27 SHARES ShareTweet People desperately fought for the best deals they could find yesterday on the biggest shopping day of the year. Recreational marijuana outlets joined in the offerings of discounted prices as well, and in Las Vegas it was their very first Black Friday since recreational marijuana prohibition ended in Nevada. Stories abound about […]
Published: Aug 15, 2017, 9:17 am • Updated: Aug 15, 2017, 9:17 am By Shaun Hall, daily Courier GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Josephine County in Oregon is doing a lot of business with the marijuana industry. To give an idea how much, department director Julie Schmelzer provided the following statistics: — Building fees collected by […]
The post Porn Star Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Sell $1M Worth of Weed appeared first on High Times. Pulling off a million dollar weed deal must be hard enough. It’s probably even harder for a high-profile adult film star. But gay porn star Chris Bines thought he’d try his hand at it. Ultimately, though, […]
The state of Montana collected $1.8 million in the first year of taxing the medical marijuana industry, according to government officials. The Montana Department of Revenue also reported that the state’s medicinal cannabis businesses had generated approximately $45 million in sales during the first year of taxation. State revenue director Gene Walborn told local media […]
Published: Nov 24, 2017, 10:22 am • Updated: Nov 24, 2017, 11:40 am By The Associated Press SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Northwest Iowa authorities say they arrested a Colorado man with 77 pounds of marijuana in his vehicle. Court records say 34-year-old Darrel Wait, of Thornton, is charged with two counts of possession of a […]
The headline acts for Denver, Colorado’s Mile High 4/20 Festival have finally been announced this week! Notable artists that will be performing include Lil Jon, Lil Wayne, reggae legends the Wailers, and Inner Circle, among others. The festival, which is currently the states largest cannabis centric music show, will also feature local Colorado acts along […]
Published: Nov 30, 2017, 9:50 am • Updated: Nov 30, 2017, 9:50 am By The Associated Press DENVER — A Colorado credit union — once on the cusp of revolutionizing banking for marijuana businesses before being thwarted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City — has resumed its quest to open. But going into […]
Published: Nov 20, 2017, 11:21 am • Updated: Nov 20, 2017, 11:40 am By Darlene Superville, The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The White House says the true cost of the opioid drug epidemic in 2015 was $504 billion, or roughly half a trillion dollars. In an analysis to be released Monday, the Council of Economic […]
The United States legal marijuana market is really all over the place. It is tough to make sense of it since each of the 9 adult-use states and 30 medical marijuana states have very different laws concerning the growing, distribution, possession and product availability of cannabis. Some states have relatively loose laws concerning marijuana, in […]
The post $30 Billion Global Cannabis Market Foreseen appeared first on High Times. You know the times they are a-changing when Forbes magazine runs a headline predicting that the global cannabis market will hit $31.4 billion within the next four years. This projection is based on a new report from the Brightfield Group, a marijuana market research firm […]
