Published: Mar 17, 2018, 11:49 am • Updated: Mar 17, 2018, 11:51 am By The Associated Press ABERDEEN, Md. (AP) — Police say former NBA player Glen “Big Baby” Davis was arrested in a Maryland hotel last month on drug possession and distribution charges. WMAR-TV in Baltimore reports that Davis was arrested at a Hampton […]
Published: Jan 4, 2018, 2:04 pm • Updated: Jan 4, 2018, 2:08 pm By The Cannabist Staff In response to news that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ is ending an Obama-era policy that allowed for marijuana legalization to spread in U.S. states, several policy and industry organizations spoke out, with concern and caution, and one […]
Published: Sep 29, 2017, 5:09 pm • Updated: Sep 29, 2017, 6:05 pm By The Cannabist Staff Featured guests: Filmmaker Peter Spirer, producer/director of “The Legend of 420” documentary, and Jesse Peters, CEO of Eco Firma Farms, an Oregon cannabis cultivation company. LOTS TO TALK ABOUT • Documenting hip-hop’s influence on the cannabis scene: covering […]
Published: Jan 24, 2018, 10:31 am • Updated: Jan 24, 2018, 11:51 am By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff Colorado will stick with the familiar when it comes to tracking marijuana from seed to sale. The Colorado Department of Revenue plans to award a new three-year contract for its marijuana inventory tracking system to Franwell […]
Editor’s Note: In advance of 4/20, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore. and co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, released the following statement, published here in full, addressing his views on the state of marijuana in America. For the two decades after cannabis was listed as a Schedule 1 controlled substance, we were spinning our wheels. While […]
Published: Sep 25, 2017, 11:06 am • Updated: Sep 25, 2017, 11:42 am By The Cannabist Network < > Marijuana plants bask in the sun at the Pot Zero outdoor grow facility Friday, Sept. 22, outside Gypsum. The grow facility is 100 percent sustainable with a zero carbon footprint. Fertilizer is used from their cows […]
Published: Jan 9, 2018, 11:38 am • Updated: Jan 9, 2018, 11:38 am By Bruce Kennedy, The Cannabist Staff The New Year didn’t just usher in a new era of legal adult-use marijuana in California. It also marked the end of prohibition of the cannabis compound cannabidiol in world sport. In late September, the World […]
ASTORIA, Oregon (AP) — Clatsop County voters might have the option in November to institute a tax on retail marijuana sales. The Daily Astorian reports that county commissioners will hold the first reading Wednesday of an ordinance that would impose a 3 percent tax on sales. Staff estimates the tax, applied to three dispensaries outside […]
America’s opioids crisis has taken a staggering toll, killing more than 42,000 people in 2016 alone and more than 250,000 people over the past decade. On Thursday, underscoring the severity of the crisis, Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued a statement without apparent precedent in which he urged “health care practitioners, family and friends of people […]
Published: Aug 1, 2017, 9:55 am • Updated: Aug 1, 2017, 12:54 pm By Ashley C. Bradford and W. David Bradford, Special To The Washington Post Attorney General Jeff Sessions will soon receive a report he has been waiting for. The document, from the President’s Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety, is expected […]