Growing

More than 180,000 student-athletes from 450 colleges and universities compete in Division III sports, the largest NCAA division; nearly 44 percent are female.

With a vote to be held today, Atlanta’s city council could add the Peach State’s biggest city to the ever-growing list of American municipalities where cannabis possession is decriminalized. 

According to local CBS News, if council members pass the proposal, repercussions for getting caught with up to one ounce of marijuana would change from the state law’s $1,000 fine and up to 180 days in jail to a city-sanctioned simple citation worth $75 and absolutely zero jail time.

Atlanta would follow the path of neighboring Clarkson, Georgia, where an identical rule-change passed last year, and cities around the

As you nervously check your account balance to see if you have enough to cover your taxes and still stock up at the dispensary this weekend, you should know that your Great-Great-Great-Great Grandparents could have cut out an entire step and paid their taxes with cannabis plants.
If you’ve ignored the hundreds of TurboTax emails you’ve received over the last three months reminding you to fork over Uncle Sam’s vig, let me remind you that your taxes need to be filed by Tuesday, April 18th.
When you offer your annual monetary sacrifice to the Lords of Infrastructure, Education, and

As California legislators bicker and argue about regulations for the state’s impending recreational cannabis industry, the companies tasked with supplying that market are already treating marijuana like they would any other crop - as big business.

We told you a few months ago about how cut flower farms in California’s central valley were being bought up by canna-businesses, and now, according to a new report from the New York Times, those farms have already established cannabis as a normalized part of life in the nation’s agricultural capital.

“California is destined to do with cannabis what we’ve done with every

SALINAS, Calif. — This vast and fertile valley is often called the salad bowl of the nation for the countless heads of lettuce growing across its floor.

A grey-haired woman in her early 60s daintily lifts small trays topped with different varieties of marijuana to her nose, sniffing each of them carefully.

"Which one would you recommend for someone with medical issues?" she asks salesman Paul Monot, co-founder of the DrGreen shop in western Switzerland.
Posters of bright green cannabis plants advertise its wares, which, like those sold openly in a growing number of shops across Switzerland, are completely legal.
There is a catch however: They won't make you high.
"There is no psychotropic effect of our weed," says Monot, at his store in

A source for the Globe and Mail said that the federal government is poised to drastically speed up the licensing process to increase the number of companies authorized to grow marijuana in Canada. The expedited process should help to meet the expected increase in demand once adult-use legislation becomes a reality in the Great White North.
Further to the producer efforts, another priority for the feds is to ensure a diverse array of large and small businesses growing cannabis.

Colorado’s Grow-Off is like Iron Chef for marijuana, a competition to find out whose prowess reigns supreme under controlled conditions. Instead of receiving the same theme ingredient (i.e. pork), 40+ growers throughout Colorado received an identical clone of a mystery cannabis strain.
Without knowing the strain’s genetics, each of these growers spent six months nursing their clone from veg to flower to harvest. The harvest date was at the growers’ discretion, and varied from grow to grow depending on when the plant went into bloom.

Colorado legislators have been busy passing new laws to control the growing marijuana black market in their state. When Colorado legalized recreational weed in 2012, they allowed each individual to grow up to 99 cannabis plants, or to assist someone else in growing them, a freedom that some have exploited to grow extra pot for the black market.

In the - often illegal - grower circles, a rule of thumb has emerged, partly thanks to numerous grower reports in hemp magazines, of "one watt per gram" as the standard for efficient growing under artificial light. But one should not be too dogmatic about applying this formula. Why not? Find out in this article.