One of the most important federal cannabis bills to ever pass through Congress is now on Trump’s desk. The 2018 Farm Bill, an $867 billion overhaul of farming oversight passed the House of Representatives with whopping bipartisan support, 386-47. The bill does a whole lot of things, but of most urgent concern here: it legalizes […]
Recreational adult cannabis use went full legal in Michigan last week, making the state the first in the Midwest with a legalized marijuana program. So, that makes for some history in a nation plagued by a destructive drug war for generations. But, black lining on that silver cloud: you still can’t buy legal weed anywhere […]
More weed legalization and more weed tolerance has come at a terrible price. Christmas as we know it may soon be no more, if reports from Fortune Magazine can be believed. In a hard-hitting expose on the uncanny spike in Christmas tree prices in recent years, the magazine proposed a surprising hypothesis. Supply has gone […]
It’s a sign of success: major weed vape manufacturers now have the same problem as Air Jordans, Rolex watches, and Gucci bags: knock-offs. Merry Jane is reporting on a glut of counterfeit hash cartridges which have flooded markets all over the world, especially in areas of the United States without permissive medical or recreational marijuana […]
Finally, we can all get that green monkey off our backs. Some researchers at Yale published a study Thursday about their clinical trial of an experimental new drug to treat the horrors of cannabis withdrawal. The paper was published in the psychological journal Lancet under the catchy title: “Efficacy and safety of a fatty acid […]
Many people turn to dealing drugs out of simple economic necessity. They have to support their children or pay the rent or stave off some monster medical bills, so they turn to slinging a little dope on the side. Hey, we’re only human. And it turns out the elected officials of New York State are […]
Cannabis is making some very powerful friends. On Monday, the leading Canadian marijuana company Cronos Group Inc. confirmed that it was in talks with mega-conglomerate Altria Group Inc. about a possible investment in cannabis products. While Altria isn’t itself a household name, their most popular product Marlboro Cigarettes is. In fact Altria is one of […]
Uh-oh, Ontario. Buzzkiller. Barely six weeks into the era of legal weed in Canada, cannabis connoisseurs in the province of Ontario found that they have some unwanted guests at their sesh. Consumers have been unwittingly smoking little almost microscopic mites. The good news is that it’s only one shop which is affected by the mite […]
Two German researchers have a bone to pick with the world’s drug laws. In a study published in the research journal Scientific Reports, they outline their findings comparing the toxic levels of the most common drugs including heroin, cocaine, alcohol, nicotine, and cannabis. What they found contradicted common scientific beliefs and drug regulations. In their […]
In the California cannabis business, there’s a dynamic of white market vs black market right now. Even after the state went legal at the beginning of the year, illegal cannabis operations have continued to thrive, with reports that 60% of weed sold in state is from the black market. And maybe consumers are right to […]
