It’s good to be smart. Nearly everybody craves the company of the brainy and bright. Smart people usually surround themselves with the intelligent gadgetry of modernity — smart phones, smart cars, smart watches, smart TVs, even smart fridges that can recite recipes and stream video on demand. It is true, of course, that gadgets can be become addictive. Then acquiring the latest expensive iFrill is not so smart.

An Atlanta-based medical marijuana company announced Monday William Wrigley Jr. II has joined as the chair of its board.

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Unsurprisingly just as tests for alcohol-consumption did not emerge during alcohol-prohibition tests for marijuana-consumption have only been in their infancy stages during the era of marijuana-prohibition.

As the legalization of marijuana for medicinal and recreational use continues to expand across the country, so does the concern that stoned drivers are putting lives at risk on the roadways. Hound Labs, a California-based company, has created a device that might help law enforcement detect drivers who are driving under the influence of marijuana. "We are trying to make the establishment of impairment around marijuana rational and to balance fairness and safety," Hound Labs CEO Mike Lynn told NPR recently. Nine states and the District of Columbia have legalized the recreational use of marijuana, and 30 states allow its use for medicinal purposes. How does it work? The device is housed in a small plastic box about the size of a large cellphone, NPR reported. If an officer suspects someone may be under the influence, the officer would place a disposable cartridge inside the device and ask the person to blow into the clear tube …

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo has appointed working group to draft a bill to legalize recreational marijuana.

Sam Vogelstein used to suffer a hundred seizures a day. Then he tried a marijuana-based drug that wasn't available in the U.S. It stopped his seizures and has just been approved by the FDA.

The link between tobacco use and later marijuana use in teens ranges across tobacco products, not just conventional cigarettes, researchers have found.

Georgia has become the first former Soviet republic to legalize the use of marijuana. However, Georgians are still barred from growing, storing or selling the drug.

As marijuana legalization spreads, police are asking for better tools to detect drugged drivers. Some police are now working with researchers to try to bring a THC breathalyzer to market.

Portage police will seek charges once the investigation is completed.

Nevada regulators and industry insiders say the state's first year of broad marijuana legalization has exceeded even their highest expectations, with sales and tax collections already surpassing year-end projections by 25 percent. Numbers from June are still outstanding but are expected to...

Some believe it’s just a matter of time before we see pot for sale for personal use. With that as a backdrop, how do parents start the conversation?

A group of Georgia legislators and citizens are meeting from August to December to study how the state can regulate cultivation and distribution of medical marijuana. Their recommendations could become law next year.

Initiative petitions that would legalize medical marijuana, raise the minimum wage and institute Clean Missouri will be on the November general election ballot.

Two of the first states to broadly legalize marijuana took different approaches to regulation that left Oregon with a vast oversupply and Colorado with a well-balanced market. But in both states pot prices have plummeted.

The Bay City Commission will consider more applications for medical marijuana dispensaries, including one located downtown on Center Avenue.

Marijuana legalization is happening across the country, and New York and New Jersey could be a tipping point, but voters need to step up.

The platform is struggling to handle contradictory laws about legal and illegal use of pot

While they keep pushing for federal policy changes that would encourage clinical trials involving marijuana — some local, state and federal leaders are also working to advance other types of …

In a big, fat eff you to Jefferson Beauregard “I hate weed (and immigrants)” Sessions, the head of the District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan announced Tuesday that he will no longer prosecute marijuana possessions in Manhattan, except in cases where weed is being sold or if an individual involved “poses a significant threat to public safety.”

NEW YORK (AP) - Caught in New York City with a doobie or a dime bag? The consequences you'll face vary from borough to borough. Manhattan on Wednesday joined Brooklyn in declining to pursue most cases in which people are accused of smoking or possessing small amounts of pot in public. But those kinds of cases are still being tried in Staten Island, Queens and the Bronx, underscoring a stark divide among the city's five elected district attorneys. As the city moves toward decriminalization and state leaders grapple with potential marijuana legalization, where you light up a joint in the Big Apple can be the difference between a criminal record and a slap on the wrist.

Minnesota residents with autism or obstructive sleep apnea can now qualify for the state’s medical marijuana program. Those additions are effective Wednesday, marking the latest expansion of the pr…

Prosecutors in Manhattan will no longer pursue low-level marijuana cases.

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Molson Coors is entering a joint venture with The Hydropothecary Corporation, a Canadian marijuana producer, to make non-alcoholic cannabis-infused beverages. It's the latest sign that beer makers and alcohol brands are pushing into the cannabis industry.

The No. 2 U.S. brewer is forming a joint venture with a Canadian cannabis producer to develop non-alcoholic, marijuana-infused beverages for the Canadian market.

    On Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said the New York Police Department will no longer prosecute people for smoking marijuana in public. The new policy will go into effect Wednesday, August 1st. No further arrests will be made, unless the smoker is suspected of selling pot or poses a serious threat to public safety. In a press release, Democrat Vance explained that it’s | Read More »

The district attorney says there is no public safety rationale to continue prosecuting people for marijuana possession or use