A question hung in the air at the Cannabis World Congress and Business Exposition at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan on Thursday: How do you show off your wares in a place where actually using them would be illegal?

The sales pitches were carefully honed.

“These are for tobacco only,” Raj Tiwary, a vice president for the vaping accessory maker Ultimate Vapor Source, said repeatedly, while demonstrating a line of pipes and pens. “Tobacco and dry herbs.”

SALEM-Medical marijuana dispensary owners pleaded Thursday with legislators to allow them to sell to recreational pot users once the drug becomes legal on July 1.

"We don't know a single dispensary doing well in this over-saturated market," said Meghan Walstatter, who along with her husband Matt owns a dispensary in Northeast Portland.

She called early sales of recreational marijuana a "much-needed lifeline" for the dispensaries.

The Oregon Health Authority has approved licenses for 310 dispensaries and another 93 are pending, according to a June 12 tally. 

SafeAccess420.com – a Cannabis Classified website has launched its service in 23 states and DC. SafeAccess420.com allows its users to post free classifieds ads in 101 geographic regions for any service of product related to Marijuana. The service is available only in state where it is legally allowed.

CEO of the SafeAccess420.com, Brett Morgan, confirmed that the users of the website will have a comfortable experience since the site is similar to craigslist. SafeAccess420.com has set its clear differentiation with clean layout, easy on eye, better ad management experience, and a familiar experience to major online classifieds. Today at Safe Access 420

In Live Free or Die, a 2010 memoir recounting how cannabis oil saved her life, Shona Banda emphasizes the importance of “self-taught knowledge,” acquired by constantly asking questions and “looking at all of the angles of any information given.” Her son may have learned that lesson too well. Had he been less inquisitive, less prone to question authority, he might still be living with his mother, and she might not be facing criminal charges that could send her to prison for decades.

Staying positive. Tommy Chong took to Twitter to discuss his health on Wednesday, June 17, after he told Us Weekly exclusively that he has been diagnosed with cancer.

The famed comedian, 77, broke the news to Us that he is battling rectal cancer, after beating a bout of prostate cancer in 2012. Chong expanded on the news on Twitter, finding a silver lining in his diagnosis and thanking fans for their support.

Tikun Olam Announces Its First U.S. PartnershipIsrael's Leading Producer of Medical Cannabis Enters Into Exclusive Partnership in New York State with Compassionate Care Center of New York; Reunites with Canadian Partner MedReleaf

Recent cannabis (marijuana) use by middle-aged HIV-positive adults is associated with poor mental health quality of life, lack of social engagement and under- and unemployment, investigators from the United States report in the June 1st edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.

The world was sad to hear that Tommy Chong was yet again announcing a cancer diagnosis. This is his second cancer diagnosis in the past three years, but Tommy Chong says he will fight cancer in the way that he knows best — with marijuana.

However, is Tommy Chong’s idea that marijuana can cure his cancer diagnosis a medically proven one?

These days, most people associate Tommy Chong with the 2014 Dancing With The Stars season. Outside of DWTS fame for being one of the oldest contestants, Tommy Chong has had a decades-long career as an actor, comedian, and marijuana advocate.

If you’re an entrepreneur, and your company isn’t quite ready for potential investors, how do you acquire financing? For regular businesses, getting a loan from a bank or financial institution is the most straightforward answer, but that’s not always an option for those in the marijuana industry. Most banks won’t even open bank accounts for marijuana businesses, much less provide a loan to one.

Those in the marijuana industry looking for financing, more often than not, have to get creative when it comes capital; and it is exactly those kinds of people that Simplified Capital Founder Phillip Stuart is looking to help.

Wana Products on Tuesday announced the launch of WanaCaps XR, a family of extended release cannabis capsules that provide medicinal benefits for up to 12 hours.

Wana Products partnered with Cannabics Pharmaceuticals Inc., a United States-based Drug Development Company with research and development in Israel, that developed the proprietary technology behind the extended release formulation.

WanaCaps XR will be offered in three different formulations: capsules with a 10:1 CBD to THC ratio (WanaCaps XR High CBD Capsules), a 10:1 THC to CBD ratio (WanaCaps XR High THC Capsules), and a balanced formulation with 1:1 THC:CBD ratio (WanaCaps XR THC/CBD Balanced Capsules).