California began regulating the legal sale of cannabis at the beginning of the year. In Los Angeles, which could grow into the single largest city weed economy in the country, most of the sales have been concentrated in one area. At the beginning of last month, all the legal pot shops open for business were […]
In assessing the success of California’s month-old legal cannabis program, the state’s top marijuana regulator said there’s some good news and some bad news. The good news is that everybody’s done a real good job so far, and business is humming. The bad news is that all those happy cannabis producers, distributors, and consumers might […]
The National Association of Cannabis Businesses is trying to get ahead of the regulation curve by proposing a set of self-imposed requirements for cannabis packaging. The instigation for this move, according to a statement by the NACB, was Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s withdrawal of federal protections for state-compliant marijuana businesses. “The rescinding of the Cole […]
The U.S. armed forces have been dipping into synthetic cannabis oil, and the fault may lie with the Army’s no cannabis policy. According to a report from The Fayette Observer, roughly 60 soldiers and Marines stationed in North Carolina, and another 33 troops in Utah, “experienced serious medical issues after using e-cigarettes or vaping products […]
Bay-area stoners with a record may be in luck, as a lot of their convictions are about to go up in smoke to join that heavy fog sitting over Frisco. The District Attorney of San Francisco announced that his office is going to erase or reduce thousands of cannabis-related criminal convictions. DA George Gascon said […]
The news in state cannabis law is: Maine’s potheads got to hold off a minute, Coloradans are about to get their weed at the touch of a button, and Virginians are just shit out of luck. This nation’s lawmakers have weed on the brain apparently. In just one day, the Associated Press ran stories on […]
Almost every day there’s a news report about some amateur blasters setting themselves on fire trying to make hash oil. There was, for instance, just yesterday news in the CBC of an explosion in New Brunswick, Canada, where two men were left in “critical condition with severe burns.” The two had blown up a garage. […]
About 30 million people visit Niagara Falls every year. They come for the falls, they come for the casinos, they come on their honeymoons. Even Superman and Lois Lane went there. But, hey, why not give tourists one more reason to come. At least that’s what some officials on the Canadian side of the attraction […]
Here’s the life of a THC molecule: born in a bud, cooked in a dab, smoked into your brain. The end. That little tasty molecule gives us so much every day. But, like, how? And why? Let’s go back to school and figure out how it makes the epic journey from being some seed in […]
Though Proposition 64 implemented measures to keep mega grows funded by venture capital and corporations out of the recreational cannabis market, a legal loophole might allow them to be formed through a back door. That’s why the California Growers Association (CGA), a trade group with more than 1,000 members, announced this week that it was […]
