Published: Sep 11, 2017, 9:20 am • Updated: Sep 11, 2017, 9:25 am By Bob Salsberg, The Associated Press BOSTON — Massachusetts’ newly-formed regulatory board for marijuana is scheduled to meet for the first time on Tuesday. The chairman of the Cannabis Control Commission, 64-year-old Lincoln resident and former business executive Steven Hoffman, sat down […]
Published: Nov 3, 2017, 8:27 am • Updated: Nov 6, 2017, 8:40 am By The Associated Press ALTOONA, Pa. — A Pennsylvania gynecologist says she has been inundated with calls from men trying to set up appointments after hearing she was permitted to “prescribe” medical marijuana. Dr. Liang Bartkowiak tells the Altoona Mirror she was […]
Published: Sep 27, 2017, 1:14 pm • Updated: Sep 27, 2017, 1:14 pm By The Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — Authorities in Bexar County are seeking to divert misdemeanor offenders, including those found with marijuana, away from jail and instead receive a citation similar to a traffic ticket. District Attorney Nico LaHood and other county […]
Published: Oct 16, 2017, 9:13 am • Updated: Oct 16, 2017, 9:41 am By Lenny Bernstein and Scott Higham, The Washington Post In April 2016, at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, Congress effectively stripped the Drug Enforcement Administration of its most potent weapon against large drug companies suspected of spilling […]
Published: Nov 16, 2017, 9:55 am • Updated: Nov 16, 2017, 1:45 pm By Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press Detroit — Not all is bliss for Michigan’s marijuana activists and stoners — drug busts of pot growers and their criminal trials haven’t let up — yet marijuana is having a good year here, and a […]
Published: Mar 9, 2017, 6:36 pm • Updated: Mar 9, 2017, 6:40 pm By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff Colorado legislation to add PTSD as a qualifying condition for medical marijuana is headed to the full House. Rep. Jonathan Singer, D-Longmont, who co-sponsored the bill with Sen. Irene Aguilar, D-Denver, said he anticipates “a bumpy […]
Published: Nov 1, 2017, 3:02 pm • Updated: Nov 1, 2017, 3:02 pm By Lenny Bernstein, The Washington Post President Donald Trump’s commission on the opioid crisis called Wednesday for a nationwide system of drug courts and easier access to alternatives to opioids for people in pain, part of a wide-ranging menu of upgrades it […]
Published: Feb 27, 2018, 12:28 pm • Updated: Feb 27, 2018, 12:28 pm By The Cannabist Staff Charlize Theron opened up to E! News about marijuana use in her younger years in a recent interview. “Yes, oh god yes, I was a wake-and-baker for most of my life,” the Oscar-winning film actress told E!’s Sibley […]
Published: Sep 18, 2017, 11:20 am • Updated: Sep 18, 2017, 11:48 am By Andrew Demillo, The Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas will get its first hint this week of just how large the state’s medical marijuana industry will become with hundreds of applications expected to be delivered for those wanting to grow […]
A Denver business that hoped to open the nation’s first legal marijuana spa has come up short — by about 20 feet, to be more exact. The city’s licensing director on Wednesday denied a license application filed by Utopia All Natural Wellness Spa and Lounge to allow marijuana consumption in an old Capitol Hill mansion, […]