Charlotte Figi from Face of Cannabis, a website devoted to children who have found relief from serious medical problems with CBD-rich cannabis

It’s hard to imagine giving a five-year-old cannabis.

But it’s also hard not to, when you see the faces and hear the stories of children who are fighting to have access to cannabinoids–called CBD, or cannabidiol’–that have helped them overcome severe handicaps.

Cannabis tech is beginning to bud in Chicago.

Following the long-awaited opening of several legal cannabis dispensaries earlier this month, many Chicagoans can finally buy the medical marijuana they need to help treat their qualifying medical conditions.

Medical marijuana has been legal in Illinois since 2014, but until very recently, patients had no place to legally buy the drug — even with their physician’s prescription.

The recent news has caused quite a bit of buzz — little of which was lost on Chicago’s tech community.

Cannabis business thrives when patients’ needs are first

The cannabis industry collectively celebrates as each state progressively reduces volatility, moving towards ever-greater degrees of cannabis legalization. At the core of increasing stabilization is one factor: the desire of millions of patients to use cannabis medically and recreationally for their own and society’s benefit. 

All cannabis professionals owe their livelihood to the patients who have raised their voices, contributed their hard-earned money, and collectively demanded an end to prohibition. Successful cannabis businesses will place the interests of these patient’s needs first.

EUGENE, Ore. - A nonprofit trade organization based on philanthropy has reached out to help during the holiday - but had the offer turned down.

The group, "Women Leaders in Cannabis," says it's been denied several times.

The Eugene office of the Oregon Department of Human Services and two charities said "no" when the group wanted to donate turkey dinner baskets to clients in need.

But they finally found a group who said "yes".

KindTree Autism Rocks is a volunteer group that celebrates people in the autism community.

Of all the alarming things that inspectors of Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board might discover about a grow op, this one may top them all.

While inspecting the background of a grower in Sequim on November 20, 2014, inspectors discovered a complaint filed against the individual with the Clallam County Sheriff’s office. The owners of a rental property adjacent to the grow op allege that the grower had gotten all dressed up in his birthday suit and was “bending a metal fence post, squatting, and moving his body forward and backward,” in full view of a family of barbecuing vacationers. The sheriff’s report included a photo of said naked bearded man and noted that, according to the tenants, “the man appeared to be aware of the guests barbecuing on the deck.”

The Shinnecock Indian Nation is considering the idea of producing medical marijuana on its land—complying with state and federal law— hoping it would produce needed revenue for the tribe.

Tribal Trustee Chairman Bryan Polite said in a statement that after the New York State Legislature passed the Compassionate Care Act last year—an act that allows health care providers to recommend forms of medical marijuana to patients with serious conditions—the nation began to think about what that act meant for the tribe.

City officials will seek a temporary moratorium expansion to give City Council more time to discuss regulations, spokesman says

Denver city officials have pulled back from seeking a two-year moratorium on any new players in the city's legal marijuana market in response to City Council concerns, a city spokesman says.

On Tuesday morning, Mayor Michael Hancock's marijuana policy office instead will ask a council committee to approve an expanded 120-day moratorium, allowing time for more discussion and consideration of industry concerns. The current two-year moratorium — allowing only existing medical marijuana businesses to open recreational dispensaries, grow houses or edible manufacturers — expires Jan. 1.

Marijuana dispensaries have come a long way from the seedy head shops lining Venice Beach.

Today, these brick-and-mortar establishments range from boutique shops where "budtenders" walk you through the product line to fluorescent-lit clinics where medicinal use is emphasized.

The dispensary of the future was a hot topic at last week's New West Summit in San Francisco, California. Here's what we learned.

LAS VEGAS (KSNV News3LV) – It’s taken 15 years, but one-by-one medical marijuana businesses are opening across the valley, giving patients more access to the drug.

Four dispensaries are doing business now and a fifth will open in January. The promise of more storefronts is spawning business of another kind, catering to tourists. Now, instead of taking a tour of the Hoover Dam or up and down the Las Vegas Strip, tourists can stop at medical marijuana locations across Clark County.

Medical Marijuana Tour Promoters are now looking for business, decked out in bright green vests.
The 420 Tours began rolling about a month ago, driving patients from one medical marijuana dispensary to the next.

For years, Homestead and the Redland have been the epicenter of Miami's booming marijuana-growing scene. Of course, the millions of dollars' worth of weed shipped out of South Dade every year has to be produced on the sly in black-market grow houses and is subject to regular raids by law enforcement officials.