Published: Jul 27, 2017, 5:20 pm • Updated: Jul 27, 2017, 5:20 pm By Brian Witte, The Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Companies in the final running for licenses to grow medical marijuana should be able to defend their multimillion-dollar investments against a legal challenge over how those finalists were picked, an attorney for the […]
Published: Oct 31, 2017, 10:49 am • Updated: Oct 31, 2017, 1:37 pm By Jesse Paul, The Denver Post Chris Myklebust, the state bank and financial services commissioner who dreamed up a pot-banking workaround for Colorado, is leaving his job at the end of next month, joining a growing list of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s top […]
Published: Mar 7, 2018, 1:13 pm • Updated: Mar 7, 2018, 1:13 pm By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post On Monday, 4-year-old Abigail Blumenstein and 1-year-old Josh Lew were struck and killed by an out-of-control car while crossing the street with their parents in Brooklyn. The driver, who police say may have been experiencing a […]
Published: Aug 1, 2017, 9:07 am • Updated: Aug 1, 2017, 10:00 am By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post Recreational marijuana use is now legal in eight states plus the District of Columbia, giving public health researchers more leeway than ever to investigate some of the foundational underpinnings of cannabis culture: How much weed is […]
Published: Feb 22, 2018, 12:15 pm • Updated: Feb 26, 2018, 12:09 am By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff Cannabis is a “big business,” and Constellation Brands has big aspirations in the space, the alcohol beverage company’s president said this week. Officials for Constellation Brands (NYSE: STZ) have their sights on developing unique cannabis-based beverages […]
Over 15 percent of San Francisco residents age 12 and over use marijuana monthly or more, the highest rate in the country. By contrast, the lowest use rates are in the far south of Texas, where fewer than 4 percent use monthly. The report finds that nationally, 7.7 percent of people 12 an older — […]
Published: Aug 7, 2017, 8:06 am • Updated: Aug 7, 2017, 8:08 pm By Jack Kaskey, Bloomberg Whenever Josh Wurzer buys legal California pot, he makes certain it was grown without pesticides. That’s because Wurzer, as president of cannabis-testing company SC Labs, knows how prevalent the use of health-threatening chemicals are in an industry that […]
Published: Jan 22, 2018, 7:02 am • Updated: Jan 22, 2018, 7:02 am By Kristine Phillips, The Washington Post A 9-year-old student in New Mexico gave fellow students gummies – only to realize later they were not ordinary candies. The candies had apparently been infused with tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the chemical responsible for how marijuana […]
Published: Jan 31, 2018, 9:39 am • Updated: Jan 31, 2018, 3:40 pm By Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times MEXICO CITY — For decades, marijuana flowed in one direction across the U.S.-Mexico border: north. These days, drug enforcement agents regularly seize specialty strains of retail-quality cannabis grown in the United States being smuggled south. Widespread […]
Published: Mar 9, 2017, 11:00 am • Updated: Mar 9, 2017, 11:43 am By Jen Skerritt and Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg As investors flock to Canada’s burgeoning marijuana sector, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is signaling recreational pot sales aren’t imminent. Lawmaker Bill Blair — the former Toronto police chief leading Trudeau’s legalization effort — confirmed […]