Karen Paull (left) and Wendy Robbins say legal marijuana, like marriage equality, is coming to all 50 states. In the meantime, the women are making cannabis entrepreneurs rich and giving a platform to the drug's reported benefits with The Marijuana Show.

The title of Karen Paull and Wendy Robbins's reality competition, The Marijuana Show, conjures up Snoop Dogg and Cheech & Chong, not well-groomed lesbians handing out tens of millions in start-up capital.

WASHINGTON -- The number of people applying to medical school increased by 6.2% for 2015, which followed a 3.1% jump the previous year, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) announced Thursday.

A total of 52,550 people applied to medical school in 2014 for enrollment in 2015; of those, 38,460 were first-time applicants, an increase of 4.8% from the previous year, the AAMC said.

Colorado's legal marijuana industry is blazing ahead with annual sales now in excess of $1 billion dollars. 

According to data from Colorado's Department of Revenue released last Friday, business at the state's recreational and medical marijuana dispensaries hit $1 billion for the first nine months of 2015, including a combined $100 million in September alone. That was the highest monthly total since sales began there in January 2014. 

With just 48 hours to go before CNBC's presidential debate in Boulder this Wednesday, the declared candidates remain strongly divided over the issue of marijuana use in the United States.

Authorities claim the plants were marijuana, not hemp – but evidence is lacking.

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During the Hawai’i State Bar Association Convention on Oct. 23, Commissioner of Financial Institutions Iris Ikeda presented considerations for banks and other financial institutions when dealing with marijuana-related businesses.

Medical marijuana dispensaries could begin to do business as early as July 2016, but before then, banks and financial institutions should prepare.

Yes, 2015 is an exciting time for the legal Cannabis Industry as marijuana news now reaches the mainstream population hourly.

Celebrating these headlines is exciting for advocates and consumers alike, but many staunch marijuana supporters aren’t content just reading about the emerging industry — they want to participate in it.

Securing a legal license to operate a marijuana business is a complex process, but let’s assume we are among those awarded such a license in a recently minted marijuana state. How then do we begin the cultivation process?

Strokes suffered by young adults who use cannabis are more likely to be ischemic, compared to the strokes experienced by non-users, according to a research letter published Oct. 26 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).

It’s only 9 days until the 2015 election in Ohio. Marijuana legalization is on the ballot in Ohio, in a form that has not been seen before in marijuana politics. Parts of ResponsibleOhio’s marijuana initiative have created a lot of outcry from voters and specifically reformers. From what I have seen on social media and blogs, there is more support for the initiative than ever before. That’s certainly not to say that the initiative isn’t without it’s opposition from within the marijuana community, because there absolutely is. But it seems to be less prevalent than before, with many nationally known reformers expressing that they would ultimately vote for the initiative.

BOSTON/SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Two groups that had backed competing ballot initiatives to make recreational use of marijuana legal in Maine agreed on Monday to join forces on one measure to put before voters in 2016.

The state is one of six where competing pro-marijuana groups hope to hold referendums on marijuana legalization in 2016, following 2012 votes that legalized the drug in Colorado and Oregon. Attitudes about marijuana in the United States have changed markedly since then, as voters in Washington, Alaska and the District of Columbia have followed suit. Voters in Ohio will weigh in on legalization next month.