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When St. Louis Alderman Shane Cohn filed legislation last year to regulate intoxicating hemp products, he didn't hear much about it from local residents or leaders of the fast-growing industry.
St. Louis lawmakers say intoxicating hemp seltzers and edibles pose a health risk because they’re unregulated.
Genetic researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have created many cannabis genomes to better understand what ...
Sen. Mitch McConnell wants to close a loophole that let CBD products like delta-8 be sold. Hemp advocates say it could crater a key Kentucky industry.
Long-term, persistent weekly or more frequent cannabis smoking leaves a distinct and partially reversible epigenetic ...
The Stanley Brothers created Charlotte's Web, the CBD supplement that’s worked wonders on seizures. Now they are developing ...
They all come from the same plant, Cannabis sativa. This plant contains hundreds of chemical substances known as cannabanoids. Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, is the psychoactive cannabanoid responsible ...
The Cannabis Control Commission has rolled out a new governance charter — three years after starting the process and a week after state lawmakers pushed forward on a bill to significantly ...
RALEIGH, NC – North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein says a panel he’s tasked with recommending cannabis sale regulations — including potential legalization of adult use of marijuana — should aim to provide a ...
After years of turmoil, a new structure for cannabis commission is worth a shot A House bill would overhaul the commission, while also regulating hemp-derived edibles.
Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and its sibling, cannabidiol (CBD), are produced by the same cannabis plant and have similar chemical structures but differ dramatically in their mechanisms of action ...
Cannabis, he pointed out, operates very differently from traditional painkillers like opioids, potentially offering safer and more nuanced pain relief.