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Colorado Government Asks Its Stoners While They Like To Drive High

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. […]

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Compton and Inglewood Both Ban Legal Cannabis Sales

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 […]

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Cali’s Cannabis Czar Says State Can Expect Weed Shortages

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 […]

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Is Army Ban On Weed Causing Surge In Dangerous Synthetic Hash Oil?

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 […]

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San Francisco To Wipe Clean Thousands Of Weed Convictions

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 […]

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Study Shows Hash OIl Burns Harder And Costlier To Treat Than Other Types

Almost every day there’s a news report about some amateur blasters setting themselves on fire trying to make hash oil. There was, for instance, just yesterday news in the CBC of an explosion in New Brunswick, Canada, where two men were left in “critical condition with severe burns.” The two had blown up a garage. […]

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Niagara Falls Could Become New Cannabis Tourism Hot Spot

About 30 million people visit Niagara Falls every year. They come for the falls, they come for the casinos, they come on their honeymoons. Even Superman and Lois Lane went there. But, hey, why not give tourists one more reason to come. At least that’s what some officials on the Canadian side of the attraction […]

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Science of 710: School for Smart Dabbers

Here’s the life of a THC molecule: born in a bud, cooked in a dab, smoked into your brain. The end. That little tasty molecule gives us so much every day. But, like, how? And why? Let’s go back to school and figure out how it makes the epic journey from being some seed in […]

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Can Small California Farmers Stop The Coming Wave Of Mega Grows?

Though Proposition 64 implemented measures to keep mega grows funded by venture capital and corporations out of the recreational cannabis market, a legal loophole might allow them to be formed through a back door. That’s why the California Growers Association (CGA), a trade group with more than 1,000 members, announced this week that it was […]

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U.S. States And Territories Unite To Ask Feds For Cannabis Banks

Cuz Congress don’t have enough problems. On top of the government shutdown and the fact that they’re going to have to figure out just how racist they want to be with the future of the DREAMer deal, now they got a bunch of states asking them to figure out a way to let the country’s […]

Is PotCoin About To Make A Comeback As The Weed Industry’s Cryptocurrency?

Ever since the establishment of a legal marijuana market, banking has been one of the major problems facing the industry. Because cannabis is still illegal at a federal level, it’s dicey for a bank to engage in business with them. The U.S. Treasury and Justice departments said they’ll leave banks alone, provided they watch their […]

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How Does The Wax Liquidizer Work?

Cannabis review site 420 Pony announced this week the winner of their 2016 420 Product of the Year Award: the Wax Liquidizer. The Wax Liquidizer, if you don’t know, is a solution in a bottle that will, like it sounds, liquidize concentrates so that they can be used in a vape pen. A neat trick, […]

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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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What Can Isolated Terpenes Do For Cannabis Flower?

Terpenes have come to the forefront of extraction artistry over the last couple of years. These essential oils are extracted and isolated from cannabis and then mixed into cannabinoid extracts. Kind of like cooking spices for weed concentrates, terpenes can heighten and alter flavor, but also change the medical effects of a wax and the […]

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Colorado Raises Butane Limit 525% For Concentrates

If you like your cannabis extracts of the ‘tane soup variety, then Colorado is soon to become your own personal Campbell’s factory. Beginning January 1, the limits on butane and other volatile solvents are going to be raised. Not by a little, by a lot. The limit on butane in marijuana concentrates is currently 800 […]