compassion club The Flower of Life. She's is excited to see what happens and what that will mean for her clients.

“For us, we are going to be able to provide access to legitimate medical cannabis users in a way that is even more safe and regulated than what is currently being provided,” says Wong.

However, for the clients of a downtown Vernon medical marijuana dispensary, there are a number of concerns they would like answered.

A helicopter pilot who once worked for Rega, the Swiss emergency rescue service, has been arrested in Spain along with his Swiss co-pilot after being caught in a chopper with 600 kilograms of cannabis, according to media reports.

The 68-year-old pilot, a Frenchman who lives in Basel, is being detained in prison along with 14 other people after Spanish narcotics police busted two drug smuggling rings in the Malaga region, the Blick newspaper reported online on Monday.

BOSTON/SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Two groups that had backed competing ballot initiatives to make recreational use of marijuana legal in Maine agreed on Monday to join forces on one measure to put before voters in 2016.

The state is one of six where competing pro-marijuana groups hope to hold referendums on marijuana legalization in 2016, following 2012 votes that legalized the drug in Colorado and Oregon. Attitudes about marijuana in the United States have changed markedly since then, as voters in Washington, Alaska and the District of Columbia have followed suit. Voters in Ohio will weigh in on legalization next month.

Thanks to polymath and biopic-waiting-to-happen, Richard Branson, we know that, this week, the UN were in the final stages of preparing a call for the global decriminalisation of drugs. According to their report, evidence suggests decriminalisation would reduce the number of drug-related deaths without increasing incidents of drug abuse. As such, the Office of Drugs and Crime suggest governments have a duty to change policy to suit the best interests of their citizens.

So far, so sensible.