Legalizing marijuana is supposed to free up the massive amount of resources it takes to enforce prohibition. Yet before recreational sales have even begun, Canadian officials are implementing plans to use sales revenue to fund law enforcement agencies. Not to better focus on more serious and violent crime, but to cover the costs of policing…
Hemp may not get you high, but it can do pretty much anything else you can imagine. This low-THC variant of the cannabis plant has a dizzying array of uses, including everything from food to medicine to rope to bricks and more—somebody even made a sports car out of hemp. Here are 15 products that…
5,871 miles of open Pacific Ocean waters separate the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) from the coast of California. But the 15-island chain that makes up the United States’ westernmost territory is poised to do something no U.S. state has ever done. On Wednesday, 18 of CNMI’s 20 legislators voted to approve a…
The post The Predicted Rush of Michigan Cannabis Farmers appeared first on High Times. Are Michigan cannabis farmers about to hit gold? Or will their state’s law enforcement do everything in their power to shut them down before they can reach their full potential? A New Green Rush? The powers-that-be in the state aren’t holding…
Michigan‘s “Hash Bash,” a yearly rally devoted to marijuana and legalization efforts, is slated to kick off in Ann Arbor on Saturday, April 1st this year. While previous iterations of the event focused primarily on marijuana legalization in the state, organizers are hopeful that this will be the last year the event will be held…
Published: Feb 13, 2018, 10:40 am • Updated: Feb 13, 2018, 10:43 am By The Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Republican Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration is again urging state marijuana regulators to hold off on allowing so-called “cannabis cafes,” or other places where pot could be consumed on site. In a letter Monday to the…
Officials in New Haven, Connecticut have reported that the city experienced 14 overdoses from synthetic cannabis during the Fourth of July holiday. New Haven Emergency operations director Rick Fontana told local media that paramedics responded to two clusters of calls. “We had a spat of, we’ll call it a cannabis-laced product, that caused 11 about overdoses in…
Dr. Yasmin Hurd is the Ward-Coleman Chair of Translational Neuroscience and the Director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai in New York. In other words, she is one of the world’s top minds on addiction and she has been dissecting brains for a long time to understand why addiction happens and why relapses are…
Published: Aug 31, 2017, 10:43 am • Updated: Aug 31, 2017, 5:38 pm By Bob Salsberg, The Associated Press BOSTON — A former business executive who opposed the legalization of recreational marijuana was tapped Thursday to head the Cannabis Control Commission, a new state agency responsible for regulating pot in Massachusetts. The appointment of Steven…
The post Remedy Rolls by Healing Sacrament Offer A Puff And A Prayer appeared first on High Times. “Somebody’s got to go convey the message that there’s not just recreational and medicinal. There is a sacramental use of cannabinoids.”. These are the words of David Warren Goodknife, and he’s decided that he is that somebody….