Marijuana News
Nevada No Longer a Gamble for Marijuana Patients
It’s nice to know Nevada has taken an active step to promote a healthy tourist population. It just makes sense since you can’t experience Vegas to its fullest if you’re not on you’re A-game. So along with detox spas to cure a “swear-off-the-stuff” hangover, anyone with a valid medical cannabis card, from any state with […]
D.A.R.E. Leaves Ents Dazed and Confused Over Marijuana Missing As Gateway Drug
Lighting up a subreddit thread yesterday, a sharp-eyed ent (a marijuana enthusiast) made a seemingly significant discovery when observing that D.A.R.E., a Reagan-era anti-drug propagandist group, had mysteriously lost their reference to marijuana as a degenerate gateway drug. The Gateway philosophy surmises that individuals begin addictive habits with socially acceptable substances – think tobacco and […]
Washington: Marijuana Worker Protection Standards Released by Agriculture Department
As legal cannabis business grows larger, states are realizing standards need to be set. In the latest step toward standardizing cannabis cultivation, the Washington State Department of Agriculture released formal recommendations called the “Worker Protection Standards (WPS): Requirements for Marijuana Growers.” Standards in the regular world of agriculture are created by the United States Department […]
Canadian Judge Rules in Favor Of Medical Marijuana Patients Right To Grow Their Own Medicine
Informing Justin Trudeau’s newly elected government that Canada’s ban on patients cultivating their own medical marijuana constituted an infringement on their rights, a federal judge in the Great White North has smacked down the loathsome regulations restricting the rights of patients to cultivate their own medicine. Per CBC News: In a ruling out of Vancouver on […]
Louisiana: Politicians Contemplate Legalizing Marijuana To Fill $850 Million Budget Deficit
Envious of Colorado’s newest source of legal tax revenue, politicians in Louisiana are now reportedly discussing whether or not to hop on board the marijuana legalization train as they look at raking in some much-needed green in the Bayou State. Currently staring down the barrel of an $850 million budget deficit, Democratic Gov. John Bill […]
Utah’s Concurrent Resolution 11 Urges United States Congress to Reclassify Marijuana
Bizarre, poignant, and fitting: How apropos would it be if senators from one of the reddest states in the U.S. were the ones that actually cattle prodded Congress into modifying marijuana’s status within the Controlled Substance Act? While a seemingly far-fetched idea for some in the Beehive State, if passed, Utah’s Senate Concurrent Resolution 11 […]
Utah Lawmakers Consider Two Medical Marijuana Bills As Poll Shows 64% Approval For Medicinal Cannabis
As the newest poll demonstrates, there’s strong support for medical marijuana in the sometimes-regressive state of Utah, which has inspired a sense of vagrant optimism as politicians prepare for a critical vote today. Up for consideration are two competing medical marijuana proposals – including one that was trounced by the Mormon Church the moment it […]
Hybrid News: High Desert Town Goes From Prisons to Pot, Marijuana Found Innocent of Causing Anxiety or Depression
Helping to send real estate prices into the stratosphere in California’s high desert, the tiny town of Adelanto is hoping to enhance their prison-based economy with one supported by the cultivation of medical marijuana. And proving what most knew instinctively, new research published on Wednesday by JAMA established no cause-and-effect between the adult use of […]
Colorado Marijuana Businesses Respond to Concern Over Edibles and Kids
One of marijuana legalization opponents’ top talking points these days centers around what they see as the attractiveness of cannabis edibles to underage kids. Now, one group of Colorado marijuana businesses is taking action that could help take that argument off the table. The Colorado Cannabis Chamber of Commerce (C4) announced on Wednesday that its […]
Bill Maher Lights-Up On Network Television
Long-time marijuana legalization proponent, and NORML Advisory Board member, comedian Bill Maher, achieved some sort of milestone recently when he lit-up a joint during a humorous monologue on his HBO television show Real Time With Bill Maher. Now, don’t get me wrong. There have likely been thousands of entertainers and celebrities over the years who […]