(HNGN) – Boys who smoke marijuana are 4-inches shorter than boys who have never smoked cannabis, according to a new study presented at the European Congress...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Nelly concert scheduled for next week at Missouri State University has been canceled days after he was arrested in Tennessee...
KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Not surprisingly, the legalization of marijuana in Colorado has reduced pot arrests, but a newly released study says it...
(Mirror Daily) – A new study has revealed that heavy pot use in adolescence is linked to weaker memories. It appears that teens who smoke...
BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The new mayor of the nation’s capital gave her constituents what they wanted — the ability to legally grow...
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaican lawmakers on Tuesday night passed an act to decriminalize small amounts of pot and establish a licensing...
by Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News As Caribbean governments prepare to review region-wide legislation allowing for medical marijuana use...
(Capital OTC) – The marijuana market in Washington opened last summer with the passing of State’s Initiative 502 (I-502), which decriminalized the use of recreational...
(CNBC) – This past year was all about the “vape.” But the trend in which smokers inhale vapor from tobacco, marijuana and other nontobacco-based liquids...
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JONATHAN FAHEY, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The pros are getting into pot. Founders Fund, the $2 billion San Francisco venture capital firm...
(Reuters) – The number of children treated annually for accidental pot consumption in Colorado has reached double-digits and a drug treatment chain has seen a...
KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Don’t worry about a federal lawsuit. But do worry about tax rates. Those are among the many lessons Colorado...
SADIE GURMAN, Associated Press GRANT SCHULTE, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s top law enforcement official promises to vigorously defend the state’s historic law legalizing marijuana...
KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Colorado will spend more than $8 million researching marijuana’s medical potential — a new frontier because government-funded marijuana research...
(The Washington Post) – The District will be prohibited from legalizing marijuana for the much of the coming year under a spending deal reached Tuesday between...
(Business Week) – Privateer Holdings Inc., a private-equity firm that invests exclusively in marijuana businesses, is creating a line of Bob Marley-inspired cannabis products as more...
The Economist, via BUSINESS INSIDER (Business Insider)—”FRESH and fruity, right?” says a bright-eyed young man behind the counter, wafting an open jar of something called...
(USA Today) – Voters in Oregon, Alaska, and Washington, D.C., will decide Tuesday whether to legalize the sale of recreational marijuana. But any new pot...
(New York Times) – The gray matter of the nucleus accumbens, the walnut-shaped pleasure center of the brain, was glowing like a flame, showing a...
SADIE GURMAN, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Pot may be legal in Colorado, but you can still be fired for using it. Now, the state’s highest...
(Politico) – Three in four players in the National Football League agree with President Barack Obama’s remarks earlier this year that marijuana is less dangerous than...
SEATTLE (AP) — An analysis of the first six months of Seattle police enforcement under new marijuana laws finds homeless people and African-American males are...
(Time) – Smoking ganja could be a minor infraction in the ganja-growing nation by the end of the summer. Possession of marijuana is soon to...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Why do Black Americans allow the war on drugs’ unfair toll on people of color to continue? Instead of putting a stop...
