The doors — or rather, windows — will soon open on the Tumbleweed Express Drive-Thru, the nation's first legal drive-thru marijuana dispensary.

Located in a converted car wash space in Parachute, Colo., the dispensary will sell weed from 4 p.m. to midnight on the weekends, giving buyers late-night access. Naturally, the shop is planning to open on April 20, better known as 4/20.

In Colorado, we pride ourselves on being physically fit and active.

There is no other state in the union where hiking 14,000-foot mountains is an unexceptional hobby, or where most of the population understands the phrase “baggin’ ’teeners.” On top of being a state filled with trim bodies, we’re also a state full of trim marijuana. But how does recreational weed — a sub- stance typically associated with lazy, pot-bellied stoners eating potato chips on bean bag couches — fit into our self-image of a state filled with sexy hiker bodies with abs as solid as the rocks we climb?

As the cannabis culture has taken a turn for the best and 4/20 isn’t just a day to celebrate getting high anymore, April is now officially Cannabis Awareness Month. Mind blown! What does this even mean? It means that all tokes of life can shed light on the many positive aspects of our dear friend, Mary Jane. Why should we love weed? Why shouldn’t we! Let’s take a HIGH-level look through heavy bloodshot eyes as to why dope is the dopest.

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By all accounts the future is certainly green in more ways than one. Many ‘potrepreneurs’ in the US aiming to cash in on the green rush are looking north to Canada.  With a medical marijuana program already in place, and legislation to legalize marijuana now on the table, it’s a market many people have set their sights on.

The California craft beer industry is worth upwards of $7 billion, and with approximately 750 breweries, the state is home to more brew operations than any other in the country. Now, the Golden State’s cannabis contingent is hoping to follow suit, with many industry leaders emphasizing the importance–and frankly, rights to–self-distribution.

Pharmaceuticals containing cannabinoids may be effective against eczema, psoriasis, atopic and contact dermatitis.

Anti-inflammatory properties in a cannabis compound could help treat itching and a wide-range of other skin diseases, say researchers.

The new study, published online in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, summarises the current literature on the subject and concludes that pharmaceuticals containing cannabinoids may be effective against eczema, psoriasis, atopic and contact dermatitis.

“Perhaps the most promising role for cannabinoids is in the treatment of itch,” said the study’s senior author Robert Dellavalle, Associate Professor of Dermatology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in the US.

But two days earlier, John Kelly said marijuana was "not a factor" in the war on drugs. Which one does he believe?

On Sunday, Homeland Security secretary John Kelly said marijuana was “not a factor” in the war on drugs. But in a speech today, he described cannabis as a “potentially dangerous gateway drug” and said the drug will play a role in building deportation cases.

An uncertain future can breed both optimism and apprehension, and five months after the passage of Proposition 64, nothing is as uncertain as how California’s budding recreational cannabis industry will develop in the years to come. Cannabis growers in the Emerald Triangle are eager to inaugurate the coming era of fully legal weed, but they sometimes express an anxiety as old as the Industrial Revolution.

Some cannabis entrepreneurs worry that legalization of commercial recreational marijuana will invite investment capital from outside the area to establish giant, vertically integrated corporate behemoths with economies of scale that will enable them to fatally undercut and crush independent local growers. Think the Standard Oil or Walmart of weed.

Net Savings Link, Inc. (OTC: NSAV) announced today that the company will be opening an office in Shanghai, China next month, with the primary goal to expand its medical cannabis technology business. The Company is presently in the final stages of deciding from several premier locations in the world's largest city. NSAV views the opening of its flagship China office as both a significant opportunity and a vital necessity, given that China is the world's largest producer of cannabis sativa seeds, accounting for nearly 40% of global production. The opening of an office in China is the Company's second major announcement involving the world's largest country and second largest consumer market in recent weeks.

There’s a lot of cool stuff going on in the Oregon cannabis world right now.

It's been a rough year for the cannabis industry. Between tough new local laws, higher taxes and the appointment of staunchly anti-weed Russian operative Jefferson Beauregard "Jeff" Sessions III as the nation's top lawyer, things are a little…tense.

You know what helps with tension? Weed.

There's a lot of cool stuff going on in the Oregon cannabis world right now.  Here are the seven trends and products we're most stoked about.