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…
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…
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…
There are some people who believe that there are no such things as coincidences in life, and when you hear a story like this one you may be more inclined to agree with them. Last week, North Carolina law enforcement found and seized 420 grams of cannabis along with over twenty ounces of the pain…
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…
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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…