Howard County police want to raise awareness about the potentially hazardous use of a concentrated form of marijuana known as "dabbing."

Police said using the drug in this form creates a dangerously intense high, and  manufacturing the drug can cause serious burns and explosions.

The dabbing process can raise marijuana's potency from the standard street level of 15 percent to 80 percent or more, police said. In dabbing, users inhale vapor from "dabs" of waxy or solid marijuana concentrate, creating an intense high from a single inhalation.

Dabbing can cause numerous negative side effects, including a rapid heartbeat, blackouts, feeling like something is crawling under the skin, loss of consciousness and psychotic symptoms, including paranoia and hallucinations.

There are different varieties of marijuana, but what causes them to have different effects? Shutterstock

In many U.S. states, marijuana is now considered medicine. Unlike many traditional medicines, marijuana is not standardized in form and can have many varying effects on an individual. Why is it, though, that two different types of marijuana can give you two different experiences?

One of the first variables is how the marijuana is consumed. If smoked, cannabis users can feel the effect within minutes. If eaten, however, it can take over an hour for effects to set in — and they might last much longer.

The Menominee Tribe overwhelmingly approved two advisory referendum questions authorizing its legislature to legalize marijuana on its reservation, the tribe said Friday.

Tribal members voted 677 to 499 to legalize marijuana use for recreational purposes. Members approved marijuana for medicinal purposes 899 to 275. The voting was conducted Wednesday and Thursday and the results announced Friday morning.

The matter now moves to the tribe's legislature, which will study the issue and likely approve ordinances legalizing marijuana.

This November, Ohio will vote on whether to become the biggest state to fully legalize marijuana. But the measure is very different from what's come out of other legal pot states — and not in a good way, according to drug policy experts and legalization advocates.

Ohio is already an unexpected candidate for full legalization compared with the four legal pot states. It isn't especially progressive like Colorado, Oregon, and Washington state, or libertarian like Alaska. It doesn't even have medical marijuana yet, although it was one of the states to decriminalize pot back in the 1970s.

Marijuana is a $40 billion business — and the guys gearing up to turn ganja into the next McDonald's don't even smoke the stuff. Is the culture of weed about to go up in smoke, or are we just paranoid?

The cannabis industry’s growing pains are causing unease for some stakeholders, even as the newly minted Alaska Marijuana Control Board was able to favorably change certain draft regulations.

The Alaska Marijuana Control Board decided on several changes to the draft regulations for the budding cannabis industry during its second meeting Aug. 10-11. The board set a license fee of $5,000, left an open window for Outside investment dollars, liberalized key cannabis business zoning requirements, removed a requirement for license holders to list their family members’ information on license applications and estimated the number of licenses for cannabis businesses.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Across the country, the market for cannabis edibles is booming—but some consumers and regulators still have concerns about the THC-infused foods. Green Technology Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB: GTSO) is working to deliver superior new edibles products that are more reliable and delicious than ever before.

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Bill creating medical pot licensing advances

Approach would keep growers, distributors separate

Some say system works for alcohol

America is enamored with marijuana. The still federally-illegal substance, which has been given voter-approval by four states, is quickly gaining support from more-conservative audiences, and is even bound to find its way into the 2016 presidential election as Ohio, an important swing state, is set to test the waters this Fall.

In the US, marijuana marketing is quietly moving into the mainstream and a new, legal industry is challenging preconceptions about the target market, as Mark Lowe, co-founder of Third City, finds out.

Weed is becoming legit. Medical marijuana is now legal in 23 US states plus Washington DC, and full legalisation is slated to be on seven more state ballots for the 2016 elections. Despite strong opposition, not least from presidential candidate Chris Christie, and legitimate mental health concerns, changing social attitudes suggest that gradual decriminalisation is trending across the developed world. In the US, even most Republican voters don’t think state-level legalisation should be rolled back.