Updated (8/28/2018) Gov. Bruce Rauner of Illinois signed into law the Alternative to Opioids Act on Tuesday, allowing patients in the state who are prescribed opioid medications to opt for medicinal cannabis instead. Rauner signed the bill at the Chicago Recovery Alliance, a nonprofit group that provides addiction services including needle exchange programs and the […]
On Wednesday, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales signed into a law a bill passed by the country’s congress that nearly doubles the area of national territory open to coca leaf cultivation. Law 906, or the General Law of Coca Leaf, envisions new legal commercial and industrial uses for the leaf. It replaces the far more restrictive Law 1008, […]
Americans have a short memory. The span of Californians’ collective consciousness may be even shorter. California just spent the better part of a decade mired in the worst drought in recorded history, and possibly the worst dry spell ever. Now, after a month of heavy rainfall, a once-in-a-century event, California Republicans are talking about making […]
Roger Stone—the malignant attention whore with a penchant for bonkers, Alex Jones-level conspiracy theories, raiding the “Edward Gorey’s twisted industrialist” section at Macy’s and terrible tweets—was finally kicked to the curb this week by the Cannabis World Congress & Business Expo (CWCBE), where he was scheduled to give a speech in Los Angeles next week. […]
I was reading one of the recent missives from the folks at Project SAMUEL[*] that lamented that construction employers in Colorado are forced to bring in workers from out-of-state because they can’t find enough applicants in Colorado who can pass a drug test. Cue the world’s tiniest violin. When I read stories like this, there […]
Yesterday, California’s Bloom Farms announced a plan to erase gender disparity among its lists of cannabis producers, pledging to source half of its marijuana supply from woman farmers by the end of 2020. The move, announced in a Nov. 13 statement, comes in response to growing concerns that the cannabis industry is not taking the […]
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The post Pot Matters: American Farmers Support Hemp appeared first on High Times. The American Farm Bureau Federation has formally endorsed H.R. 3530, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act, a bill before the House of Representatives to remove industrial hemp from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and expedite the spread of hemp farming in the United […]
The post Medical Marijuana Mom Beats State In Court, Wins Back Daughter appeared first on High Times. Last week in Oregon’s Malheur County Courthouse, a young single mother who uses medical marijuana to help treat psychiatric conditions convinced a judge she was neither too mentally ill nor abusing drugs, thereby winning back custody of her […]
Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon announced last week that she’s running for governor of New York. During a private fundraiser, Nixon came out in support of recreational marijuana. Today, she clarified her stance on marijuana on Twitter. Cynthia Nixon plans to improve racial justice by legalizing weed. Here’s what we know about this […]