Cover Photo by Vortex Farmacy. It was bright and hot in Linden, when Senator Cory Booker returned to New Jersey on Friday. Earlier last week in the nation’s capital, the senator proposed an ambitious plan to legalize marijuana nationally that was a direct challenge to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has confirmed his intention to…
Published: Dec 7, 2017, 2:53 pm • Updated: Dec 7, 2017, 2:56 pm By Pauline Bartolone, California Healthline For 17 years, Chalfonte LeNee Queen suffered periodic episodes of violent retching and abdominal pain that would knock her off her feet for days, sometimes leaving her writhing on the floor in pain. “I’ve screamed out for…
TNMNEWSTue, February 6, 2018 2:47amURL: Embed: Thousands Of Marijuana Convictions to be Tossed Out in San Francisco. San Francisco has the clarity that the rest of the country is lacking about what it means to legalize adult-use marijuana. The district attorney for San Francisco stated yesterday that they will be dismissing over 3,000 marijuana convictions…
The cannabis industry has exploded, growing an unprecedented 30% in 2016 to $6.7 billion in early 2017. This profit gain happened largely as the legal markets expanded, allowing marijuana users in many states to purchase the drug recreationally. But forget the money for a second. With all this production, both by individuals and industrial growers,…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently granted orphan drug approval for Chrysoeriol, a cannabis-based drug used to treat acute myeloid leukaemia, which was developed by Jamaican scientist Dr. Henry Lowe. Dr. Lowe founded Medicanja Ltd — described as “Jamaica’s first medical cannabis company” — in 2013. Its distinguished board of directors includes two…
A bold passenger tried to join an entirely different type of “mile high club” this past Thursday night. During a routine Southwest Airlines flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles, an apparently impatient and none too wise marijuana enthusiast decided to light up a joint in one of the plane’s lavatories despite all of the…
Medical marijuana could be taking a big step forward in the Show Me State now that the Missouri House voted in favor of a medical marijuana bill. This is the latest development in the state’s ongoing debate over cannabis. Missouri’s Medical Marijuana Bill The bill to legalize medical marijuana went up for a vote in…
Published: Jul 25, 2016, 10:33 am • Updated: Jul 27, 2016, 2:30 pm By Katie Shapiro, The Cannabist Staff Pot-concert poster child (and we mean child in every sense of the word here) Lil Wayne threw a tantrum of epic proportions over the weekend. On a bill with Ozomatli, C-Kan and B.o.B. during the three-day…
In the past year, fully legal recreational marijuana sales have transformed San Diego area dispensaries from back-alley operations to modern, hip and unique storefronts, with amazing selections of product. Though the county has dozens, these are the 10 best places to buy cannabis and cannabis-related products in San Diego. Courtesy of Southwest Patient Group SouthWest…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has appointed eight people to a medical marijuana advisory board created under a new state law. The Republican governor announced appointments to the medical cannabidiol board Wednesday, though one slot remains vacant. The positions are unpaid and not subject to Senate confirmation. The board was one…