Extraction artists in Maine could get their very own licensing system if a proposed bill goes through the state government. Under Maine’s old medical marijuana regulations, caregivers and dispensaries licensed in the system are allowed to perform their own extractions. However, legalized cannabis laws that voters passed in the fall of 2016 will ban the […]
A Canadian holdings company is making plays to become the biggest household name in cannabis retail. Golden Leaf Holdings and its pot shop franchise Chalice Farms only has six locations currently, but with a major multi-million dollar investment, the company hopes to soon spread across state lines. “Like Starbucks is to coffee, we believe Chalice […]
The actor who plays Professor X is becoming just as heroic as his character. In the X universe, Charles Xavier founded the School for Gifted Youngsters to protect special need kids from a society that didn’t understand them. And that sounds a whole lot like what Sir Patrick Stewart is doing as he speaks up […]
Former Miss Kentucky Kia Hampton could have gone to prison for a long stretch after one ill-fated visit to jail last fall, but the courts have taken mercy on the beauty queen, as reported by the Associated Press. Hampton was trying to do a friend of her a major solid and put herself in serious […]
Ingenious new technology has created a brand new way cannabis can get you lifted. The only catch? Only five people in the whole world can do it at the same time, and it probably costs something like thousands of dollars. But if you have a ridiculously large interest in either cannabis or aviation, and you […]
Colorado has settled on a universal symbol for cannabis packaging which will go into effect next year. The THC diamond, which has been adopted in other territories including Canada will be the symbol of choice, according to a press release put out by the Colorado Department of Revenue on March 12. The diamond is very […]
When President Donald Trump announced this week that the Department of Justice was going to seek the death penalty in some drug trafficking offenses, people might have thought he was just blowing off some steam. He’s having a stressful week after all. At a rally earlier this month, that dude Trump mused out loud about […]
Hollywood has always been a land of contradictions. For years, celebrities and executives have touted progressive politics while creating works that systematically slight minorities and women, and promote gun violence (though all this may change very soon). When it comes to weed, politics are similarly hard to pin down. The last couple of years have […]
Coffee and weed have a lot in common. They’re both good first thing in the morning. When heated or cooled to the right temperatures, they both produce some pretty killer extracts. But it turns out they also have something else in common, and it’s some scientific shit. Both cannabis and coffee both interact with endocannabinoid […]
California’s hefty cannabis taxes may be eating into the legal weed business, according to several officials in the state. Various regulations are stacking taxes on taxes, and the price increase may be steering consumers into the black market. Since legalization at the beginning of the year, some are calling for the state to reduce their […]
