Good news for croupiers, prostitutes, lion tamers, trapeze artists, and Lady Gaga: you can now toke to your heart’s delight in Nevada and not have to worry about it affecting your employment. Gov. Steve Sisolak signed AB 132, a bill which prevents almost all employers from making hiring decisions based on whether they pass a […]
The state of Colorado is making financial headlines this week after crossing the finish line into the billion dollar cannabis revenue club. Five years after legalizing that weed stuff, the state has generated more than a $1 billion in bud tax revenue. In raw sales, they’ve pulled in more than $6.5 billion and they’ve got […]
Archaelogists have found the oldest known evidence of cannabis inhalation, and boy did those old cats know how to party. The ruins of a 2,500-year-old sesh shows indications that the tokers of yore used “high potency” cannabis to commune with spirits and maybe even in their ritual sacrifices. Chinese researchers in the Jirzankal cemetery of […]
It’s possible that Dr. Christy Montegut has either made a breaktthrough medical discovery, but it’s a lot more likely that he’s just super wrong. The coroner of St. John the Baptist Parish in Louisiana has claimed that a woman he examined died as a direct result of THC ingestion, which would make her the first […]
Next year’s presidential election is looking to be red and blue, with green all over. Pretty much every democratic presidential hopeful and their mother has come out in favor of cannabis legalization. That one bald white guy has and that one bald black guy has and so has that one young dude and the woman […]
Prominent cannabis delivery app Eaze is facing a lawsuit over claims that it illegally processes credit card payments through foreign shell copmanies. But, according to the lawsuit, Eaze’s biggest crime isn’t that it allegedly committed all kinds of credit card and international banking fraud. Their most significant infraction is that doing so put them at […]
its current pace, cannabis is already outselling other popular American products like e-cigarettes. MBD predicts that by 2020, cannabis will outsell both Taco Bell and the NFL. By 2023, the sticky icky could be outselling gym memberships. Cannabis sales shot up last year and experts have reason to believe it could go up again by […]
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has just become a new best friend to stoners inside his state and out. On Wednesday, Polis signed two new bills into law. One of these will legalize public consumption statewide, making Colorado the first state to pass such an initiative. The other will allow for delivery of medical and recreational […]
One of the earliest adopters in stoner-focused marketing has pledged its commitment to make an actual marijuana product. Ben & Jerry’s, the storied ice cream company behind pothead-branded munchies such as Half Baked and Hazed and Confused, announced its intentions in a press release Thursday. “You probably already know that we’re fans of all things […]
Cannabis use is finding its biggest growth among older Americans, according to findings from the 2016 National Survey of Drug Use and Health. The baby boomers might have popularized cannabis use back in their flower children days, leading to a pot-based counter culture emblamized by Cheech & Chong and The Greatful Dead. Later on, however, […]
