Published: Aug 3, 2017, 8:30 am • Updated: Aug 3, 2017, 8:46 am By Greg Miller, The Washington Post WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump made building a wall along the southern U.S. border and forcing Mexico to pay for it core pledges of his campaign. But in his first White House call with Mexico’s president,…
Published: Jul 25, 2016, 9:37 am • Updated: Sep 20, 2017, 1:38 pm By John Ingold, The Denver Post Colorado’s laws on labeling and child-resistant packaging have been unable to stop an increase of young kids ending up in the emergency room after accidentally consuming marijuana, according to a new study published online Monday in…
The post The Crimes of Reefer Madness appeared first on High Times. Convincing the country that cannabis posed such a danger to society that only prohibition could save it was never going to be easy. Remember that, in the years before the peak reefer-madness era of the 1930s, marijuana was generally considered a benign, medically…
Published: Jan 5, 2018, 11:45 pm • Updated: Jan 6, 2018, 12:00 am By The Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Whether to crack down on marijuana in states where it is legal is a decision that will now rest with those states’ top federal prosecutors, many of whom are deeply rooted in their communities and…
Published: Feb 28, 2017, 1:39 am • Updated: Feb 28, 2017, 9:19 am By Susan Montoya Bryan, The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On a patch of tribal land in western New Mexico, a company plans to build a $160 million state-of-the-art greenhouse for researching and growing medicinal plants, including marijuana. Bright Green Group of…
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A Grand Junction area trustee has announced that he is resigning less than 48 hours after winning the election. Jesse Loughman says he is giving up the Palisade office so he can keep his five marijuana licenses. He owns Palisade’s only retail and medical marijuana stores. The Daily Sentinel reports…
A Canadian Girl Guide capitalized on the legalization of cannabis in her country by selling cookies to consumers waiting in line for legal pot. Elina Childs, a 9-year-old girl from Edmonton, Alberta, sold a wagonload of Girl Guide cookies outside a cannabis dispensary in just 45 minutes. Elina’s father, Seann Childs, said the family had been…
The post 2-Year-Old Celebrates Being Seizure-Free After Using Hemp Oil appeared first on High Times. In Illinois, a toddler is now seizure-free after using hemp oil. His story is a triumph for both himself and his parents. And thankfully, it’s not at all a fluke. Now that more research is being conducted on medical cannabis,…
Published: Feb 15, 2018, 2:55 pm • Updated: Feb 19, 2018, 12:12 pm By The Associated Press SALEM, Ore. — A proposal to ease the cultivation of hemp, a less-potent cousin of marijuana, is moving forward in the Oregon Legislature. The bill would expand a hemp research program run by the Oregon Department of Agriculture….
While Federal Judge Hellerstein may be sympathetic to Alexis Bortell and Jose Belen, sympathy is not really what our court systems are for. The long wait for the federal case that made national headlines and sought to remove marijuana as a Schedule 1 substance came to a very early end today with the judge throwing…