The post Mendocino Cannabis Company In Showdown With Authorities appeared first on High Times. Barely a month after California implemented legal weed, a Mendocino cannabis company in showdown with authorities has caught our attention. Just little over a week before legalization took effect in California on January 1, state police stopped a truck hauling 1,875…
Published: Dec 15, 2017, 1:15 pm • Updated: Dec 15, 2017, 3:44 pm By Chris Kudialis, Las Vegas Sun LAS VEGAS — Officials want to make Las Vegas the country’s first city to allow marijuana smoking lounges, and hope to do so by March or April of 2018. “We’re still trying to work out the…
Want a great job but don’t want to give up the herb? Whether a career is 420-friendly or not generally comes down to whether your employer will drug test you, and whether there’s any danger in showing up to work high. From the creative fields to tech jobs, here are nine cannabis-friendly career fields every…
Published: Aug 2, 2017, 7:25 am • Updated: Aug 2, 2017, 7:25 am By Danica Coto, The Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Jesus Aponte pushes a door open to reveal hundreds of aromatic, spiky green plants, a crop that Puerto Rico hopes will help it ease a grinding economic crisis by generating millions…
Jeff Sessions is just not making politicians on either side of the aisle, or voters, happy with his closed minded stance on legal marijuana. The House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to have Rep. Bob Goodlatte hold a hearing reviewing Jeff Sessions’s decision to rollback the Cole Memo. The Cole Memo simply advised U.S. Attorneys…
Published: Jan 11, 2018, 12:10 pm • Updated: Jan 11, 2018, 12:10 pm By The Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey lawmakers kicked off the new session by again introducing legislation to legalize marijuana. Democratic state Sen. Nicholas Scutari introduced the measure allowing the recreational use of marijuana on Tuesday, the same day the…
Paramedics have rushed young Billy Caldwell to the hospital after the boy suffered a series of epileptic seizures. British media is reporting that rescue medications failed to bring 12-year-old Billy out of “a massive intractable epileptic seizure.” First responders transported Billy to St. Mary’s Hospital in Paddington on Thursday night. He is now unconscious and fighting…
Published: Aug 16, 2017, 3:23 pm • Updated: Aug 16, 2017, 3:23 pm By Tafi Mukunyadzi, The Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Demand for permission to use, grow and sell medical marijuana in Arkansas is low as the state reaches the halfway point for the application period. Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration spokesman…
BY BLAKE NICHOLSON ASSOCIATED PRESS BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota health officials are gauging interest among laboratories in the state in testing medical marijuana once a system is established for making it legally available to patients. The state Health Department is seeking non-binding letters of intent from laboratories by the close of business on…
The post Top 10 Marijuana Policy Issues For 2018 appeared first on High Times. More states will consider marijuana’s legalization in 2018. For example, there are promising efforts to present voters with ballot initiatives in Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Utah. In addition, there looks to be promising legislative activity in New Jersey,…