Tag Archives: Politics

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Washington state lawmakers bring bill to ban most cannabis concentrates

By Ben Adlin Citing concerns about a suspected connection between cannabis and psychosis, a group [...]

21
Jan
Melissa Gass is a plaintiff in a lawsuit by the ACLU of Pennsylvania against the Lebanon County district court over its decision to bar people on probation and parole from using legal medical marijuana. COURTESY OF ACLU OF PENNSYLVANIA
People on Probation and Parole Are Being Denied Perfectly Legal Medical Weed

Despite statewide legalization, some counties ban probationers and parolees from using medical marijuana. So the [...]

17
Jan
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Newfound Cannabis Compound May Be 30 Times More Potent Than THC

But we still don't know if it causes a high or has medical benefits. [...]

10
Jan
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5 cannabis strains to be excited about in 2020

David Downs and Dante Jordan Each year we try to get ahead of the cannabis [...]

09
Jan
Cannabis has amazing potential but the industry needs to be able to do more research. SHUTTERSTOCK
2020 could be a defining year for the cannabis industry

By Alicia Wallace New York (CNN Business)2019 was a momentous year for the cannabis industry: [...]

09
Jan
Weed's Waste Problem: The Perils of Plastic May Haunt the Cannabis Industry
Weed’s Waste Problem: The Perils of Plastic May Haunt the Cannabis Industry

While there are resources to make cannabis companies more sustainable, there’s little incentive to utilize [...]

08
Jan
Students binge drink less when cannabis is legal: study
Students binge drink less when cannabis is legal: study

BY PATRICK CAIN Students are less likely to drink heavily in U.S. states that have [...]

08
Jan
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Illinois cannabis dispensaries open New Year’s Day for adult-use sales

By David Downs Freedom rings in the New Year, as tens of thousands of cannabis [...]

26
Dec
Florida man passes out marijuana 'because it was Christmas'
Florida man passes out marijuana ‘because it was Christmas’

A St. Pete man was in the sharing spirit Saturday when he was passing out [...]

24
Dec
Cannabis Wafer Tablets for medical purposes from the Rangsit University laboratory seen being display at Rangsit University in Pathum Thani Province, north of Bangkok. Photo by Guillaume Payen/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
House-Passed Marijuana Amendments Stripped From Congressional Spending Bills

By Kyle Jaeger House Democrats failed to get a number of marijuana-related provisions attached to [...]

18
Dec
State marijuana reforms could spark tens of millions of dollars in business opportunities
Cannabis is a booming industry that is seeing stigma fade

By: Jason Dinant MJ BizCon, the annual marijuana business convention, is happening now in Las [...]

13
Dec
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MLB Officially Removes Marijuana From Banned Substances List For Baseball Players

By Kyle Jaeger Major League Baseball (MLB) and the MLB players union announced on Thursday [...]

13
Dec
Biotech Institute lists no executive officers and has no corporate home office. So... WTF is it? (Gillian Levine for Leafly)
This company filed the first cannabis DNA patent—and nobody knows who they are

By David Bienenstock The world first learned about Biotech Institute LLC two years ago in an [...]

09
Dec
U.S. Virgin Islands Considering Cannabis Legalization

Gov. Albert Bryan of the U.S. Virgin Islands is considering adult-use cannabis legalization as a [...]

04
Dec
West Coast Cities Have More Cannabis Users Than Cigarette Smokers

According to polling data from the major metro areas of Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco, [...]

04
Dec