More than two years ago, Leif Abel sat around a table with his brother and his father and a list of about 50 possible names for the marijuana cultivation business they wanted to start in Kasilof.

After considering whether to take on an image that clearly sends a message about cannabis or perhaps something more discreet, they landed on the name Greatland Ganja and a logo that prominently features a cannabis leaf.

“We’re proud of what we’re doing,” Abel said. “We’re trying to project a culture of openness and acceptance of people within this subculture that is coming into main society.”

Marijuana is about the healing, not the high.

That was the take-away Tuesday from a news conference hosted by Ohioans for Medical Marijuana, a political action group that wants to put an initiative on the November ballot for a comprehensive medical marijuana program.

Introverts are people who tend to ‘regenerate’ and find peace away from other people. They tend to prefer solitude to expending energy doing the activities that extroverts do such as spending time with people in social situations. 

Unfortunately sometimes introverts have to fit in a world that tends to run in a fast paced way with lots of other people, thus, some introverted people find that cannabis can help them with the energy loss that comes along with modern society.

Using high energy sativa hybrid strains, with high THC levels can help some people feel alert and energised. Such strains like Sour Diesel have been bred for just this type of activity.

A new chart from the Marijuana Business Daily show that America's four states with legal, recreational marijuana markets are going to have some company this fall - especially if the poll numbers in three key states hold up.

As Congress and the Drug Enforcement Administration weigh whether marijuana should be rescheduled, public faith in the drug classification system continues to erode. Debate rages between those who emphasize the strangeness of marijuana being on the highly restrictive Schedule I alongside far more harmful drugs like heroin, and those who emphasize how strange it would be to put crude plant matter on a less restrictive schedule alongside well-specified FDA-approved medications.

These cute and colorful designs could make marijuana usage and shopping more approachable.

Marijuana culture is celebrated plenty of other days besides April 20. With the legalization of marijuana in many states, and the growing conversations around its use for both medical and recreational uses, new products are emerging to cater to specific groups. Weed shops have always always abounded but a few teams recently envisioned what it might be like to present marijuana products in a new way: Surface magazine asked 12 different teams to re-imagine the standard packaging and designs used for marijuana products.

While opioid pain relievers offer critical benefits to certain patients, such as those with cancer-related pain, the rise of opioid prescriptions has had devastating public health consequences. The C.D.C. recently urged physicians to be very cautious in prescribing these drugs.

Meanwhile, access to medical marijuana has expanded rapidly — 24 states and D.C. have legalized its broad medical use — and chronic or severe pain is the most common condition reported among those using it. On it's face, this might seem to mirror the rise in prescription opioid use.

Is The Farm, with its earnest salespeople and eager shoppers, a vision of pot's future here?

Just 10 minutes before its 9 a.m. opening time, a dozen mellow shoppers have already lined up outside The Farm Saturday in Boulder, Colorado.

Curious, I join the line and ask about the commercial commotion.

A middle-class dude replied that The Farm was offering a 20-per-cent discount on cannabis products in honour of the late Prince that morning.

It was a "Purple Haze" sale, he said.

Others in line volunteered that the state's new marijuana stores were "awesome" and the marijuana trade thriving.

4/20 is like smoke -- it’s elusive, mysterious and ceremonial. The story of exactly how the exalted stoner holiday blazed into existence is the stuff of skunky legend.

Whether late Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia invented it, or whether it’s meant to commemorate Bob Marley’s birthday, there’s no doubt that April 20 is the day that pot smokers of the world unite to toke up and party.

Hemp has exactly the same potential as cannabis.

• Same CBD content
• Yet, no need for a prescription
• And no psychoactive reaction

The only difference between hemp and cannabis is the THC content of above 0.3% in cannabis which leads to a psychoactive reaction – as THC is the only psychoactive component. Hemp THC content has to be below 0.3%.

• Same health benefits (same medicinal and nutritional effects)
• Much easier accessible for consumers (no prescription and legality issues)
• You can work and drive ect. (non-psychoactive)

Properties of CBD are amongst others: