Desperate patients seek relief at Toronto marijuana clinic By StaffTorstar News Service Torstar News ServiceToronto’s first medicinal marijuana clinic had it’s opening day on Danforth Ave. The door to the medical office opens slowly, and a woman steps into the cool interior. The 72-year-old has […]

Six Months After Legalizing Marijuana, Two Big Things Have Happened in Colorado  By Chris Miles  July 1, 2014 It’s now been six months since Colorado enacted its historic marijuana legalization policy, and two big things have already happened: 1. Colorado’s cash crop is turning out to be even […]

Dopechef and The Cannabis Champion team-up for a SEEDS Giveaway!!! Attention Canadian youtube.com/DopechefMedia subscribers: Matt Mernagh presents GARDEN-OF-GREEN and EXPERT SEEDS product unboxing. Matt discusses auto-flowering strains and growing recommendations. Plus stay tuned for an exclusive contest for dopechef subscribers IN CANADA over the next […]

Former Nanaimo Mountie heads security at marijuana operation Jake Ryan, a former RCMP criminal intelligence officer, has taken the job as head of security with medicinal marijuana grower Tilray. — Image Credit: CHRIS BUSH/The News Bulletin    by  Chris Bush – Nanaimo News Bulletin When 30 grams […]

The United Nations just released its annual World Drug Report for 2014. The report, prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, summarizes data on various illegal drugs around the globe, including marijuana. Along with drug trafficking updates, the UN also provides a breakdown […]

Infographic: Legal weed’s consequences Six months later, how have recreational pot shops affected Colorado? Sam Bollier and Sam Koebrich Viewing this from your mobile? Click here Article source Al Jazeera

Famous Marijuana Smuggler Slams Legal Pot Investors By Matt Mernagh – Wednesday, July 2 2014   Canadian marijuana smuggler Brian O’Dea calls out legal cannabis investors over their responsibility to freeing people in prison for pot. In a recent DopeChef YouTube report he talks about giving a presentation […]

Cannabis: A new job frontier for women? Interesting coincidence. The White House Summit on Working Families last week issued some statistics that underscored continuing challenges of gender inequality in the workplace. At around the same time, at the Cannabis Business Summit in Denver, a group of female business […]

VIEW THE GALLERY ^ May 3rd 2014 thousands gathered for the 16th annual Global Marijuana March in downtown Toronto, plus Save the Freedom Festival smoke out at Queens Park North

Appeal decision soon in cannabis extract case    BY TED SMITH  Ted Smith It has been just over 6 months since the BC Court of Appeal heard arguments in the Owen Smith cannabis derivatives case.  The stakes are high on both sides, and the results of […]

May 3rd 2014 Dopechef coverage of the World’s largest marijuana march in Toronto, the GGM and Freedom Fest in Queens Park North. Featuring Winged Knight, Matt Mernagh, Terry Parker, Froses, Daniel Walker for Mayor, Dan Dicks of Press for Truth, The High Five Girls, and […]

An inside look at the burgeoning medical marijuana industry June 24, 2014 CityNews anchor Gord Martineau takes a behind-the-scenes look at the budding industry. Video source City News

THE SPRAWL The Vape of Things to Come Toronto vapor cafes continue to serve the patron while bucking the system. By Jonathan Hiltz June 25th, 2014 Torontonians have always been familiar with that signature smell of marijuana wafting from alleyways, apartment building windows and other out […]

FDA To Reconsider Marijuana’s Schedule 1 Status  U.S. health officials are conducting an analysis on whether marijuana should be reclassified under federal law. The DEA has asked the Food and Drug Administration to carry out a review of marijuana’s status as a Schedule I drug, […]

Medical marijuana producer Tweed opens for business June 23, 2014 Tweed Inc. of Smith Falls, Ont., is one of 20 licensed medical marijuana producers in Canada that began shipping its weed to registered users last month. Its 168,000-square-foot facility in a former Hershey chocolate factory […]

The Pope is a Dope: Pope Francis Wants to Keep Marijuana Illegal By Mickey Ryan I’m an Irish-American whose family was loyal to the Catholic Church for decades, until a few years ago. I’m also a marijuana grower and dealer. My family no longer has anything […]

Jodie Emery on Marc’s Return at Moses Znaimer’s ideacity By Jeremiah Vandermeer, Cannabis Culture – Thursday, June 19 2014 CANNABIS CULTURE – Marijuana activist and Cannabis Culture Publisher Jodie Emery spoke today at Moses Znaimer’s ideacity about the upcoming release of her husband Marc Emery from US prison. In […]

A hard-hitting Conspiracy Culture talk featuring Brian O’Dea, author of ‘High‘, about his past life in the drug trade and doing time… FULL EVENT COVERAGE ‘High: Confessions of a pot smuggler’ an evening at Conspiracy Culture with author and producer Brian O’Dea… recorded on May […]

Boycott Canada’s Medical Marijuana Profiteers By David Malmo-Levine – Thursday, June 12 2014 Moreover the riches of the earth are for all … – Ecclesiastes 5:9, the Peshitta (Aramaic Bible), circa 2nd century BCE That we may work in righteousness, and lay the Foundation of making the […]

Rules may be tightened on smoking medical marijuana BY MEAGAN FITZPATRICK, CANWEST NEWS SERVICE OTTAWA — Canadians who have permission from the federal government to smoke marijuana for medicinal purposes are now facing impending restrictions about where they can light up. Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq […]

Excerpted from  author and producer Brian O’Dea talks about his speech in Vancouver to a well-suited audience of stock investors looking to get into the marijuana business and urging them to remember the drug war prisoners… Stay tuned for full event coverage soon, more info: […]

Dan Dicks of Press For Truth sits down with Olympic Gold Medalist Ross Rebagliati to talk about the circumstances in which he lost and regained his gold medal and how that subsequently led to the formation of “Ross’ Gold” a Canadian medical cannabis company which […]

Dopechef gets some words with Shawn Tedder at the Gold Stars Team – John Turmel booth during Champs Expo 2014. Topics incude medical marijuana, price of pot, weed vending machines, BC, John Conroy court injunction, Justin Trudeau, John Turmel, Free Marc Emery, licensed producer consulting, […]

Ryan Ruga Connolly from Grassroots California talks to Dopechef about the top caps and apparel coming out of Denver by way of LA, flagship store at 2209 Larimer Street in Denver, Colorado   Topics include: Legal cannabis in Denver, relationship with NORML, Method Man, legalization […]