BOULDER, Colorado — Humming to himself, Charles Jones makes his way up a muddy hiking trail snaking through the Colorado foothills on an unseasonably warm winter day, his colleagues Dave Georgis and David Lohndorf following close behind. Part of the way up the trail, with the city of Boulder stretched below, Jones stops and smiles at the others, then at me. “Should we do a mood?” he asks.

The only legal pot producer in Atlantic Canada is welcoming a recent court decision that could allow medical marijuana users to grow their own.

Denis Arsenault, CEO of Organigram in Moncton, says he respects Canadians' rights to grow their own medical marijuana.

On Wednesday, a federal court decision struck down regulations restricting the rights of medical marijuana patients to grow their own cannabis.

Arsenault doesn't see it as something that will be bad for the fast-growing business.

Organigram CEO Denis Arsenault hopes the province can take advantage of the new, booming medical marijuana business. (CBC)

There has been a lot of chaos in California ever since they first set up regulations for the state’s medical marijuana program for the first time in twenty years. They’ve had businesses shutting down due to a mistake that was not supposed to make it to the final draft of the bill, they’ve been working to come up with state and local licensing programs – and now delivery services may be compromised.

Marijuana enthusiasts around the world are celebrating 4/20,  a code-term that refers to cannabis consumption, and one’s ‘membership’ in the cannabis sub-culture.  4:20 is actually the time of day a group called the “Waldos” would meet outside of a California school in 1971, to go in search of a cannabis field they learned about. The Waldo’s never found the field.   An article in theHigh Times magazine, however, and a lit

TEMPE, AZ--(Marketwired - Feb 25, 2016) - American Green, Inc. (OTC PINK: ERBB) today announced that it has created a new addition to the company's cannabis operational plan. The American Green Xpress will deliver cannabis to approved recipients, starting in Arizona. The service will offer a new level of convenience for patients and will feature the development and integration of a software and logistics application for use in Arizona and other states.

Most people remember a time when they smoked or ate a little too much and were left to deal with the repercussions. Cannabis highs have been known to creep up on people, often catching them by surprise with a delayed spark of intensity. Due to the natural reaction of being passed a bowl, sometimes hanging with people with larger tolerances can pressure you into smoking more than you normally would. Aside from smoking, edibles can be a completely different world from vaporization or combustion since you're consuming all of the cannabis at once instead of smoking a few bowls over a certain amount of time. Whether the goal is to avoid reaching the red line or finding out how to recover once you’ve crossed it, here are five tips for dealing with getting too high:

On their 42-acre farm, Jacques and his team are strain-testing and formulating customizable cannabis oils for individual patients.

Walking into one of the grow rooms on Adam Jacques’ farm outside of Eugene, Oregon, you will find dozens of cannabis plants and a whiteboard on the wall with the note “Do it for Frank” across the top. This is a reminder of why Jacques and his team are growing medical marijuana: To help people.

Bills to eliminate residency requirements for pot business ownership, give lenders legal protections and combine medical and recreational cannabis retail outlets all moved forward easily in the Oregon Legislature last week, though none have yet become law.

While all relate to cannabis, the three bills seek to achieve a variety of outcomes for the young industry.

In my last column I wrote about dispensary operations. More specifically, I discussed structural organization, suggesting some departments to create in order to manage your retail store.

At Pure Green (my dispensary), we approach structural organization by emphasizing two themes — professionalism and accountability.

Professionalism can be hard to define, but the focus here is on treating your business like any other business.

Accountability means making certain that you define who is ultimately responsible for each department. Know where the buck stops so that when issues arise (and they will), you know who is in charge of correcting them.

Canadian medical marijuana producers plunged after a federal court threw out a series of regulations that restrict the private growth and consumption of the substance.

Canopy Growth Corp., based in Smiths Falls, Ontario, plunged as much as 12 percent and was down 8.7 percent to C$2.88 at 1:50 p.m. in Toronto, the most in seven weeks and erasing gains for the year. Smaller producer Aphria Inc. sank as much as 13 percent, the most since November.

In a ruling delivered Wednesday, federal court justice Michael Phelan declared Canada’s 2013 “Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations” invalid, saying they violated the constitutional rights of patients who use marijuana.