BudTrader.com, the largest online medical marijuana marketplace, announces today that they have over 750,000 registered users on their platform. The site allows users to post ads for medical marijuana products, services, delivery, dispensaries and storefronts, employment opportunities, real estate listings, and more.

Findings in a new report from Cannabis Consumers Coalition suggest that more women than men are now consuming marijuana.

Today, more women may be using cannabis than men, according to a new study by the Cannabis Consumer Coalition (CCC). In its recent survey on cannabis user demographics, the organization reported that over 58 percent of cannabis consumer respondents were female, while 41 percent were male.

The cannabis consumer advocacy and protection organization created an anonymous survey and distributed it through cannabis organizations, internal lists, and social media contacts. It garnered more than 530 respondents from all states, although most came from states where marijuana is legal.

The Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce hired BOTEC Analysis to conduct research and make recommendations regarding regulations for medical cannabis and industrial hemp to help promote Jamaican economic development, investment, and local job growth, while protecting public health and safety. The Jamaica Government amended the Dangerous Drugs Act (DDA) in April 2015 to decriminalise cannabis possession and legalise home cultivation for medicinal, spiritual and sacramental uses.

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1. Is a degree necessary to be hired as a grower?

No, you don’t. While some individuals growing for large dispensaries or suppliers do have a degree in biology or horticulture, many do not.

Live in a state with strict growing/smoking rules (aka, weed is bad), but have growing experience? List it on your resume and in your cover letter.

The majority of U.S. Virgin Island residents support the legalization of marijuana.

The U.S. Virgin Islands may have failed to legalize medical marijuana in the past, but one tenacious lawmaker believes he has the power to change naysayers’ minds in 2017.

Senator Positive Nelson, the political force behind the island nation’s 2014 marijuana decriminalization measure, recently told the Virgin Islands Consortium that he plans to reintroduce legislation to the Senate in hopes of finally getting a medical marijuana program on the books.

The lawmaker says that with all of the latest research that has emerged regarding the therapeutic benefits of the cannabis plant, he feels confident that his bill will be well received.

Minnesota's medical marijuana manufacturing companies have lost $11 million in just two years of sales.

According to financial documents obtained by the Associated Press, LeafLine Labs said it lost $4.7 million last year and $2.2 million in 2015.

Meanwhile, Minnesota Medical Solutions recorded a $1.2 million loss in 2016 and a $3 million loss in 2015.

"From a financial perspective, 2016 was a much better year than 2015," a spokesperson with MinnMed said in an e-mail Monday evening. "Revenues increased from less than $500,000 to more than $2 million, while losses decreased from approximately $3 million to $1 million."

The decision to include Port Macquarie Base Hospital in a trial of medicinal cannabis has met with a strongly favourable response.

The trial will include some 80 people and will focus on patients who are suffering from chemotherapy-induced nausea or vomiting.

The year-long trial will get underway shortly.

While there is mainly positive reaction to the decision to broaden the trial from two hospitals to a total of nine hospitals around the state, some sections of the community are concerned the trial is too little too late.

Benzinga recently had the chance to chat with Dr. Bryan Doner, CEO and medical director of Compassionate Certification Centers, a firm that’s merging education and entrepreneurship in the cannabis industry.

New Mexico’s medical cannabis industry has grown into a powerful magnet for money and customers.

Customers, sales revenue and dispensaries have exploded the past year with a total of more than 40,000 people now signed up to purchase medical marijuana.

Since Jan. 1, some 8,000 New Mexicans obtained a state-issued license that allows them to legally buy pot, pushing patient enrollment to 40,432 in April. With the recent growth spurt, enrollment has increased by 84 percent since March 2016.

The number of dispensaries increased from 36 in January 2016 to 56 in April, with new dispensaries popping up in smaller cities, such as Roswell, Hobbs, Clovis, Carlsbad, Artesia and Taos.

And that has helped fuel an impressive sales growth over the past year.

One Florida retailer is selling buds for vaporizer use only - but those same flowers could just as easily be rolled up and smoked.