Everyone wants to get in on the marijuana business. States are making it legal and business is booming. Many entrepreneurial ventures can be started from merchandise to accessories to marijuana itself; many millionaires will be minted. Founders Fund, a major institutional funding company, and Privateer Holdings have invested in a Canadian medical growing facility, Leafly, and Marley Natural which grows recreational strains branded with Bob Marley’s name. MedMen marijuana (operational) consulting firm raised over $3.7 million from large institutional investors. British pharmaceutical giant GW has marijuana stock available as an investment opportunity.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's Department of Health is sponsoring research on the use of a pharmaceutical-grade medical cannabis drug to treat children with severe epilepsy.

The department announced the studies Wednesday. They'll be open to 100 children and young adults whose epilepsy has resisted other treatments.

The drug, known as Epidiolex, is not yet FDA approved but is the subject of ongoing drug trials. It will be available free of charge to qualifying patients.

The five medical centers participating in the studies are Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo, New York Langone Medical Center, Mount Sinai Beth Israel and the University of Rochester Medical Center.

There is some hopeful news on the horizon for those suffering with Alzheimer’s disease. A new study has come out of Tel Aviv University about the promising effects of THC on Alzheimer’s, the all too-common, debilitating, degenerative disease. The researchers went so far as to call it a “potential treatment.” THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) is the psychoactive component found in cannabis and can slow the production of beta-amyloid proteins, thought to be a hallmark characteristic and key contributor to the progression of Alzheimer’s.

This breakthrough, gives whole new meaning to the whole “this is your brain on drugs” campaign.

“Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?” – Henry David Thoreau

Witnessing the slavery and imperialism being carried out by government during the mid-nineteenth century, Henry David Thoreau was compelled to apply his transcendental philosophy to challenge the fallacies of the state. Civil Disobedience is one of the greatest American texts, and was a prime influence for Martin Luther King, Jr., who said, “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

Going back millions of years in history, our ancestor's diets were a mix of plant and protein based food. Days were spent lounging in the jungles, foraging for vegetation and fruits, eating termites, figs,seeds and other sources of nutrition. The fruits and vegetation they consumed may have altered the course of our history forever.

The video was unsettling.

It showed Adrian Coombs, a 4-year-old with autism, agitated, crying, pacing frantically, his face contorted in anguish.

At various points Adrian would repeatedly punch himself in the head, slap his cheek or wipe his eyes.

Adrian is the son of Nathan and Maria Coombs, founders of The Autism & Compassionate Care Connection, sponsors of the Cannabis for Autism conference in Rancho Cucamonga on Saturday, Jan. 23.

About 40 people, the vast majority family members of an autistic child, attended the event at the Victoria Gardens Cultural Center.

For many in attendance, the images were a little less jarring, because they were part of their everyday lives.

April 20 is celebrated as unofficial holiday of weed. Ever since the discovery of Marijuana, it has been a hotly debated topic. While a majority believe it to be the drug that destroys your body, there are a considerate amount who think that Marijuana is safer than alcohol and should be legalized worldwide. There are a few cities in the world where growing weed as well as its intake is legal. Below are some of the health benefits of consuming Cannabis.

Legalizing medical marijuana could save the lives of veterans in Kentucky, an Alexandria resident writes.(Photo: AP)

A worrisome component of veteran post-traumatic stress disorder with chronic pain is the constant, ever-hovering specter of addiction and suicide among the veteran population. The suicide rate is reported to be as much as 22 a day. That may seem too high an estimate, but a suicide a day is 30 a month, and one a day too much.

5-year-old with Autism before and after medical marijuana.

Her mother admits to getting marijuana on the black market to treat her daughter.

A recent Australian study examines a large sample of patients with chronic pain who have been prescribed a treatment with opioids. The objectives include the analysis of the mode of simultaneous intake of cannabis and opioids, its effects on patients suffering from chronic pain and the relationships between demographic and clinical data.