Published: Nov 15, 2017, 2:10 pm • Updated: Nov 15, 2017, 2:10 pm By Ramona Giwargis, The Cannifornian SAN JOSE — San Jose residents next year can buy marijuana at any of the city’s 16 licensed medical pot shops, the City Council decided in a unanimous vote on Tuesday. The decision doesn’t allow new pot…
As Canada prepares for federal cannabis legalization later this year, provinces are starting to fine-tune their laws and policies. Now, Saskatchewan lawmakers have rolled out legal marijuana regulations. These rules are giving more concrete shape to what the legal weed industry will look like in the province. Saskatchewan’s Marijuana Regulations The province of Saskatchewan is…
Published: Aug 9, 2017, 2:36 pm • Updated: Aug 9, 2017, 3:57 pm By Polly Washburn, The Cannabist Staff An independent national organization that supports state legislatures has again voiced its support for federal descheduling of cannabis. The bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) passed a resolution at its annual meeting this week asking…
A new report from the Society for the Study of Addiction found that alcohol and tobacco are far and away the most harmful substances used around the world. The report culls together data from the World Health Organization, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Even though there…
The post Kentucky Police Chiefs Formally Oppose Weed Legalization appeared first on High Times. The state of Kentucky made cannabis legalization headlines earlier this week after a state senator introduced a bill to legalize marijuana. By week’s end, however, a major law enforcement group in Kentucky had already begun pushing back against the proposed legislation….
The post Detroit Has More Opioid Overdose Deaths Than Murders appeared first on High Times. The poster child for urban decay (the phenomenon resulting when businesses abandon a city en masse), in the past decade, Detroit has served as a handy punchline for elitist snobs interested in “ruin porn” and kneejerk reactionaries looking for an…
The idea of New York’s Governor Cuomo getting on the cannabis legalization train shouldn’t be too much of a surprise for anyone who’s followed his record on marijuana over the last several years, or who’s been watching the Democratic primary race for governor this year. During his tenure as governor, Andrew Cuomo has slowly but…
The University of California Irvine has received a $9 million grant to research the effects of long-term cannabis use on the adolescent brain. The grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) will fund a four-year study at the UCI School of Medicine. New Cannabis Research Group to Conduct Study The research…
Published: Nov 15, 2017, 10:54 am • Updated: Nov 15, 2017, 11:08 am By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff Senator Cory Gardner, a Republican from Colorado, is backing federal legislation that would allow state-legal marijuana businesses to claim tax deductions and credits. Gardner said Wednesday that he would sign on as a co-sponsor of the…
A new Gallup poll has revealed that nearly one in four young adults in the United States is a cannabis user. The results of the telephone poll were released by the research company on Wednesday. The poll found that 24 percent of adults age 18-29 years old said that they “regularly” or “occasionally” use or smoke marijuana….