Published: Dec 11, 2017, 12:26 pm • Updated: Dec 11, 2017, 12:32 pm By Eli Pace, Summit Daily Getting high is down in Breckenridge for the first time in more than two years — or at least that’s what the town’s sales tax receipts from its marijuana dispensaries seem to indicate. According to the latest […]
Published: Aug 11, 2017, 6:00 am • Updated: Aug 14, 2017, 7:55 am By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff As Wyoming prepares for a massive influx of visitors for the coming eclipse, Colorado’s neighbor to the north welcomes the migration — minus marijuana. The Wyoming Association of Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police (WASCOP) issued a […]
Published: Sep 7, 2017, 11:25 am • Updated: Sep 7, 2017, 11:25 am By Brooke Edwards Staggs and Ryan Hagen, The Cannifornian San Bernardino strip club Flesh Showgirls just got a permit to operate a marijuana dispensary. (Cannifornian/SCNG file photo) San Bernardino, California’s first licensed marijuana dispensary may share an address with its only strip […]
Published: Oct 26, 2017, 2:29 pm • Updated: Oct 26, 2017, 4:20 pm By Nicki Jhabvala, The Denver Post For the second consecutive year, former Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer is teaming with Colorado nonprofit Realm of Caring to auction off game-day experiences for fans to benefit cannabinoid research. Fans have an opportunity to purchase VIP […]
Published: Feb 14, 2018, 4:07 pm • Updated: Feb 14, 2018, 4:10 pm By The Associated Press BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Police in Maine say daycare workers suspect a parent brought them cookies tainted with marijuana. Bangor Sgt. Brent Beaulieu said no children ate the cookies that were dropped off at the Watch Me Shine […]
Published: Oct 31, 2017, 12:55 pm • Updated: Oct 31, 2017, 12:55 pm By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post Over the past 10 years, Virginia authorities have arrested more than 133,000 people suspected of marijuana possession. Each year, about 10,000 individuals are convicted of a first-time marijuana possession offense. And on one day in July […]
Published: Jul 25, 2016, 7:13 am • Updated: Jul 25, 2016, 7:16 am By Joe Reedy, The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The first organization authorized to dispense medical marijuana in Florida has made its first home delivery. Kim Rivers, CEO of Trulieve, said Saturday that the company has delivered low-THC medical cannabis to a […]
DETROIT — With medical marijuana on the cusp of becoming a bona fide industry in Michigan, the people who educate customers and sell the product in dispensaries — budtenders in marijuana lingo — will be in high demand. Across the state, as dispensaries prepare to open, owners will be seeking hundreds of workers to be […]
Published: Mar 6, 2017, 12:15 pm • Updated: Mar 6, 2017, 12:33 pm By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff Legal weed is at a crossroads. While some cannabis legalization proponents claim their movement has grown too big to fail, it has also proved too significant for the federal government to ignore. The Trump administration is […]
Published: Oct 27, 2017, 4:00 pm • Updated: Oct 27, 2017, 3:59 pm Cannabist Staff Featured guest: Samantha Walsh, CEO and co-founder of Tetra Public Affairs, a cannabis-centered consulting firm. Podcast: Play in new window | Download LOTS TO TALK ABOUT • How state laws have changed in recent years to help hemp farmers. • […]