The idea for a social network specifically geared towards cannabis users came to Isaac Dietrich, appropriately enough, while he was smoking a joint with his best friend. “We thought of all our friends who smoked,” Dietrich, who has been smoking cannabis “on a daily basis” since he was 15, told the Guardian. 

“Almost no one posted about it on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, because that’s where their families, bosses and coworkers are connected to them,” he said. “I wouldn’t want my grandmother to see a picture of me taking a bong rip every time she logs into Facebook.”

One morning in September, I logged on to the website of HelloMD, a medical start-up that promises to connect patients with doctors instantly over the internet. I filled out my personal details, explained my ailment – I often get heartburn – and entered in my credit card number to cover the $50 consultation fee. Within 10 minutes, a paediatrician licensed to practise medicine in my home state of California popped up on my screen. She appeared to be sitting in her home – there were a few teddy bears and ceramic figurines on a cabinet behind her – and she wore a red shirt, not a white coat.

One morning in September, I logged on to the website of HelloMD, a medical start-up that promises to connect patients with doctors instantly over the Internet. I filled out my personal details, explained my ailment — I often get heartburn — and entered in my credit card number to cover the $50 consultation fee.

The University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech., Ja)  in partnership with Ganja Labs, LLC, USA on Wednesday, November 10, 2015 officially broke ground at the site of the first state-of-the art Medical Marijuana Research Grow and Extraction facility located across from the historical silos on the North East of the University’s Papine campus. 

The milestone follows from UTech, Jamaica’s receipt of a licence on May 14, 2015 from Hon. Phillip Paulwell, Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining to cultivate marijuana for scientific and medical research.

TORONTO, Nov. 12, 2015 /CNW/ - Patients in Canada prescribed medical marijuana may soon have a new, safe, effective and smokeless option for how they administer their needed medication — and it's as easy as brewing a coffee, tea or hot chocolate.

CannTrust™, the only pharmacist-controlled and operated producer of medical cannabis in Canada, is unveiling its innovative CANNCUPTM medical cannabis beverage pods at the Family Medicine Forum, November 11 – 14, 2015 in Toronto. The first-of-their-kind in Canada, the new CANNCUPTM pods use a patent-pending method to produce single serve coffee, tea and hot chocolate containing high quality cannabis. The pods will be certified 100 percent compostable and compatible with leading single serve coffee makers.

With California on a precipice of a ballot initiative next year that could legalize marijuana recreationally, scores of cannabis startups are vying to capture what is the nation’s largest market in advance of such a big regulatory change.

One morning in September, I logged on to the website of HelloMD, a medical start-up that promises to connect patients with doctors instantly over the Internet. I filled out my personal details, explained my ailment — I often get heartburn — and entered in my credit card number to cover the $50 consultation fee.

After being the first state to legalize medical marijuana almost 20 years ago, California is implementing regulations across the industry. Commentators have focused on the effective and efficient processes called for in the new regulations, which are anticipated to bring much needed clarity to a large network of companies and customers in the cannabis industry. As previously reported on Tracking Cannabis, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a set of bills in to law on Oct.

Even if you’ve never tried marijuana, you might have heard of a strain called white widow. It’s among the most popular in the world (it won the so-called “Cannabis Cup” in 1995) because it elicits “a powerful burst of euphoria and energy… stimulating both conversation and creativity,” according to leafly.com, a website dedicated to recreational marijuana reviews.