Why Weed is Legal and Dabbing is Boring in Alaska

By Parker Winship Anchorage, Alaska’s Mayor Dan Sullivan proposed a ban on unlicensed extraction labs to his city assembly on Tuesday. Local TV news outlet KTUU reports that this is an attempt to curb accidental explosions in amateur-run laboratories. Later this month, Ballot Measure 2 takes effect Alaska, making possession of up to one ounce […]

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Los Osos Dabsplosion Sends Two To Hospital

By Parker Winship A dab lab explosion sent a man to a Fresno burn ward Tuesday, according to the San Luis Obispo Tribue. Once released from the hospital, the local County Sheriff’s Narcotics Unit have said they intend to charge the 32 year-old Los Osos resident with manufacturing a controlled substance. The sheriff’s department also […]

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“Legit” California Cannabis Associates Charged In Murder Conspiracy

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 […]

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NFL Takes Stand To Reshape Future Of U.S. Drug Laws

Amid turmoil in the federal government over the future of federal drug policy, an unlikely force may be laying groundwork to alter the future of drug enforcement: the National Football League. Tom Marino, the guy President Trump nominated for national Drug Czar because of his experience as an agent of pharmaceutical lobbyists while serving as […]

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The Pros And Cons Of Weed Decriminalization In Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia is the latest city in the country to decriminalize cannabis, as of a unanimous vote by the city council on Monday night. Possession of any amount under an ounce now warrants only a $75 fine. Possession is still a crime in the rest of Georgia, warranting up to 6 months in jail or […]

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FDA Said Pot Is Not A Medicine Because Monkeys Get Addicted To It

Maybe they’ll add bananas to the Schedule I controlled substances list now. When the DEA decided in their infinite witness not to reschedule marijuana from their list of the worst controlled substances in the US last spring, many were left scratching their heads. Cannabis has enjoyed a long shelf life in the Schedule I category […]

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IRS Increasing Audits Of Cannabis Businesses

The legal weed industry continues its game of a Whac-A-Mole with the government as the IRS is increasing its scrutiny of marijuana businesses. The struggle to establish legit industry standards on par with alcohol or tobacco is a long and winding road. As soon as a state legalizes, the DEA comes in and steps on […]

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Medical Cannabis Extracts Finally Legal In Michigan

Governor Rick Snyder signed a seriesof laws last month to regulate the state’s MMJ program, making cannabis concentrates and medical marijuana dispensaries legal for the first time in the state’s history. Though legal medical marijuana has technically existed in Michigan since 2008, no one was sure what was legal and what wasn’t. Until recently, the […]

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US Government Developed Cannabis Extract For Prisoner Interrogation

When the US government went full throttle into World War II, some got better deployments than others. If you got the short end of the stick, you were a G.I. parachuting into Nazi-occupied Poland. But if you were lucky, you were sitting in some cozy office, making hash oil and experimenting on it. According to […]

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Pokémon Go Gets Florida Dabber Busted With Hash Oil

A Floridian dab-enthusiast is likely singing the blues today. Of all the ways to get caught with hash oil in one of America’s less 420-friendly states, Guillermo A. Cava-Nunez probably has one of the lamest, but it’ll still make a good story. The 20 year-old was just trying to play some Pokémon Go with his […]

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Upscale Suburban Family Arrested After BHO Lab Found

Extract blasting has officially gone yuppy. A family of four were taken into custody after an extensive BHO laboratory was found in the basement of their sprawling home (with a pool, of course) in the upscale suburban area of Westford, Massachusetts. Even the names of those arrested sound posh: Bradley Heath, his wife Diana (both […]

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Washington Is Going To Ban Medical BHO On Friday

When it comes to hash oil laws in Washington, the more things change the more they stay the same. A couple years ago, the recreational market outlawed concentrates while the medical marijuana fostered it. Now, after revisions to both the recreational and medical marijuana programs over the years, the two have switched places in regard […]

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Nailed It Extracts on the Las Vegas Concentrate Scene

“If it falls out of the sky or off the back of a truck, it’s legal.” That’s the state of wax affairs in Nevada, according to Russ T. Nail, founder and head extractor of Nailed It Extracts. Nevada has a medical marijuana system in place, but like most state’s programs, it’s a little eccentric. Unlike […]

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Donald Trump Needs To Get Dabbed Out Now

Current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is on a rampage. Like a baboon with rabies loosed from the zoo, he’s hopping from landing to landing, beating his chest, gnashing his teeth, and razing everything in his path. In the last couple weeks alone, Trump has insulted one fifth of our population with a racist rant about […]

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First Portable N-Butane for the BHO Market

The popularity of butane hash oil has exploded in the last few years, and so has the market for N-butane. There are a lot of questions circulating about the safety of butane hash oil or ‘BHO’, and if care is not taken, it can be dangerous. Historically, laboratory grade N-butane has been hard to come […]