Colorado has broken its own record for annual cannabis sales, with retailers seeing nearly $1.75 billion in weed money last year. That’s very good news for Colorado’s cannabis industry. This time last year, financial experts noted that Colorado’s weed market was starting to slow down, with a low growth rate of 2.5% from 2017 to […]
Amsterdam used to be the destination for the world’s stoners. One of the only major cities which allowed visitors to buy weed legally, it was the first home to the Cannabis Cup and attracted 420-friendly visitors from all corners of the globe. With the legalization explosion of the last five years in the United States and Canada, […]
Wuh-oh! President Trump has laid out his fiscal plan for 2021 and it doesn’t paint a pretty picture. The proposal includes: cutting assistance for struggling families and students, spending lots and lots of money on the border, and letting federal agencies waste lots of money on fighting legal medical marijuana. Currently, a federal rider protects […]
Illinois is running out of weed! The state just legalized cannabis on January 1 and, as is often the case for newbie states, it is having some growing pains as it gets used to its brand new booming market. The good news is that, as far as concentrates and edibles, Illinois is doing just dandy. […]
The Los Angeles County District Attorney has announced the dismissal of 66,000 cannabis convictions. The move marks a high-profile effort to reverse the negative effects of the drug war. In that capacity, the announcement is a clear success, but some have criticized its intentions for being geared more toward politics than social justice. In the […]
Lawmakers in Washington State have proposed a bill that would effectively wipe out most of the state’s THC concentrates. The move, which would dramatically affect the state’s legal weed industry, suggests a lack of basic knowledge of cannabis use, and could even negatively impact public health if passed. House Bill 2546 proposes that the state […]
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any more surreal in our nation’s Capitol Hill, residents in Washington D.C. could soon get a chance to decriminalize magic mushrooms and other organic psychedelics. The initiative would affect all fungi and plants that naturally produce the chemicals ibogaine, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), mescaline, psilocybin, or psilocin. That covers pretty […]
Joe Biden might be missing the old days right about now. Just a few short years ago he was the kindly jokey sidekick to a beloved president and about to ride off into the sunset while Hillary Clinton carried on the work of his administration. Now, as a presidential candidate, he’s been facing one controversy […]
Aurora Cannabis, one of the weed industry’s largest and most visible companies, announced a major restructuring on Thursday. The company is cutting roughly 500 jobs, slashing expenses, and booting its CEO. The drastic move is in response to an industry which has performed far below expectations after cannabis legalization in Canada and other major markets. […]
President Trump made some dubious claims about cannabis in recently leaked audiofrom a private donor dinner. The president also seemed to show a lack of understanding in basic federal banking laws in the audio, which was leaked by Lev Parnas, a former associate of Trump’s private attorney Rudy Giuliani and a key figure in Trump’s impeachment […]
