Pablo Escobar is not a heroic figure. When you kill enough people to become known as “The Patron of Evil,” you are in fact the very definition of a heel. He’s not exactly a tragic one, either. When the narco-trafficante’s maxim “plata o pomo”—translated as, “Would you like to take a bribe, or would you […]
The people of British Columbia really seem insightful about marijuana. The Canadian province is beginning to let the public know about the rules it will implement concerning the legalization of recreational marijuana, and yes, they will permit smoking marijuana in public. Here in the United States, it seems nearly impossible to find a place to […]
111 SHARES ShareTweet Spread the love Adult-use marijuana will be legal and sold in California on Monday. While some towns have banned the sale of cannabis, the state says it is officially legal on January 1st. Despite the imminent legalization, state police pulled over the drivers of a licensed marijuana delivery service, arrested them and […]
Published: Aug 14, 2017, 7:38 am • Updated: Aug 14, 2017, 8:19 am By The Associated Press LAS VEGAS — For now, Nevada marijuana regulators won’t be able to issue pot distribution licenses to businesses other than liquor wholesalers after all. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/2uT17Fd) that a judge on Friday sided with the […]
Police in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, will not be using a roadside drug-testing machine once cannabis is legalized in Canada next month. The federal government recently approved the Dräger DrugTest 5000 for use by police departments across the country. The DrugTest 5000, manufactured by German manufacturer Dräger with U.S. operations based in Irving, Texas, […]
Published: Oct 13, 2017, 5:19 pm • Updated: Oct 13, 2017, 5:19 pm By The Cannabist Staff Featured guest: Stacey Mulvey, founder of Marijuasana yoga classes. Podcast: Play in new window | Download LOTS TO TALK ABOUT • While Denver is getting its first-in-the-nation program implementied to allow social use of cannabis at businesses, some […]
This week, actress and gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon announced that she supports cannabis legalization. Nixon, best recognized for her role as Miranda on Sex and the City, is seeking the Democratic nomination in the 2018 New York gubernatorial election. Cynthia Nixon’s Plan for Cannabis According to the New York Times, Cynthia Nixon came out in […]
State and federal marijuana laws, the CBD explosion, and business practices will be the hot seminar topics at this year’s Cannabis Con, being held May 29- June 1, 2018, at Miami Beach’s SLS South Beach Hotel. In addition, Yohan Marley will be performing a set at 12 PM on May 30th at the SLS. “The cannabis industry is quickly-evolving […]
There has been much trepidation within the cannabis community since the election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, and with him, the installation of uber-prohibitionist Jeff Sessions as his attorney general. There hasn’t been an attorney general who hates cannabis and those who consume it as much as Jeff Sessions since […]
Morroco has long been the world’s leading cannabis producer, but the conservative monarchy has managed to keep any talk of legalization out of political discourse—until last year, when the country’s biggest opposition party submitted a bill in parliament to at least allow cultivation for medicinal and industrial purposes. Now that effort has been dealt a […]
