Medical Marijuana Zone

A clinical trial was recently launched by the Cannabis Research Institute of South Africa (CRI), in partnership with Releaf Cannabis E-Clinics, with the goal of observing how medical cannabis can help treat opioid addiction. The duration of the trial will last for one year as it examines how cannabis affects a patient’s chronic pain. According […]

The clock is ticking for a group of South Dakota activists to get a legalization proposal on this year’s ballot. South Dakotans for Better Marijuana, the group spearheading the effort to get the initiative on the ballot, said Wednesday that it is more than 3,000 signatures short of where it needs to be. The deadline […]

Catching a whiff of a weed shouldn’t be enough for probable cause, and South Carolina lawmakers want to make sure it no longer is. That’s the thinking behind a bill offered up by a Democratic lawmaker in South Carolina. State House Representative Deon Tedder “is pushing for a bill where the scent of marijuana alone would […]

A recommendation from the South Dakota Legislative subcommittee comes from a group of lawmakers working to draft rules to limit provisions of Initiated Measure 26 (IM26), a ballot measure to legalize medical marijuana that was passed by nearly 70 percent of South Dakota voters in the November 2020 general election. The announcement came from a […]

South Dakota tribes and advocates both want to see cannabis legalized.

The South Dakota Supreme Court will hear arguments for both sides of the cannabis legalization debate.

South Africa’s cannabis community mourns the death of Julian Stobbs.

Voters in South Dakota will have another opportunity to legalize medical marijuana in 2020.  The group spearheading the effort, New Approach South Dakota, announced Thursday that Secretary of State Steve Barnett that the petition to get the referendum on next year’s ballot had been ratified.  “There are no words that any of us could say […]