Does CBD cannabidiol affect your driving? And how long does THC from cannabis cause driving impairment? A new study from the Lambert Initiative at the University of Sydney has some surprising results.

After serving more than three decades in prison for nonviolent cannabis offenses, a 71-year-old man is hoping to spend Christmas this year with his family. Richard DeLisi, who was sentenced in 1989 to 90 years in prison for conspiring to traffic more than 100 pounds of cannabis into the U.S. from Jamaica, could be released as early as Dec. 4 amid failing health and the worsening coronavirus pandemic, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.

With a state budget devastated by the coronavirus, some Democratic lawmakers are hoping the economic crisis could become an opportunity to coax Texas into joining a growing number of states opting to legalize — and tax — recreational marijuana use.

It's important patients taking prescribed medicinal cannabis products are not unduly penalised. But it's equally important we minimise the chance drivers put themselves or other road users at risk.

Marijuana or weed is a greenish grey mixture of dried flowers of the plant Cannabis Satvia. Its legalization is one of the few subjects which stirs strong emotions among doctors, researchers, politicians, scientists and policy makers.

AOC supports cannabis legalization and ending the war on drugs. Democrats and Republicans are usually divided on a range of big policy issues, however Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat-NY) said on Thursday that legalizing cannabis and ending the war on drugs are standing out as exceptions to hyper-partisanship in Congress.

A drone dumped hundreds of cannabis bags in Tel Aviv after its pilots published a COVID-19 message.

The Warsaw zoo has said it will start giving its elephants medical marijuana as part of a ground-breaking pilot project to test how it reduces their stress levels. Medical cannabis has been used worldwide to treat dogs and horses but “this is probably the first initiative of its kind for elephants,” Agnieszka Czujkowska, the veterinarian in charge of the project, said.

The president warned publicly this week that marijuana ballot initiatives were hurting Republicans.

Actor Jim Belushi is so pro-cannabis that he's now in the industry and says he believes his brother John would still be alive if he had been a "pot head." "Growing Belushi" premiered Wednesday night on Discovery and the reality show follows Jim Belushi's efforts to grow his legal cannabis farm in Oregon.

Researchers have found that people who use strains of cannabis high in tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive compound in the plant, are almost twice.

A study released Wednesday in "Nature" has the potential to illuminate why using marijuana prompts some people to withdraw socially.

On March 9, 2020, a German IT consultant named Ruben Weigand had a layover in Los Angeles as he traveled from Switzerland to Costa Rica. He never made it to his destination because US authorities arrested him as he was changing planes.

Cannabis is the most frequently used illicit drug in Australia, probably because of its increasing social and medical acceptance, as well as the recent legalisation of cannabis use in many parts of the world.

Marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington state has “produced some demonstrable and persistent benefit” to police departments' ability to solve other types of crime, according to researchers at Washington State University. “Our models show no negative effects of legalization and, instead, indicate that crime clearance rates for at least some types of crime are increasing faster in states that legalized than in those that did not,” the authors write in a study published in the journal Police Quarterly.

New research sheds light on the pharmacodynamic effects of cannabis-infused food. The findings, which appear in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, indicate that relatively small differences in doses can result in large differences in effects among infrequent cannabis users. “There have been very few controlled studies done in which cannabis edibles were administered, and most did not explore multiple doses,” said study author Ryan Vandrey, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University.

A sanctuary called the “Holy of Holies” offers “the earliest evidence for the use of cannabis in the Ancient Near East.” Who was the Kingdom of Judah’s pot dealer?

Our nation is in the midst of the greatest crisis in generations, with the Covid-19 pandemic impacting Americans’ physical and emotional well-being, while plummeting the nation’s economy into the worst economic downturn in our lifetimes. As the country begins what is likely to be a slow climb out of economic morass, federal, state, and local governments will be looking for new sources of revenue to replenish dwindling budgets and provide jobs to millions of Americans who find themselves out of work.

Lebanon has become the first Arab country to legalise cannabis farming for medical and industrial purposes – a move that could generate lucrative exports and foreign currency as the country struggles to cope with a financial crisis. Although growing the plant was previously illegal, cannabis has long been farmed openly in the fertile and impoverished Bekaa Valley.

UC Davis researchers find that California cannabis safety tests cost growers about 10 percent of the average wholesale price of legal cannabis. The biggest share of this expense comes from failing the test.