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Published: Dec 7, 2017, 4:49 pm • Updated: Dec 7, 2017, 5:04 pm By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff Denver’s Office of Marijuana Policy has successfully implemented some suggestions made last year by the city’s auditor; however, the regulatory office continues to fall short on full transparency about how pot tax revenue is spent, a…
Published: Sep 12, 2017, 4:37 pm • Updated: Sep 12, 2017, 4:37 pm By Jon Murray, The Denver Post Excess marijuana tax proceeds would provide $10 million for transportation projects, park and recreation center fixes, and a new “community budgeting” program next year under a $2 billion budget proposal unveiled Tuesday by Denver Mayor Michael…
CARPINTERIA, Calif. — This picturesque coastal town cradled by mountains and sandy shores is a scene out of a Southern California postcard. Residents of Carpinteria say they feel lucky to live in what they consider a slice of paradise. But change is in the air. And sometimes, they say, it stinks. That’s because marijuana has…
Canada’s senate approved C-45 yesterday ending almost a century of cannabis prohibition. The legislation still has to move through the Canadian House of Commons which could ask for more revisions and send it back to the senate, but it is technically now legal for people over 21 to consume cannabis in Canada. The senate attached…
The post Controlling Marijuana: A Brief History appeared first on High Times. The historical, legal and public-policy details surrounding marijuana and the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) are interesting for various reasons, but they obscure a simple truth, a truth that gets lost in the technicalities of the administrative rule-making process and decisions rendered by the…
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Ngaio Bealum (@ngaio420), writer, comedian, and resident cannaseur on the Netflix show Cooking on High, told High Times that he makes his connection to California’s legal pot industry obvious in his Instagram posts. Little did he know that by doing so, it made his social media identity vulnerable to imposters attempting to scam people. “I got…
The post Canadian Lawmakers Pushing To Decriminalize All Drugs appeared first on High Times. A group of lawmakers in Canada wants the country to move much further than cannabis legalization. They want the country to decriminalize all illegal drugs. With Canadian lawmakers pushing to decriminalize all drugs, conversations about drug laws and public health are receiving…
People have been turning to cannabis as a form of pain relief for as long as humans first started consuming the plant countless ages ago. Studies have gone on to show that cannabis could potentially help fight serious medical conditions such as various types of cancer as well as provide significant pain relief for folks…