Silver Tour's "Should Grandma Smoke Pot?" is being used in more than a dozen countries to teach the benefits of cannabis.

Robert Plathorn, aka Bpbby the Tuna created a GoFundMe campaign to support his efforts towards leagalizing marijuana

Your funding made the production possible. Here is a version in Russian

Silver Tour's "Should Grandma Smoke Pot?" is being used in more than a dozen countries to teach the benefits of cannabis. Your funding made the production possible. Here is a version in Russian

What do you get when you combine pot and techies? (No, not a late night Doritos-driven coding session.) It's a whole new startup industry that's blossoming in Seattle.

The Emerald City is already known for being fertile ground for tech startups. With the growing recreational and medicinal cannabis industries getting off the ground, we're seeing the tech and marijuana markets colliding in new and very interesting ways.

Cy Scott is one of the co-founders of Leafly, a website that allows users to rate and review pot strains and dispensaries. Scott says the seed for Leafly was planted while he was working at Kelly Blue Book, a website that allows users to rate and review cars.

Revolution Enterprises held its grand opening for its 20 million dollar, 75,000 square foot medical cannabis cultivation center and laboratory.

The state-of-the-art facility is located in Barry, Illinois and its mission is to advance the science of cannabis.

Revolution Cannabis Barry is one of two facilities managed in Illinois.

Inside the building, they will be researching new and effective medicines.

The center is expected to employ 70 to 75 people.

CEO of Revolution Enterprises, Tim McGraw, says the work done in the facility will provide medical help to many Illinoisians.

Washington launched its second-in-the-nation legal marijuana market with just a handful of stores selling high-priced pot to long lines of customers. A year later, the state has about 160 shops open, tax revenues have soared past expectations and sales top $1.4 million per day.

Washington launched its second-in-the-nation legal marijuana market with just a handful of stores selling high-priced pot to long lines of customers. A year later, the state has about 160 shops open, tax revenues have soared past expectations and sales top $1.4 million per day. Washington legal cannabis sales tax topped $70M in year one, surpassing all estimates.

And who knows — the industry might even start making some money.

Opponents of marijuana legalization to launch campaign Monday

Children are likely to be a big part of the campaigns both for and against marijuana legalization in Ohio.

The location of Monday’s 2 p.m. campaign kickoff by a coalition opposing ResponsibleOhio’s for-profit legalization plan is a giveaway: Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

While slow in developing, the still-forming coalition is touted as far-reaching by state Rep. Mike Curtin, D-Marble Cliff, a militant opponent of ResponsibleOhio’s plan to make marijuana legal for personal consumption and medicinal use.

“It’s going to be a very, very impressive coalition, as broad and diverse as this state has ever seen on an issue campaign,” Curtin said.

Dr. Mackey is Division Chief for Pain Medicine at Stanford University, and is the current President of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. Here, he summarizes his PAINWeek 2014 lecture on the neurophysiology of pain transmission, with a focus on what the frontline clinician should know.

*Some names have been changed to protect the sources’ identity.

Many of us hardly stop to think about where our weed comes from. Beyond the standard plastic bag exchange, marijuana’s origins generally remain a mystery. So, when I connected with a handful of cannabis farmers to better understand their lives I hardly knew what to expect. My mind flashed between media headlines – ‘marijuana grow disguised as furniture store,’ or ‘cannabis farm fronts as cherry factory.’ Yet, I stumbled onto an entirely different culture – one comprised of spiritual folks and avid farmers working with everything from indoor rooms to acres of sun-kissed land.

So, here’s a chance to get to know five different cannabis farmers, some of which may have grown the greens you last toked.

SAN FRANCISCO — Students, accountants, businessmen, housewives and many others in green T-shirts and all wearing the number 420 raced Saturday to change the stereotypical images of marijuana smokers as lazy and lethargic stoners who binge on junk food.

More than 300 people came from throughout the San Francisco Bay Area to participate in the 420 Games, an effort to stop the stigmatization of cannabis use through athletic events.

"People who use marijuana have been classified as dumb, lazy, stupid people and with this race we're showing them we're not what they say we are," said Jim McAlpine, a snowboard company executive who founded the events last year. "We want to show them we are motivated, athletic members of society."

In Woodland, the signs of the harvest are everywhere — trucks hauling fruits of local labor, typically processing tomatoes, on Main Street and elsewhere.

It’s been an annual sight, but this month, a small group of growers just celebrated their first harvest, preparing medical marijuana for thousands of patients.

“This is really exciting,” said Robin Miller. “We have a lot to learn and there is a very steep learning curve, but the community really cares and they are coming together to make things happen.”

TRENTON — If Gov. Chris Christie is elected president, states that have legalized marijuana would see this short-lived freedom go up in smoke.

Marijuana is legally available for purchase and recreational use in Colorado and Washington, despite its illegal status under federal law. However, President Obama's administration hasn't penalized the states nor forced them to roll back the initiatives that voters in those states approved.

In an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation in June, the Republican governor said his administration would use federal rules that outlaw marijuana to clamp down on states that legalized recreational pot use.