As the fight for cannabis legalization, medical or otherwise, rages on in the U.S., Florida remains one of the most heated battlefields. Apparently, however, some people are not waiting for the law to catch up with their entrepreneurial spirits.

Global patterns of cannabis cultivation have followed a fascinating development, from highly concentrated production in certain developing countries to decentralized production in almost every country around the world (UNODC, 2014). Historically, the spread of cannabis cultivation across the globe reflected the industrial utility of hemp; the widespread use of cannabis as a recreational drug did not appear until much later (Abel, 1980, Booth, 2003). It is with the emergence of modern patterns of cannabis use in the developed world that we have seen major changes in patterns of cannabis production. As demand for cannabis increased globally, fuelled by the developments of the “counter-culture” of the 1960s and 1970s, so cultivation in the developing world began to take on new dimensions.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) will unveil its plans for cannabis research and will on Thursday receive its Ganja Research Licence.

This unveiling is scheduled to take place on the university’s Papine campus under the “Medical Marijuana Integration Day”.

The day’s activities will commence with an opening ceremony at 8:30 am, during which Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Phillip Paulwell will give an address.

Minister Paulwell is also expected to present the Ganja Research Licence to the institution.

An applicant who was denied a license is suing the state.

CHICAGO -- Illinois has turned over 13,000 pages of documents to attorneys challenging how the state awarded one medical-marijuana business license, marking the first release of such material.

While the records remain closed to journalists and the general public, the disclosure represents a win for attorneys representing a disappointed applicant and might eventually shed light on a secretive process. The case is one of several similar lawsuits being closely watched by the new marijuana industry.

“When we want to raise capital,” Dooma Wendschuh, the thirty-eight-year-old co-founder of a cannabis company called ebbu, said, “I go up to someone and say, ‘Would you like to invest in my company? Here’s how it will work. One: you may go to prison for making this investment. Two: I may go to prison, and you might lose all your money. Three: our minimum investment is two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Sure you want to play ball?’ ”

-demand transportation company SideCar has partnered with Meadow, a “full-service cannabis concierge,” to do medical marijuana deliveries for patients in the Bay Area, the two San Francisco start-ups announced Tuesday.Under the arrangement, when medical marijuana card-holding patients order cannabis from one of Meadow’s partner dispensaries, some of the deliveries will now be made by SideCar drivers.

Meadow CEO David Hua said the partnership offers dispensaries a turnkey delivery system, allowing them to leverage SideCar’s technology and network of drivers instead of investing in their own delivery services.

The Local Licensing Authority will weigh a change of ownership application associated with a potential $8 million sale of Aspen Green Dragon, one of six cannabis dispensers in town, at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

Ryan Milligan, co-owner of Denver-based cannabis company Greenwerkz, filed the application recently with City Clerk Linda Manning. Today’s hearing, which begins at 9 a.m., represents the first set of hurdles in the potential deal with Green Dragon.

DENVER, May 12, 2015 -- CannLabs, Inc. (OTCQB: CANL), today announced the launch of a custom content science channel on theCannabist.co, The Denver Post's cannabis-focused news and culture website. Launched in December of 2013 to cover legalized marijuana in Colorado, The Cannabist features news, strain reviews, recipes, store maps and more about the state's expanding marijuana industry. Ricardo Baca, the nation's first major newspaper marijuana editor, edits the site.

LOS ANGELES May 12 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Kush Bottles North America's premier supplier of customizable child-resistant packaging solutions and accessories for the marijuana industry announced today that they have acquired Dank Bottles LLC dba Kush Bottles Colorado. The acquisition comes one year after an agreement was struck between the two companies granting Dank Bottles an exclusive distributorship of Kush Bottles products in the state of Colorado.

Greg Gamet Justin Jones and Bryan Sullivan the founders of Dank Bottles will remain active leaders in the Colorado operations and will take on additional business development responsibilities nationally.

Many veterans are turning to marijuana to ease symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder, despite concerns from the medical community about how effective pot is at treating the condition.

There are a "tremendous" number of testimonials from patients with post traumatic stress disorder who say dried cannabis helps them, but there is a lack of randomized, controlled trials, said Dr. Stewart Cameron, a family physician and professor at Dalhousie University's faculty of medicine.

In September 2014, the College of Family Physicians of Canada released a document to help doctors decide how to use cannabis in their practices.