Published: Mar 9, 2018, 5:00 am • Updated: Mar 9, 2018, 10:04 pm By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff ANAHEIM, Calif. – Soy milk, almond butter, kale chips, chai … CBD. Natural products businesses are no strangers to ferrying once-unknown ingredients and supplements into the mainstream, and if the prognosticators at the industry’s largest trade […]
Published: Dec 22, 2017, 2:46 pm • Updated: Dec 22, 2017, 3:20 pm Cannabist Staff Cannabist readers, here’s your chance to weigh in on your favorite cannabis experiences of 2017. Votes will be accepted through midnight December 31, 2017 and results will be announced the first week of January. Note: Please be cool and vote […]
Published: Feb 11, 2018, 12:19 pm • Updated: Feb 11, 2018, 12:19 pm By The Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. — While possessing small amounts of marijuana will be legal in Vermont later this year, it will remain off-limits on the waters of Lake Champlain. The lake is considered federal water because it borders Canada. The […]
Published: Nov 1, 2017, 5:57 pm • Updated: Nov 1, 2017, 8:12 pm By Alex Pasquariello, The Cannabist Staff A cannabis company has an important announcement for travelers departing one of California’s busiest airports. “Cannabis is legal. Traveling with it is not. Leave it in California,” reads an advertisement placed in the bottom of trays […]
Published: Nov 6, 2017, 9:50 am • Updated: Nov 6, 2017, 9:51 am By Patrick Whittle, Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine — Maine lawmakers are returning to Augusta on Monday following Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s veto of a bill to regulate and tax the sale of marijuana. A two-thirds vote of lawmakers present Monday evening will […]
Published: Nov 22, 2017, 12:42 pm • Updated: Nov 22, 2017, 12:42 pm By The Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A Michigan judge has thrown out a case against two former corrections officers who lost their jobs after being arrested and charged with possession of marijuana-infused butter. Michael Frederick and Todd VanDoorne were charged […]
Published: Mar 12, 2018, 1:35 pm • Updated: Mar 12, 2018, 1:35 pm By The Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A new round of medical marijuana licensing was intended to increase diversity in Maryland’s industry, but the proposed legislation instead favors companies that already have licenses. The Baltimore Sun reports the concept that passed the […]
PEORIA, Ill. — On the evening of March 27 four friends hung out at a Pekin home talking and smoking Spice. By mid-morning the next day, all four were in UnityPoint Health-Methodist suffering from massive bleeding. Later that day the Peoria City/County Health Department and UnityPoint Health officials held an emergency news conference to warn […]
Published: Jul 20, 2017, 12:58 pm • Updated: Jul 21, 2017, 4:26 pm By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff Colorado officials who oversee the state’s marijuana agencies are sharing details about a fact-finding visit earlier this week by federal law enforcement and drug policy administrators. Related: Feds hold closed-doors meetings with Colorado officials known to […]
Published: Nov 21, 2017, 1:28 pm • Updated: Nov 21, 2017, 1:36 pm By Polly Washburn, The Cannabist Staff The Canadian House of Commons held a spirited debate over the legalization of cannabis Tuesday as the Liberal government presented a second reading of its Bill C-45. Marco Mendicino, Justice and Attorney General, presented the government’s […]