Published: Aug 7, 2017, 8:06 am • Updated: Aug 7, 2017, 8:08 pm By Jack Kaskey, Bloomberg Whenever Josh Wurzer buys legal California pot, he makes certain it was grown without pesticides. That’s because Wurzer, as president of cannabis-testing company SC Labs, knows how prevalent the use of health-threatening chemicals are in an industry that…
Gwyneth Paltrow, the star of such movies as Shakespeare In Love, The Royal Tenenbaums and Seven has been on the news several times over the past few years due to her public endorsement of various different holistic treatments through her lifestyle brand called Goop that have often proved to be controversial. From suggestions that female…
Published: Jan 22, 2018, 7:02 am • Updated: Jan 22, 2018, 7:02 am By Kristine Phillips, The Washington Post A 9-year-old student in New Mexico gave fellow students gummies – only to realize later they were not ordinary candies. The candies had apparently been infused with tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the chemical responsible for how marijuana…
The City of Calgary, Alberta may have four legal public consumption areas when Canada legalizes the recreational use and sale of cannabis later this year. All four sites under consideration by the city council are in Ward 9. Gian-Carlo Carra, city council member of Ward 9, told the CBC that he proposed the consumption sites to…
It is very challenging understanding the current federal administration’s intentions towards legalized marijuana. President Trump does not comment on it all that much but he placed possibly the greatest opponent to the cannabis movement in the attorney general seat with Jeff Sessions. Now, President Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, has made comments suggesting that the…
Where there is smoke, there tends to be fire, say medical researchers who conducted research indicating frequent marijuana users have about 20 per cent more sex than those who don’t smoke pot. Stanford University School of Medicine researchers unveiled the link between marijuana and the frequency of sexual intercourse in a study published Friday in…
Published: Jan 31, 2018, 9:39 am • Updated: Jan 31, 2018, 3:40 pm By Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times MEXICO CITY — For decades, marijuana flowed in one direction across the U.S.-Mexico border: north. These days, drug enforcement agents regularly seize specialty strains of retail-quality cannabis grown in the United States being smuggled south. Widespread…
Democratic Mayor Muriel E. Bowser of Washington, D.C. has announced that she intends to introduce legislation next year that would legalize the sale of recreational cannabis in the nation’s capital. Bowser, who was re-elected to her position on Tuesday, sees the Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections as an opportunity to…
Published: Mar 9, 2017, 11:00 am • Updated: Mar 9, 2017, 11:43 am By Jen Skerritt and Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg As investors flock to Canada’s burgeoning marijuana sector, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is signaling recreational pot sales aren’t imminent. Lawmaker Bill Blair — the former Toronto police chief leading Trudeau’s legalization effort — confirmed…
The post Pot Legalization Opponents Are In A State Of Denial appeared first on High Times. Last May, Vermont Governor Phil Scott vetoed a bill to legalize marijuana in his state because the legislation didn’t protect minors or sufficiently address highway safety. Scott remarked that he’d still like the state to be the first to…