UC San Diego will try to alleviate severe autism in children by giving them a non-psychoactive chemical found in marijuana, a project funded by the biggest private donation ever made in the U.S. for such research.

California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones sent a letter last week to the state’s insurers urging them to offer insurance products for the legal cannabis industry.

Illinois is one step closer to allowing people convicted of possessing small amounts of marijuana or paraphernalia to expunge their criminal convictions.

Healthy soil is essential to growing quality cannabis, but new soil can be prohibitively expensive.

Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., is teaming up with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on a bill that could finally reconcile the current discrepancy between federal and state cannabis laws.

Compared with older Americans 30 years ago, Americans age 50 to 59 and 60 and older today are a remarkable 20 times more likely to use marijuana.

Oklahoma's governor signed into law Monday a bill that allows universities and farmers who work with those universities to grow industrial hemp.

The most advanced countries for marijuana research are using science to defeat the stigma while getting people the medicine they need.

'It is time to stop treating marijuana like a deadly drug,' nation's oldest monthly magazine says.