It’s worth saying: Behind every one of these jobs is a hard-working, taxpaying American. They’re the botanists at Medicine Man in Denver; the oil extraction technicians at Dama in Seattle; the budtenders at Farma in Portland; the mechanical engineers at Apeks Supercritical in Johnstown, Ohio; the scientists at Steep Hill Labs in Portland. They’re lawyers […]
Published: Aug 21, 2017, 9:56 am • Updated: Aug 21, 2017, 10:54 am By Dan Gunderson, minnesota Public Radio CALLAWAY, Minn. — There’s a lot of expectation invested in a few acres of hemp growing on a hill overlooking the small town of Callaway on the edge of the White Earth Reservation. “I’m kinda nervous,” […]
Published: Nov 30, 2017, 2:55 pm • Updated: Dec 5, 2017, 10:58 am By Katie Shapiro, The Cannabist Staff Gifts that will help your horticulturalist’s home marijuana garden grow. Editor’s Note: Laws for cultivating cannabis vary from state to state and city to city — before germinating any seeds or planting any clones, take care […]
The post New York City’s Persistent Cannabis Dystopia appeared first on High Times. New York City, despite its liberal reputation, has long been the marijuana arrest capital of the USA. So, many herbal advocates were heartened by the recent poll (carried out by Emerson College on behalf of the Marijuana Policy Project and Drug Policy Alliance) finding that 62 percent of New York’s registered […]
Published: Aug 7, 2017, 7:25 pm • Updated: Aug 8, 2017, 7:23 am By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ marijuana-related missive to Oregon’s top official zeroed in on state police findings that cannabis legalization did little to cull black market activity, and took a similar tack to letters recently sent to […]
It wasn’t a happy 420 for a police officer caught selling drugs to an undercover federal informant in New Jersey last week. FBI agents arrested Ruben McAusland, 26, on Friday, April 20 for selling drugs including cannabis, crack, heroin, and powder cocaine. McAusland is a patrol officer with the Paterson Police Department. US Attorney Craig […]
Anyone trying to make a living in the legal marijuana industry has faced the absurd and frustrating obstacles resulting from cannabis being legal in a certain states, but not legal on a federal level, which still maintains a Schedule 1 classification for weed, therefore allowing the feds to ruin one’s business or life at any given […]
Ah, the holidays are officially here. If you’re like us, you probably haven’t done much in the way of shopping. You probably haven’t even stopped to think about it. In fact, you probably forgot that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are mere days away. But just ’cause you smoked that thought away doesn’t mean you should […]
The post How To Grow Organic Weed: A Step-by-Step Guide appeared first on High Times. The best cannabis cultivators always seek new ways to improve the quality of the flowers they produce. Some will still debate that there isn’t a difference between marijuana grown with chemicals and flowers grown organically. But savvy connoisseurs and well-informed […]
Published: Oct 18, 2017, 11:15 am • Updated: Oct 18, 2017, 11:15 am By Sari Horwitz, The Washington Post Attorney General Jeff Sessions is setting up a unit in the Justice Department to oversee a policy he reinstated to help state and local police take cash and property from people suspected of a crime, even […]
