Israeli scientist Dr. Raphael Mechoulam established modern cannabis research almost single-handedly, first when he elucidated the structure of CBD in 1963 and then again in 1964 when he isolated and described THC. After a career in organic chemistry spanning 50 years and with numerous other important discoveries into the nature of marijuana under his belt, the father of pot research opened up to Cannabis Now about the past, present and possible future of medicine.

It might appear odd that California’s very first marijuana company incubator just launched, however better late than never ever.

Based in Oakland and started by two technology veterans, Entrance Inc. seeks to nurture both supplementary companies and business that manage the plant, such as growers, dispensaries, and extractors.

Restrictive social-media policies have cut off one of the most important advertising routes for marijuana businesses and forced the creation of a new social space, MassRoots.

Isaac Dietrich, seeing that establishment social-media companies shun cannabis users, helped create MassRoots, based in Denver, to fill the gap.Although social attitudes and laws surrounding marijuana have changed, social-media rules have yet to evolve. While a patchwork of states has approved forms of medical and recreational use, federal law still prohibits marijuana, prompting social-media companies to restrict advertising and accounts, even from state-sanctioned firms.

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In the past 40 years, marijuana has evolved from a black-market drug to a substance that is legal in some form in nearly half of U.S. states and is expected to become a nearly $35 billion industry within the next decade.

In 1964, Raphael Mechoulam rode a public bus from Tel Aviv back to his lab at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot while holding 11 pounds of Lebanese hashish in a plastic bag. He received his giant stash—the first of many over the next 50 years—from a police officer who had confiscated it from smugglers. “Advantages of living in a small country,” the chemist, now 85, says with a mischievous smirk.

Visit weed delivery startup Flow Kana online and you'll find colorful descriptions of "connoisseur grade" cannabis that's "nourished by the sun, moon, and stars" and packaged in Mason jars.

It sounds like something the hipster characters of "Portlandia" — and other socially-conscious urbanites — could be into.

A centre for research into the use of cannabis in medicine officially opened in Prague on Tuesday. The International Cannabis and Cannabinoids Institute has been created with the help of 500 million crown donations from the US and Canada and represents the biggest foreign investment in Czech medicine in recent years.

The International Cannabis and Cannabinoids Institute was established by a Canadian investor Benjamin Bronfman and its aim is to explore the use of medical marihuana and its components both with regard to existing medical knowledge and the experiences of patients.

Tomáš Zábranský, the country’s leading drug expert and the head of science and research at the institute explains why it was established in the Czech Republic:

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The agency expects hundreds of thousands of new units to be purchased during the holidays

Regulation of drones in the hands of civilian pilots took a big step forward today. The Federal Aviation Administration announced that all units weighing between 0.55 pounds and 50 pounds must be registered by February 19th, 2016. Anyone caught flying without proper registration after that date could face stiff penalties. The FAA says civil penalties include a fine of up to $27,500. Criminal penalties include a fine of up to $250,000 and up to three years in jail.

I attended college from the age of 24-28. I was a ‘non-traditional student’ as the faculty always reminded me, which always seemed like a passive aggressive form of age discrimination. It was bad enough that I couldn’t relate to most of my classmates because they had barely moved out of their parents house and didn’t have the life experience that I had accumulated up to that point. But college was still a very fun time.