There’s an interesting story hidden in the data that the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) publishes every month.

The LCB compiles statistics on the weight of cannabis harvested, and the weight of cannabis sold.

Here’s the funny thing: The two numbers almost never match up.

There’s almost always more harvest weight than retail weight sold. Like, a lotmore. Over the past 20 months, Washington farmers have brought in a total of 286,962 pounds of harvested cannabis. During that same time period, retailers sold 239,712 pounds.

That makes a difference of 47,250 pounds—23 tons of cannabis harvested but not sold.

Insomnia sufferers often swear by a puff of marijuana before bed. Now an Israeli company is helping to medicalize the practice with an inhaler that delivers a stable and controlled dose of a cannabis formula that lasts through the night.

i.can.sleep is a joint venture of iCAN:Israel-Cannabis, a group building out the medical marijuana industry in Israel and CannRx, a U.S. corporation that develops medical applications for cannabis.

The joint venture was announced at CannaTech, a conference on medical marijuana happening in Tel Aviv from March 20-22.

“You take a puff or two depending on the dosage and in ten minutes you will be drowsy enough to sleep,” said William Levine of CannRx.

The House on Monday rejected a bill to ban the manufacture or sale of medical marijuana in food or drink.

House Bill 1392 by Rep. Robin Lundstrum, R-Springdale, received 52 votes in support and 40 against. Because it would change a voter-approved constitutional amendment, it required a two-thirds vote for passage, or at least 67 votes in the 100-member House.

The bill would allow a patient authorized to use medical marijuana to put the drug in his or her own food, or have it done by an approved caregiver, but dispensaries could not sell the drug in food.

California law enforcement officers now possess the tools and wherewithal they need to crack down on drivers that consume cannabis. On St. Patrick’s Day weekend, San Diego Police Department began using two Dräger DrugTest 5000 machines which detect for a total of seven drugs. The San Diego Police Department is the first law enforcement agency to use the tests in San Diego County.

“Witnesses in a hearing are fact-checking the president’s tweets about that hearing during a hearing.”

Seth Meyers dissected President Donald Trump’s tweets during FBI director James Comey’s congressional hearing on Monday.

Market analysts are predicting every state will have a medicinal or recreational marijuana law on the books by 2021.

Marijuana could be legal across the entire United States by 2021, according to the latest research by GreenWave Advisors.

Last year, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada joined Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska in legalizing marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol. In addition, more than half the nation has legalized the leaf for medicinal purposes.

As more and more cannabis brands pop up on the market, each one encounters the same problem: advertising.

Before it even began, the monthly meeting of the People of Parkside Sunset had devolved into an angry crowd of seniors shouting in Cantonese.

“No invaders! No invaders! No invaders!” yelled out 100 or so Sunset District residents crammed into a humid room inside the Taraval Police Station earlier this month.

Their target? Floyd Huen, a Bay Area geriatrician who once led Oakland’s Highland Hospital. Huen, 70, has made it his late-in-life mission to spread awareness of the benefits of medical marijuana among the group he has found most hostile to it: elderly Asian Americans.

People taking psychoactive medications and drugs for conditions such as chronic pain tend to prefer medical cannabis to other drugs, including sedatives, opioids, and antidepressants, a study published in the International Journal of Drug Policy has found.

No longer forced to operate in the shadows, marijuana growers are learning to make their farming friendlier for fish. 

Sunshine Johnston has been growing marijuana on her 2,000-square-meter Humboldt County, California, farm since 2013. She grew up in the area, in a community of homesteaders, or “back to the landers,” and many of her neighbors grew cannabis. But the drug was illegal, and during the 1980s war on drugs, helicopter flyovers and raids were commonplace. Entire farms were seized when one plant was found.