On the final day on UNGASS 2016, the UK’s Transform Drug Policy Foundation brought their Anyone’s Child campaign to a packed conference room at the UN.

In stark contrast to an event they were due to be involved in earlier in the day – ‘Drug Policy, Dirty Money, and Development: Why the UNGASS should care about the Panama Papers’ – which had to be called off after only a handful of people (myself included) managed to get through the police barriers to attend, this deeply emotional event was so popular that many attendees ended up sat on the floor, or stood around the edges of the room.

At times, it’s still hard for me to believe that the words ‘cannabis’ and ‘industry’ are regularly paired in the same sentence. For decades, marijuana as a plant has been engulfed in stigma and misinformation, making it difficult for legislators to accept its clear advantages as a medical aid and an opportunity for investment. Despite the great misconceptions that have plagued cannabis, the plant is now legal for medical use in almost half of all US states, and can be legally consumed by all adults 21 and over in four states.

There has been some controversy over the idea that cannabis can either make you a good or bad parent. With more and more parent marijuana smokers on the rise in the United States, is it possible that cannabis make you a better parent?

Today, about 10 % of the United States adult population are regular marijuana smokers. This is almost double the amount of marijuana smokers that were on record in the early 2000’s. This means that the people who are smoking the most marijuana in this country are among ages that are normal for having children, 25 to 30 years old.

Early results indicate trial participants saw a 40 percent decrease in frequency and severity of seizures.

Pharmaceutical-grade cannabis already is providing some with severe epilepsy relief less than two years after clinical trials began in Utah.

The University of Utah's Division of Pediatric Neurology and Primary Children's Medical Center began in September 2014 the first of three separate clinical trials involving Epidiolex, a liquid, purified form of cannabidiol (CBD), which is a nonpsychoactive chemical in marijuana.

Early results indicate trial participants have seen about a 40 percent decrease in the frequency and severity of seizures, said neurologist Francis Filloux, an author on the study.

Cannabis researchers in the United States are forced to conduct their studies using weed grown by the federal government. And many of them have said that Uncle Sam isn’t giving them what they need. If a scientist in the U.S. wants to do an official study of cannabis the only way to legally get the weed they need is to get it from the federal government’s supply.

Since 1968 the U.S. government has contracted with the University of Mississippi to grow for cannabis researchers.

With the sounds of reggae and rap blaring from the concert stage and groups of people lounging in the grass, Saturday's scene at RFK's Lot 6 could have been any outdoor music festival, with one glaring exception—the line for beer was practically nonexistent.

The lack of swarming crowds around the alcohol offerings was the biggest hint that attendees were at the first-ever National Cannabis Festival, which promised a celebration of the progress on marijuana legalization amidst the musical stylings of headliner De La Soul, as well as the Backyard Band, Congo Sanchez, and more.

The Montana Supreme Court Monday delayed until Aug. 31 the effective date of medical-marijuana restrictions that it declared constitutional in February.

A majority of the court agreed with marijuana industry claims that imposing the restrictions immediately would cause “serious disruption” to a program that’s been operating now for almost five years under less-restrictive rules.

But the court rejected a request by the industry – and the Bullock administration – to delay the restrictions until 2017, to give the next Legislature a chance to modify them.

After a successful pilot program, the A.C.T. Now program will soon offer treatment for Californians with serious illnesses. Learn what it all means.

Harborside Health Center, the multi-state cannabis super-brand with claim to the largest dispensary in California, has cemented a partnership with United Cannabis Corporation to bring revolutionary and effective new cannabis therapies to thousands of patients in California. 

OK. So it’s not a tester job, duh, but Confident Cannabis is looking for front and backend developers in San Francisco and this is actually a chance to be part of a pretty cool social experiment, as much as being close to the green stuff.

As legislators across the world, most notably in the US, are taking another look at whether prohibition of weed has ever really made economic or social sense, Silicon Valley startups are doing what they do best – working out how to grab a piece of this growing market.

The senator says there's "almost the question" of why cigarettes are "a legal product in this country."

Of the five major presidential candidates remaining in the race, Bernie Sanders is the only one to have called for an end to the federal pot ban. But he also seemed to hint today on Meet the Press that he'd like to add another drug to the list of forbidden substances. Here's the exchange, which came after Sanders explained his opposition to a proposed soda tax: