The Trump Administration is pushing hard against pregnant mothers smoking weed, with the Department of Health and Human services issuing a new advisory against the practice. Surgeon General Jerome Adams held a press conference on Thursday, in which he tried to put a fright in people by saying, “While the perceived harm of marijuana is […]
The state of Washington has decided to make every day opposite day when it comes to weed. In most of the country, while it’s still illegal to mess with recreational cannabis, hemp-derived CBD products have been flooding the shelves. In Washington, however, it’s the Upside Down. Recreational weed is totally legal, and every mother-loving 21-year-old […]
Tens of thousands of low-level cannabis arrests are soon to expunged in two of the nation’s biggest cities. New cannabis laws in Illinois and New York are bringing with them efforts to undo some of the damage done by the drug war in the Windy City and the Big Apple. Illinoisans are about to live […]
It just goes to show you: the more you got, the more you want. California is making close to a million dollars off of cannabis a day, but they still aren’t happy. Or, in the words of the Associated Press, “California is living with diminished expectations” after getting its check from the tax office. See, […]
It’s been a rocky road to medical marijuana in the great state of Utah. Since voters passed ballot initiative Proposition 2 last year, the Governor has replaced the bill with another MMJ initiative and then up and changed the new bill too. The first time they changed the proposal, the idea was to create a […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced it’s looking into the problem of public corruption in the cannabis industry, particularly kickbacks and under the table bribes for issuing licenses. In a somewhat radical use of the podcast medium, the FBI has released a 72-second episode about “the public corruption threat [emerging] in the expanding cannabis […]
Oregon has possibly the biggest cannabis surplus in the world, and yet some in the industry are claiming there’s a “shortage” of legal bud in the state. So what exactly is the deal? The surplus has been reported upon ad nauseam this year. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) released a report in January, claiming […]
A rash of acute respiratory episodes have hospitalized at least seven people in California, pointing back to bad vape cartridges and reminiscent of similar incidents in other parts of the country. The Public Health Department of Kings County, California this week released a warning against the use of vape cartridges from unlicensed vendors. According to […]
Pretty much everybody running in the Democratic presidential primary has endorsed some form of cannabis legalization. Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Beto O’Rourke have done it. And even jolly Joe Biden says he’d be okay with decriminalizing the stuff. Many of them have even laid out plans for how they’ll work with congress […]
Um, this one sucks. After the horrifying mass shooting in Dayton Ohio last weekend, in which ten people were killed, including the shooter, and another 27 injured, one Republican Ohio lawmaker made an unhinged, unfocused rant against all things vaguely leftist, including legal cannabis. Candice Keller is a state house representative whose district is roughly […]
