If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

While we’ll be the first to admit that it would be pretty legendary to simply lay around for a couple months getting stoned on Uncle Sam’s dime, unfortunately the reports that have been circulating the Internet for the past couple of months suggesting that “NASA Will Pay You $18,000 to Stay in Bed and Smoke Weed for 70 Straight Days” are completely bogus and need to be cleared up once and for all. 

Every kilogram of cultivated marijuana leads to about 4.3 tons of carbon dioxide.

Slowly but surely, medicinal use of cannabis is becoming more widely acceptable across the United States and the world, while states like Colorado and Washington are filling to the brim with luscious and towering grow operations.

Get in on the cannabis industry while the getting’s good.

It’s no secret that America’s cannabis industry is booming.

Four states and the District of Columbia have already legalized marijuana for recreational use, 25 states have legalized the drug for medical purposes and numerous states are pushing to do the same in 2016.

Per KCBS:

CEO and Co-founder of venture capital and private equity firm The ArcView Group Troy Dayton forecast that the marijuana industry will grow from a $7.1 billion market this year to a $22.8 billion by 2020.

Some experts that work with this plant claim that weed mixed with the oil of coconut can become more bio available. That means that the absorption and utilization of the nutrients will achieve higher level by every internal system.

The effectiveness in the extraction of THC is due to the abundance of saturated fat of coconut oil. Cannabinoids can be absorbed by other oils too, like butter but the absorption by coconut oil is much better.

At the crux of the legalization movement, there are few better ways to celebrate freedom than with cannabis because for the first time since the 1930s, cannabis is legal in some capacity in more than half of the United States. As such, we teamed up with local hotshot bartender Nick McCleery to create three red, white, and blue canna-cocktails for the 4th. 

It’ll probably give him a bump in the polls back in Oregon.

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), a high-profile supporter of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, has been caught on video with $70,000 in drug money. The footage, provided exclusively to The Huffington Post, also captures Rep. Earl Blumenauer, another Oregon Democrat, as well as a prominent local businessman, Tyson Haworth. 

The video, however, was not a sting operation run by the Drug Enforcement Administration or FBI. Instead, it’s an effort to highlight a gaping and dangerous hole in national cannabis policy, if such a thing even exists. 

There is no guarantee California will vote to legalize recreational marijuana in November, but political operative and father of four Daniel Conway has already staked his future on it.

Conway left his job as chief of staff to Sacramento's celebrity mayor, former Phoenix Suns NBA basketball star Kevin Johnson, to help start the marijuana investment company Truth Enterprises.

He is one of hundreds in the most populous U.S. state already pushing ahead with plans to enter a market experts say will be worth $4 billion by 2020.

"I'm someone of an age and of a demographic that sees the legalization and normalization of marijuana as inevitable," said Conway, 35. "This was a chance not just to build companies but to build an industry."

Alzheimer’s disease prevalence is likely to become almost three times in the United States by 2050, so it has become very important to identify effective treatments to address the condition. Alzheimer’s disease leads to decline in cognitive function and many research teams across the world are trying to understand the condition in a better way to develop treatment.

Now, as per a latest study, marijuana may hold the answer to this kind of a treatment. The study team noticed that use of marijuana could help in removing beta-amyloid protein from nerve cells. This could help in development of new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, the research team claimed.

To Keith Crocker, it's clear marijuana could be the logical next step in pushing Juneau's tourism industry to a higher level.

That's why he and business partner Mitchell Knottingham created Juneau Cannabis Tours.

Their idea — to give tours of Alaska's new marijuana industry in action — is a glimpse into a potential new piece of the state's visitor economy.

Some Alaskans are mulling the idea of starting up marijuana tourism companies, while others already have business licenses, but all seem to be biding their time until more commercial marijuana licenses are approved later this year.

Going on marijuana tours in Denver gave Crocker and Knottingham insight into the sort of company they wanted to build in Alaska.

Ohioans looking for medical marijuana this fall may not be able to get the drug as soon as it becomes legal in September.

Doctors in the state will be able to give patients written certification that they can use marijuana in certain forms starting in September.  However, actually finding the drug through legal channels will be a challenge.

State Sen. Kenny Yuko has been working for more than a decade to legalize medical marijuana and says the state needs to get moving soon on the rules for who can get the drug, and where.