• Michael Straumietis is the CEO of agricultural firm Advanced Nutrients 
• They develop marijuana-specific nutrients and supplements 
• The 6ft 7in businessman has created a global empire with his products
• Flaunts trips to drug conferences with a harem of women on social media
• He has had brushes with federal agencies including the DEA  

Marijuana laws are relaxing in states across the country.

With it, those involved in the controversial business are becoming more care free.

And one entrepreneur is on his way to becoming the new King of Instagram with wild social media postings of scantily-clad ladies, private jets, and cannabis.

Plants seized from farmer's fields were determined to be hemp, not marijuana. (RCMP)

Plants discovered in several farm fields in P.E.I. in late July are hemp, not marijuana say RCMP.

Cpl. Andy Cook of the Prince District Drug Unit said lab tests showed the plants had a low level of THC in them, which is the active ingredient in marijuana.

"They exhibited some signs that were also consistent with marijuana plants, so in the interest of determining definitively what we were dealing with we had them sent away and had a quantitative analysis done which showed the level of THC in them," said Corporal Andy Cook, who is in charge of the Prince District Drug Unit.

TORONTO, Sept. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- "I'm desperate for a solution to my arthritis pain and decided medical cannabis might be right for me," says Rachel Janzen, 31, of Kingsville, Ont. "I decided to take it upon myself to explore cannabis because, with a full life ahead of me, I need to manage what is sometimes debilitating pain."

The new American dream of getting rich off marijuana and spending your days exclusively with beautiful women has been reached… by amotherf*cking Canadian.

The man dubbed the “Dan Bilzerian of weed” is the latest viral sensation giving us new life goals and making us completely sick by swagging off on another level.

Not only does he look like DDP, but he has an unlimited supply of loud, a private jet to transport a bunch of edgy girls and access to things your average stoner could only dream of.

He simply goes by the name of Marijuana Don, or Big Mike, and according to his Instagram,

A contribution from the New Zealand Drug Foundation

In 2013, Professor Wayne Hall presented a paper at an International Cannabis Policy Symposium hosted by the New Zealand Drug Foundation in Auckland. It was a review into 20 years of existing research into cannabis titled "What has research over the past two decades revealed about the adverse health effects of recreational cannabis use?".

So far, so uncontroversial. 

SMITHS FALLS, Ont. — Tweed Marijuana Inc. is reporting its first profitable quarter since receiving a federal licence to produce and sell medical cannabis.

The Ontario-based company, the first marijuana manufacturer in Canada to be publicly traded, earned a net profit of $1 million or two cents per share in the three months ended June 30. A year earlier, it had a net loss of $1.16 million or three cents per share.

Revenue for the first quarter of its financial year was $1.7 million, up 39 per cent from the previous quarter and nine times the less than $189,000 achieved a year ago, when commercial shipments began.

It has been farmed for over 6000 years, it was used by Queen Victoria, George Washington, Joan of Arc, Ramesses II and possibly Shakespeare - yet how much do we really know about the history of dagga?

Not much according to research published in the free online journal PloS One, which says "due to restrictions on scientific inquiry brought about by drug policy, the evolutionary and domestication history of Cannabis remains poorly understood."

In order to correct this, the University of British Colombia performed the first large scale genetic study of Marijuana and hemp.

Canada is the world's leader in the production of hemp.

Mettrum Begins Cannabis Extracts Production

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Aug. 31, 2015) -Mettrum Health Corp. ("Mettrum" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:MT)(TSX VENTURE:MT.WT), a vertically integrated agri-pharmaceutical company focused on research, development, production and distribution of medical cannabis products, is pleased to announce that it has received a supplemental license from Health Canada for the production of cannabis extracts effective immediately. 

According to science, you may want to lay off the weed if you’re trying to conceive. 

Smoking pot could damage your semen quality, or so suggests a new study out of Denmark. Some 1,215 Danish men ages 18 to 28 were asked about their drug use over the past three months and provided a semen sample. The researchers found a correlation between men who smoked pot more than once weekly and “quite a lot” of a drop in sperm count: the count was an average 29 percent lower in these men than in those who reported lighter or no usage. 

Those who reported additional drug use (anything from cocaine to ecstasy) saw an even more severe reduction, with average sperm count down 55 percent. 

Tweed Marijuana, a publicly traded medicinal marijuana company on the Toronto Stock Exchange-Venture board (TWD), announced Monday morning that the company had completed its merger with Bedrocan Cannabis in an all-stock deal valued at about CDN$61 million on the day the arrangement was first announced in June.

Tweed is Canada’s first publicly traded medical marijuana company and Bedrocan is a clinical research firm that claims to be one of only two companies in the world currently capable of producing standardized full-bud, pharmaceutical grade medicinal cannabis. Bedrocan operates as a division of Tweed, and Bedrocan’s shareholders own approximately 40% of the merged companies. Tweed shareholders own about 60%.