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Cannabis Healed My Cancer
Michelle Aldrich, 66, has been working for marijuana legalization —which she defines as “the right to grow it for free in your backyard”— for most of her life. She and her husband Michael live in a...
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Medical Cannabis Helps ALS Patient Outlive her Own Doctors
Cathy Jordan first noticed something was wrong in summer of 1985 when she couldn’t pick things up. Her muscles weren’t responding. In 1986, she was diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)....
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New Study Shows Cannabis May Reverse Symptoms of Dementia
In what could turn out to be a groundbreaking study, a group from Neuroscience Research Australia has been examining if cannabidiol – one of the main ingredients in cannabis – could reverse some of the...
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Why Congress might legalize marijuana (this time)
In 1973, Oregon rode the hippie wave to became the first state in the country to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. Within five years, eight other states had followed, but momentum...
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Studies shed more light on debate around marijuana-impaired driving
A new study by CU Denver professor Daniel Rees and Montana State University professor D. Mark Anderson suggests stoned-driving limits don't impact traffic fatalities. Rees said he and Anderson looked...
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Hemp Growing Finds Allies of a New Stripe in Kentucky
Attitudes are changing in surprising places. At a hearing on Monday in Frankfort, the Kentucky capital, the state police commissioner’s opposition to hemp growing was challenged by a former C.I.A....
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Ole Miss cooks up marijuana pain patch
Ole Miss is home to the only legally grown marijuana crop in the nation and a new development there is creating quite a buzz.Faculty and student researchers say they created a new pain reliever in the...
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Woman pulled over after Ohio State sticker confused for drug symbol
A 65-year-old woman was pulled over by police officers while driving through Tennessee after the officers mistook her car's Buckeye stickers - those commonly seen on the helmets of Ohio State football...
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Poll: 7 in 10 back Florida medical-marijuana plan, enough to possibly affect...
As many as seven in 10 Florida voters support a state constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana — more than enough to ensure passage and possibly affect the governor’s race — according to a...
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Federal Bill Would Legalize Medical Marijuana
A bipartisan group of 13 U.S. House members on Monday introduced the States’ Medical Marijuana Patients Protection Act, allowing medical marijuana patients and businesses to access and distribute...
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Parrish couple cultivated medical marijuana for 10 years before this week's bust
The cannabis acts as a muscle relaxer, an anti-inflammatory, anti-depressant and appetite enhancer. It's also clears her bronchial tubes of phlegm, which often causes fatal suffocation of people with...
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Oklahoma bill reducing marijuana criminal penalty unanimously passes House...
Criminal penalties for marijuana possession in Oklahoma would be reduced under a bill passed without objection by a House committee. The House Public Safety Committee voted 14-0 on Wednesday for the...
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EnviroTextile hemp goods earn USDA BioPreferred approval
“While critics fear that hemp will have little economic impact, the reality is clear. With investment in farming, manufacturing, and jobs training, the US could experience a large resurgence in...
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Hypocrites: UN Slams US Marijuana Legalization, Is Scolded for Drinking on...
The notion of alcohol consumers piously demanding that others stop using pot probably makes you think of the beer-swilling World War II generation berating weed-smoking hippies during the 1960s. Now,...
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Doonesbury's Zonker to become hemp farmer, rename himself Kevin Colorado Springs
Doonesbury hasn't had a print home in Denver since June 2011, when the Denver Post yanked it. But it can be accessed online, and it's still good. Creator Garry Trudeau remains sharp and engaged; he's...
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Researchers Say Compound in Cannabis Plant Could Cure Cancer
A compound found in marijuana is now gaining some attention and its not THC. Bay area researchers say CBD or Cannabidiol is showing signs of fighting cancerous cells.Medicinal marijuana supporters...
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Cancer Researcher Raising Money for Cannabis Study
The SETH group is a non-profit cancer research organization made up of scientists pursuing an alternative approach to cancer treatment.SETH group founder previous research, documented the potent...
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Marijuanamerica: Why America Loves Weed
Against all odds, more than seventy-five years after the passage of the Marihuana Tax Act, and after millions of marijuana arrests during the combined drug wars of Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush,...
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"Miracle" Cannabis Oil: May Treat Cancer, But Money and the Law Stand in the...
First it was a cough. Then it was bronchitis. Then it was time to say goodbye to Michelle Aldrich.The year 2011 was supposed to be a good one for the 66-year-old. That June, she and her husband,...
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