New Zealanders will be able to vote on whether they want to legalize cannabis in a referendum next year. The draft law under consideration would allow people over the age of 20 to purchase the drug. New Zealand will hold a referendum on legalizing cannabis during the 2020 general election, the government announced Tuesday. Justice
2019 WILL LIKELY be the year when it becomes significantly easier for patients to access medicinal cannabis in Ireland. The government has found a supplier, and Minister for Health Simon Harris is due to bring his plans for a cannabis access scheme to cabinet. Currently it is only available to a small number of patients.
The reliability of Canada’s only federally approved device for roadside cannabis impairment testing has been thrown into question after a Vancouver lawyer determined the device is easily duped, writes Calvin Hughes. While preparing to roll out cannabis legalization in October of 2018, the Canadian government introduced a new roadside cannabis impairment testing device called the
Christy and Mark Zartler consider cannabis to be their daughter’s “rescue medicine.” Kara, 19, has severe autism and cerebral palsy, and has hurt herself — smacking and punching her face and head repeatedly — for more than a decade. Nothing, including pharmaceutical drugs, worked to calm her, until the Zartlers began illegally using medical marijuana,
A medical marijuana cultivation center in Elk Grove Village is financially banking on the state legalizing recreational marijuana — expanding its grow operation and building a lab to process marijuana products in anticipation of what will undoubtedly become a booming industry should it pass. Illinois Grown Medicine in the northwestern suburb is confident it will
Following the effects of the crypto-winter, one Chinese firm has been forced to diversify its business model away from blockchain. It’s chosen industrial hemp as the next addition to its portfolio. Grandshores Technology has historically invested in blockchain-based infrastructure and hardware but is shaping up to buy a 40-percent stake in Chinese industrial hemp producer
In its biggest Canadian deal to date, HelloMD is now providing health practitioner advice through the Shoppers Drug Mart medical cannabis website to streamline access for patients. “We worked tremendously hard to be awarded this business, and being selected by Shoppers is that crowning jewel that we’ve been building towards,” says Larry Lisser, senior vice-president
A Vancouver-born actor appeared on a late-night talk show Monday to talk about his new movie, and his latest venture outside the industry. Seth Rogen was on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” where he talked about his latest film, “Long Shot.” Rogen plays a journalist who reunites with his childhood crush, played by Charlize
A Manhattan-based investor has dropped $9 million to fund marijuana research at his alma maters—Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to the Harvard Gazette, Charles R. Broderick has donated $4.5 million to each institution to study marijuana’s effects on health and behavior. The donation is reportedly the largest private gift to benefit
ONEIDA – Come autumn, you’ll see fields of green on the Oneida reservation. Amid changing tides for hemp in Wisconsin, the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin will grow the crop this summer as part of a state pilot program geared toward exploring its myriad uses. And for the tribe, the possibilities seem endless. “It’s kind of