Published: Jan 7, 2018, 9:33 pm • Updated: Jan 8, 2018, 7:02 am By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Most Californians with an urge to smoke a joint will enter the state’s legal marijuana marketplace through a single doorway — at a retail shop. But out of view of those day-to-day sales, the state…
Cannabis retailer MedMen is facing a class action lawsuit from former employees who say the company has committed multiple violations of labor laws. The suit was filed on November 16 in California Superior Court in Los Angeles against two MedMen subsidiaries, Manlin I and DT Fund II Group, according to a report from Marijuana Business Daily. The…
Published: Aug 14, 2017, 12:12 pm • Updated: Aug 14, 2017, 12:15 pm By The Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. — He won’t even be able to vote, but a 16-year-old Wichita high school student says he’s serious about his bid to run for governor of Kansas. Jack Bergerson has filed to run as a Democrat…
Published: Nov 21, 2017, 1:06 pm • Updated: Nov 21, 2017, 1:14 pm By Alex Pasquariello, The Cannabist Staff The man behind more than half of the successful state-level medical and recreational marijuana legalization efforts is stepping down as leader of the marijuana law reform organization he helped found. The national advocacy group Marijuana Policy…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas man was sentenced to five years in prison without parole for his role in a conspiracy to distribute $3 million worth of marijuana in the Kansas City metro region. Prosecutors say 29-year-old Justin Polson of Overland Park was sentenced Thursday and ordered to forfeit $1.5 million to the government….
Photo by Chewberto420. One of the confounding problems with legalizing marijuana is that we must do it in an incremental fashion. Oh, sure, it’s theoretically possible for the attorney general or president to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act or for Congress to do the same through legislation. But even then, there would remain…
The post TV Travel Guide Rick Steves Advocates For Legal Weed appeared first on High Times. Rick Steves, who is most famous for his PBS travel show Rick Steves’ Europe, has been a staunch supporter of cannabis legalization for some time now. His widespread advocacy was on full display on Tuesday, when the television travel…
Published: Dec 6, 2017, 9:42 am • Updated: Dec 6, 2017, 9:42 am By Janie Har, The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is another step closer to allowing recreational marijuana sales to start in January after city leaders approved regulations in a mandatory second vote Tuesday. Mayor Ed Lee’s office said he will…
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The post DPA Reform Conference Day 2: Why Aren’t We Reforming Alcohol? appeared first on High Times. The most valuable thing you acquire from attending the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) biennial International Reform Conference is knowledge from outside your comfort zone. Especially in this age of Facebook News Feeds tailored to spoon-feed us those opinions…