The dawning of legal weed in Los Angeles was supposed to be the end of the wild west for cannabis: the end of the semi-legit, semi-shady weed dispensary, and the beginning of the totally legit tax-paying cannabis retail business. But instead of closing off the frontier, so far Proposition 64 has created a brand new […]
A mystery has settled over Washington, D.C. The Office of National Drug Control Policy named its new director (a position commonly referred to as Drug Czar), and the new director is… some guy virtually nobody knows anything about. Jim Carroll was announced to the position of ONDCP deputy director on Friday, and will serve as […]
With every other county, city, and state in the union changing marijuana laws every other day, and subjecting more than a hundred different populations to more than a hundred different cannabis regulatory systems, it’s always nice when a government decides to listen to its citizens for a minute about how they feel vis-a-vis weed laws. […]
Virginia isn’t exactly the most swinging-est state when it comes to marijuana permissiveness. But what cannabis laws it does pass, it passes enthusiastically. In 2015, it passed a super-narrow medical cannabis bill that made it OK to possess CBD oil, but only for parents with epileptic children. The bill was very conservative, bordering on […]
Some community may about to see an inflation in hash oil cartridge prices, after 10,000 units of the stuff came into the position of the Nebraska State Troopers last Friday. Actually, to be exact, it was only 9,550 cartridges, estimated at a street value of $238,000, which was seized by troopers from a brand new […]
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 […]
