Will Gaudet was born into the cannabis industry. A Berkeley native, he grew up watching his father’s passion for growing marijuana. But now, 25, he has decided not to follow in his father’s footsteps as a cultivator, and instead, start his own cannabis startup company.

“I believe that if I am going to do anything about changing the industry that I love, I need to start where the most money is being poured into,” Gaudet said. “And it’s not being poured into growing. It is being poured into the tech that will be able to revolutionize the way the cannabis industry is.”

"I think the first line of discussion is the individual Maine towns because they're going to have and should have the right to say we don't marijuana here", said Newell Augur, legal counsel for the No on 1 campaign.

The recount was expected to take up to a month to complete and cost taxpayers $500,000. Unofficial results from the secretary of state's office had put the margin of victory at 4,073 in the days after the election. Because the recount was ended early, the final price tag for the recount is expected to be much less. They No on 1 campaign had struggled to provide sufficient volunteers to perform the recount last week, only coming up with eight of the requested ten the state asked for on Wednesday, two days after the recount was to begin.

A voter-approved law allowing adults to possess, grow and use limited amounts of recreational marijuana has now taken effect in Massachusetts, but it will still be at least another year before the state issues retail licenses to sell the drug. For now, that leaves recreational users with little choice but to buy it from illegal dealers.

The ballot measure passed last month by a margin of more than 240,000 votes out of nearly 3.8 million total votes cast.

Here’s a look at the new law, including what’s legal and what’s not.

MassRoots, a technology platform for the cannabis industry, announced last week it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire DDDigtal, otherwise known as Whaxy and Cannabuild, for $100,000 cash and 2,926,830 million shares of MassRoots’ common stock.

In a press release, MassRoots said that, since Whaxy launched its menu management and online ordering platform in May for licensed cannabis businesses, it has processed more than $5 million in volume across 40,000 unique transactions.

She's the Australian icon who dotes on her only daughter in private and public life.

But now Olivia Newton-John, 68, is allegedly feeling betrayed by Chloe Lattanzi, 30, because the loan she gave her to set up a new life is being used to fund a marijuana farm.

As DailyMail.com first reported, Chloe and her fiance James Driskill are building a cannabis business in Oregon using money Olivia gave them.

It was reported that the loan was to buy land to build a home on and Olivia allegedly feels betrayed her daughter is using it for a very different purpose, according to Australian magazine New Idea.

'Olivia's under the impression she's helping Chloe and James get a good start to their life, but growing weed is not what she had in mind,' a family insider said.

Agencies across the globe continue to recognize the medical benefits associated with cannabis. It is only a matter of time before this incredible plant will be legalized in the United States.

From the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the medical benefits associated with cannabis can no longer be ignored. Last year, the NCI updated its website to include various studies that reveal how cannabis may inhibit tumor growth by killing cells. The NIDA revised their April 2015 publication to say that marijuana can kill certain cancer cells and reduce the size of others.

For those suffering depression or anxiety, using cannabis for relief may not be the long-term answer.

That's according to new research from a team at Colorado State University seeking scientific clarity on how cannabis - particularly chronic, heavy use - affects neurological activity, including the processing of emotions.

Researchers led by Lucy Troup, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, have published a study in PeerJ describing their findings from an in-depth, questionnaire-based analysis of 178 college-aged, legal users of cannabis. Recreational cannabis became legal in Colorado in 2014. Since then, seven other states have enacted legalization for recreational use, while many others allow medical use.

The Drug Enforcement Administration published a rule in the Federal Register Wednesday clarifying that certain marijuana extracts — notably cannabidiol, or CBD — are indeed Schedule 1 controlled substances and just as illegal under federal law as whole-plant marijuana itself.

DEA spokesman Russell Baer says it is an administrative measure to help with record-keeping, but the rule drew attention for its use of the archaic spelling of “marihuana" -- with an “H” instead of a “J.” The rule is entitled “Establishment of a New Code for Marihuana Extract,” and uses the H spelling throughout.

About a year ago, I visited Seattle to see how pot legalization was going. Not well, as it turned out.

A few years earlier, Washington State became one of the first U.S. jurisdictions to vote in favour of legalizing and regulating the sale of marijuana for recreational use. In 2014, the system designed to manage the commercialization process was operational – and it didn’t take long for some early grumbling to become a nascent revolt.

John Stewart was at the helm of Purdue Pharma in 2013. He was in the business of making Oxycontin, a prescription opioid painkiller that has addicted an estimated 1.9 million Americans and led to countless overdose deaths. In fact, between 1999 and 2012, accidental overdoses from prescription painkillers quadrupled. In 2015, a gut-wrenching 55,403 lethal drug overdoses were reported.

“There is a lot of anti-opioid sentiment,” says John Stewart. “And certainly based on the social disruption that we’ve seen it’s understandable.”