A milestone in the mainstreaming of cannabis products was announced yesterday: the iconic convenience store 7-Eleven would by the end of the year sell CBD oil at more than 4,000 of its locations. The story ran in the Huffington Post and then High Times and for one beautiful moment it seemed that the world would […]
Both sides are gearing up for a fight over medical marijuana in Utah. With the state pushing back against a proposed ballot initiative to legalize forms of medical cannabis, supporters and opponents alike have taken legal action to settle whether the issue will even be put before the state’s voters. Last Thursday the group Drug […]
Responding to cries of racial disparity in marijuana arrests, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio has ordered the city’s police to stop making arrests for small possession. The New York District Attorney’s office released a report recently with data showing that a vast majority of cannabis arrests in the city were people of color. […]
It’s a long time since drug education groups tried to dissuade kids from using marijuana by frying eggs or enlisting the help of the Muppet Babies. And a bit longer since they tried to tell people that smoking weed would turn them into murderers. A group trying to school the young people of today on […]
Cannabis is going to go legal in Canada this summer, which will free up a lot of people to buy and sell marijuana as they please, but the country’s Senate was told last week that their new regulations have a glaring problem. The laws will permit transactions involving cannabis flower and oil, but not other […]
Medical marijuana will stay protected awhile longer after a vote from the House Appropriation Committee. On Thursday the committee voted to add a new amendment to next year’s Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill which will block the Department of Justice from using funds to interfere in state laws concerning cannabis. The bill addendum could have […]
Some people have feared that cannabis legalization might cause an increase in teen tokage, but it turns out that, for teen marijuana use, changes in public policy aren’t nearly as big as a factor as advertising. A study last year by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health actually showed that cannabis use among […]
The eighth wonder of the world is coming to Las Vegas: the largest bong ever made by mankind. The 22 foot-tall sucker has to be shipped to Sin City from Seattle, and is made by an outlaw glass-blower who says the record-breaking work is a political statement. The bong will be featured at a new […]
For a product often associated with hippy-dippy-earthy people, cannabis creates a whole lot of waste. There’s the whole water usage problem that weed cultivation creates, especially in big markets with spotty regulation. What’s worse is that about half the weed we grow doesn’t even get used. The Canadian government, due to legalize cannabis later this […]
It’s like Sophie’s Choice for stoner dog-lovers: keep weed illegal or kill hundreds of innocent dogs? The question was posed after several news outlets ran a story about the prospect of drug sniffing dogs in Illinois going out of work if the state legalizes recreational cannabis. As per The Week, Chad Larned, director of the […]
