Report: California Marijuana Growers Lagging In Getting Licenses
Nearly two months after recreational marijuana became legal in California, less than 1 percent of the state's known growers have been licensed, according to...
CA: Cannabis Business Threatens Artist Housing In East Oakland
An East Oakland warehouse is ground zero of a unfortunate standoff between art and marijuana. Over 30 artists are facing possible eviction, after a...
Jeff Sessions Says Prosecutors Won’t Pursue “Small Marijuana Cases”
Federal prosecutors won't take on small-time marijuana cases, despite the Justice Department's decision to lift an Obama-era policy that discouraged U.S. authorities from cracking...
CT: Marijuana Advocates And Opponents Speak Out At Capitol Hearing
Each year marijuana legislation is up for public hearing, Cody Roberts and Joseph Toth walk through the Capitol clad in marijuana flags. Thursday was...
Colorado Lawmakers Fall Short In Effort To Shield Recreational Marijuana From...
A $1.3 trillion plan to fund the federal government through the end of September won’t include protections for the recreational marijuana industry — a...
A Timeline Of Some Significant Events In The History Of Medical...
• 1922 Pioneering feminist Emily Murphy publishes an inflammatory book, The Black Candle. She claims that marijuana turns its users into homicidal maniacs.
• 1923 ...
Legal Marijuana States Have Lower Opioid Use, New Studies Show
Letting people legally access marijuana appears to reduce reliance on addictive opioids, two new studies published by the American Medical Association find.
"Medical cannabis laws...
CA: Ballot To Include Cannabis Tax Measure
While the Hanford City Council rejected the idea of commercial adult-use cannabis manufacturing, they did OK a tax measure on cannabis companies that will...
Canada: Assiniboia Prepares For Marijuana Legalization
The Assiniboia town council latest town hall meeting involved one issue most municipalities are going through, marijuana legalization.
Carol White, the CAO of Assiniboia, talks...
CA: City Of Redding Proposes Cannabis Licensing Fee
The City of Redding is proposing to the city council that the annual licensing fee for cannabis related businesses be $27,900.
This proposal will go...
Sen. Warren: Federal Government Shouldn’t Outlaw Marijuana
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says marijuana shouldn’t be banned by Washington.
In a Friday tweet, Warren said: “The federal government needs to get out of...
Why It Is High Time To Legalize Marijuana
What if I told you a drug was involved in more homicides than any other, and by an eye-popping 40 percent of those incarcerated...
California Has Slow Start To Marijuana Tax Collections
So far, there's been no tax windfall from legal marijuana in California.
Broad legal sales kicked off on Jan. 1, and state officials had estimated...
Wait, Did Gayle King Just Admit That Oprah Smoked Weed
I’m crying right now. I didn’t think that it was possible to love someone that I don’t know personally more than I do right...
MA: Councilors Propose Ordinance Limiting Public Marijuana Use
Smoking marijuana in public is illegal in Massachusetts, but city officials want to "give police some teeth" with added local regulations.
Under a proposed Lowell...
OR: Overproduction Of Marijuana Floods Market
Recreational cannabis has been legal in Oregon for only two years, but the state produced enough last year to supply every adult resident with...