Published: Jan 2, 2018, 3:03 pm • Updated: Jan 2, 2018, 3:58 pm By The Associated Press CARTERSVILLE, Ga. — About 70 people at a Christmas-themed lingerie party have been arrested and charged with marijuana possession in Georgia. News outlets report Cartersville police said in a release that officers responded to a suburban home about […]
Published: Jan 16, 2018, 1:52 pm • Updated: Jan 16, 2018, 1:52 pm By Elise Young, Bloomberg Philip Dunton Murphy was sworn in as New Jersey’s 56th governor, vowing to make good on economic promises unfulfilled by his Republican predecessor and counteract what he called catastrophic social and fiscal policy by the Trump administration. Murphy, […]
Published: Aug 9, 2017, 10:46 am • Updated: Aug 9, 2017, 10:46 am By Laurel Rosenhall, Calmatters Legalizing marijuana, California voters were told last year, would create a “safe, legal and comprehensive system” allowing adults to consume the drug while keeping it out of the hands of children. Marijuana would be sold in highly regulated […]
Published: Feb 15, 2018, 4:28 pm • Updated: Feb 15, 2018, 5:35 pm By Jason Auslander, The Aspen Times Pitkin County commissioners took the first step Wednesday toward officially incorporating into law the differing views on marijuana represented by each caucus in the county. With the exception of the Snowmass-Capitol Creek Caucus, each caucus has […]
PORTLAND — Two of the first states to broadly legalize marijuana took different approaches to regulation that left Oregon with a vast oversupply and Colorado with a well-balanced market. But in both states prices for bud have plummeted. A new Oregon report by law enforcement found nearly 70 percent of the legal recreational marijuana grown […]
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Published: Mar 3, 2017, 7:43 am • Updated: Mar 3, 2017, 8:03 am By Fenit Nirappil, The Washington Post Del. Dan Morhaim improperly advocated changes to medical marijuana policies without publicly disclosing that he was a paid consultant to a prospective cannabis dispensary, according to a report by the ethics committee of the Maryland General […]
Published: Dec 18, 2017, 2:04 am • Updated: Dec 18, 2017, 9:04 am By Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post The man in charge of hiring and firing Denver’s police officers likes to remind people that the firefighters and police officers who rushed into the World Trade Center on 9/11 were not drunk or stoned. Therefore, […]
Published: Aug 30, 2017, 10:25 am • Updated: Aug 31, 2017, 8:23 am By Polly Washburn, The Cannabist Staff Jeff Sessions has more reading about marijuana regs on his desk. This month, governors from Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington, the first four states to legalize recreational marijuana, each sent letters to the attorney general defending […]
Published: Feb 28, 2018, 5:09 pm • Updated: Feb 28, 2018, 5:10 pm By Blake Nicholson, The Associated Press BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Health Department on Wednesday began accepting proposals from laboratory companies that want to test medical marijuana in the state. It’s the next step in efforts to establish a system for […]