Published: Dec 8, 2017, 3:13 pm • Updated: Dec 8, 2017, 3:24 pm By Kristina Davis, The San Diego Union-Tribune SAN DIEGO — Ten years ago, the average gram of meth available in the U.S. was 39 percent pure. Today, it is being sold in a nearly pure state, manufactured in Mexican “superlabs” and smuggled […]
Published: Aug 25, 2017, 4:07 pm • Updated: Aug 25, 2017, 4:14 pm By The Cannabist Staff Featured guest: Writer, comedian, podcast host and one-time skateboarding rabbiJosh Androsky. LOTS TO TALK ABOUT • Unlocking creativity with cannabis, and how it can lead to Spongebob Squarepants. • Left of liberal: The Democratic Socialists of America and […]
Published: Dec 4, 2017, 10:10 am • Updated: Dec 4, 2017, 12:13 pm By The Associated Press HONOLULU — The Honolulu Police Department is reviewing a policy requiring medical marijuana users to turn over their firearms, police officials say. The department sent letters to at least 30 gun owners last month, saying they had 30 […]
Published: Jul 31, 2017, 3:14 pm • Updated: Jul 31, 2017, 4:27 pm By Joseph Misulonas, Civilized Next month there will be a solar eclipse that some people are calling “The Great American Eclipse” because such large swaths of people across the United States will be able to see it. Since this is such a […]
Published: Mar 10, 2018, 2:30 pm • Updated: Mar 10, 2018, 2:32 pm By Charlie Brennan, Boulder Daily Camera As rapidly as the cannabis industry in Colorado and across the United States is expanding, scientists’ data-based knowledge of pot’s effects has not been keeping pace. Researchers at the University of Colorado are looking for help […]
Published: Oct 26, 2017, 9:26 am • Updated: Oct 26, 2017, 9:43 am By Jenna Johnson and Lenny Bernstein, The Washington Post President Donald Trump promised during the campaign to aggressively take on the opioid crisis, but his efforts to address the public health epidemic since taking office have been more show than substance. He […]
Published: Oct 27, 2017, 1:00 pm • Updated: Oct 27, 2017, 1:25 pm By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post (The Washington Post) Regular marijuana users have about 20 percent more sex than abstainers, according to a new study from researchers at Stanford University. The study analyzed data on 28,000 female and 23,000 male participants in […]
GILLIAN FLACCUS PORTLAND, Ore. — When Oregon lawmakers created the state’s legal marijuana program, they had one goal in mind above all else: to convince illicit pot growers to leave the black market. That meant low barriers for entering the industry that also targeted long-standing medical marijuana growers, whose product is not taxed. As a […]
Published: Feb 15, 2018, 5:24 pm • Updated: Feb 16, 2018, 10:29 am By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff The fate of a federal rule viewed by hemp advocates as an existential threat to their emerging industry is now in the hands of a three-judge panel. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San […]
Published: Jan 23, 2018, 11:16 am • Updated: Jan 24, 2018, 11:30 am By The Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. — Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday ordered his administration to review New Jersey’s medical marijuana program, which he says has been “stifled” over the past eight years. The Democrat signed an executive order alongside the family […]