Another one of the leading arguments against legalizing cannabis for adults is going up in smoke.

Last week, data showed concerns about children accidentally eating marijuana is widely overstated.

Monday, a major study from the medical journal Lancet concludes “medical marijuana use does increase adolescent marijuana use.”

The same activists who in 2012 successfully legalized the cultivation, sale and use of recreational marijuana in Colorado have started their next big initiative: The push to allow pot consumption in places now off limits.

Activists want a measure on the November 2015 Denver ballot that asks voters to OK allowing marijuana consumption in commercial establishments, including bars and clubs, that meet certain guidelines.

They hope to get the question approved by the clerk and recorder’s office and gather more than 4,700 signatures before summer’s end.

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Employers’ zero-tolerance drug policies trump Colorado’s medical marijuana laws, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday.

BREWER, Maine — An organizer for a community education series intended to raise alarm over the pitfalls of marijuana legalization in Maine said turnout was low during their first public session because most people aren’t that concerned about marijuana.

In all, five people who were not affiliated with the Bangor Area Recovery Network attended the meeting Wednesday that featured a slideshow entitled “Marijuana in the New Millennium.”

When Cottage Grove Mayor Myron Bailey announced several months ago on Facebook that his suburb would be soon home to a new pharmaceutical business, residents were ecstatic over the new jobs it would bring.

But a day later, when he clarified that it was for a facility producing medical marijuana, people in the community were stumped.

The reaction on social media, Bailey recalled, was "Wait. What?"

City officials then had to educate themselves about medical marijuana so they could placate residents over concerns ranging from public safety to odor.

CARNEYS POINT, NJ -- (Marketwired) -- 06/17/15 -- CannaPharmaRx, Inc. (OTCQB: CPMD), a leader in the research, development, and commercialization of cannabinoid-based drug products, announced today that it will be exhibiting at the 2nd Annual Cannabis World Congress & Business Expo. The conference will be held at the Jacob Javits Center in New York, NY from Wednesday, June 17 through Friday, June 19. CannaPharmaRx will exhibit in booth # 316.

PETACH TIKVA, Israel, June 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

OWC Pharmaceutical Research Corp. (OTCQB: OWCP), today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, One World Cannabis Ltd. ("the Company"), an Israel-based developer of cannabinoid-based therapies targeting a variety of different indications, is proud to announce it has received the first basic science study (lab) results on the effect of several combination of Cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on multiple myeloma cell line RPMI8226.

Based on the results, One World Cannabis will submit the clinical trial protocol to the IRB (Helsinki committee). The company expects to receive institutional review board approval for the study within 6-9 weeks.

More than 100 acres of industrial hemp will emerge during the next week after being planted Friday and Tuesday near Pembroke and Crofton. Kendall Clark and farm employee Landon Hopper used a Kubota tractor and a modified Kinze planter Tuesday to plant 95 acres of industrial hemp at Clark's Oak Lane farm. Clark says he decided to start out a little bigger than some farmers.

   
Clark says planting went well, but there were a few challenges he had to overcome to use a traditional planter.

Industrial hemp advocate Katie Moyer says it is exciting to see more than 100 acres of industrial planted in Christian County.

Hemp Historian Arinon Compass of Florida says Kentucky is at a critical stage in the reintroduction of industrial hemp in the United States.

Campaigners against medical marijuana often say they fear that legalizing marijuana in any form will lead to higher teen marijuana abuse, but a new study shows that this concern is misplaced.

Medical marijuana cards will now be available to those suffering from debilitating diseases in Georgia.

Georgia mother Corey Lowe has been waiting for the day medical marijuana would be legal.

Her 13-year-old daughter, Victoria Lowe, suffers from epileptic seizures and the family learned the seizures would stop when she tried cannabis oil in Colorado.

“It worked remarkably,” Corey Lowe said.

The new medical marijuana law allows families like the Lowes to possess up to 20 liquid ounces of low grade THC cannabis oil.

But first you have to qualify. The Georgia Department of Public Health said in order to get the oil people have to live in Georgia for at least a year and an application would have to be submitted by a doctor.

Earlier this week, the Colorado Supreme Court unanimously confirmed that although medical marijuana is legal, employers have the power to fire workers if they fail company-sponsored drug tests. Monday’s ruling is the latest in a series of decisions around the country denying job protection to state-sanctioned medical marijuana users who medicate off-duty. More than that, the decision is significant in that it sends a message to employers across other states wrangling with adopting laws to a nascent industry that is illegal under federal law.