By Lornet Turnbull and Katie Zezima, The Washington Post BLAINE, Wash. – Recreational marijuana has been legal here in Washington state since 2014. Adults just a few miles away in Canada also will be able to legally buy and smoke marijuana for pleasure starting in October. But between them stands the U.S. border, a thin […]
Published: Feb 23, 2018, 10:09 am • Updated: Feb 23, 2018, 10:09 am By The Associated Press ATLANTA — One of the Georgia legislature’s chief advocates for medical marijuana says he will not run for re-election this year. Republican Rep. Allen Peake of Macon said in a news release Thursday that this is his 12th […]
Published: Nov 22, 2017, 9:00 am • Updated: Nov 22, 2017, 5:11 pm By Gary Fineout, associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida nursery and a man who suffers from epilepsy filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Gov. Rick Scott’s administration that contends that state officials are flouting the state’s new medical marijuana law. It’s the […]
Published: Jan 15, 2018, 3:29 pm • Updated: Jan 15, 2018, 4:01 pm By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff Last week, in a nearly empty fourth floor courtroom of the Denver City and County building, a publicly traded cannabis technology company lost its headquarters office. U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer Torrington on Thursday ruled that […]
Published: Oct 12, 2017, 7:22 pm • Updated: Oct 12, 2017, 7:27 pm By Joe Rubino, The Denver Post A proposal that would make the 16th Street Mall smoke-free isn’t about public health, opponents say, but about creating another means to push homeless and impoverished people out of Denver’s public spaces. The Denver City Council’s […]
Published: Aug 1, 2017, 7:31 am • Updated: Aug 1, 2017, 11:29 am By Mark Maske, Washington Post IRVINE, Calif. — The NFL has written to the NFL Players Association offering to work in tandem to study the potential use of marijuana as a pain management tool for players, according to people familiar with the […]
Published: Jan 20, 2018, 9:40 am • Updated: Jan 21, 2018, 7:55 pm By Brooke Edwards Staggs and Elizabeth Chou, The Cannifornian Los Angeles marijuana stores on Friday evening got the OK to begin selling cannabis to anyone 21 and older with just an ID. The first state license for a cannabis business in L.A. […]
Published: Oct 12, 2017, 10:13 am • Updated: Oct 12, 2017, 10:55 am By The Associated Press RAILROAD VALLEY, Nev. — Nye County sheriff’s deputies are looking for two suspected drug-traffickers following a state and federal drug raid at an illegal marijuana farm on national forest land in a remote part of Nevada’s high desert […]
Published: Mar 15, 2018, 3:13 pm • Updated: Mar 15, 2018, 4:52 pm By Michael R. Blood and Don Thompson, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Less than three months after California launched legal marijuana sales for adults, the state could consider temporarily slashing hefty tax rates that some say are driving buyers into the black […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Open a pack of convenience store gummy candies and it’s hard not to grab a handful at a time to satisfy your craving. But doing the same for a tube of marijuana gummy candies purchased at one of Las Vegas’ legal pot dispensaries could leave users on the floor. Marijuana edibles […]