Published: Mar 6, 2018, 1:07 pm • Updated: Mar 6, 2018, 1:07 pm By Chris Kudialis, Las Vegas Sun The Coffee Joint in Denver received the city’s first social-use marijuana permit license last week to become the initial pot consumption lounge in an area leading the way in pot regulation. The city’s Cannabis Consumption Establishment…
Arkansas legalized medical marijuana in 2016, but not much has happened since then. Though the state has issued over 5,000 medical marijuana licenses, authorities have been slow to approve dispensaries and growers. In February, the state finally issued 5 marijuana grower licenses but was soon after taken to court by a failed applicant. The Arkansas…
Could Rhode Island be the next New England state to legalize marijuana? It’s a possibility that seems more likely than ever, given the latest moves toward legalization that have happened in the region. Massachusetts, Rhode Island’s next door neighbor, just opened its first two recreational dispensaries last month, and Vermont became the ninth state to…
The United Kingdom seems to be hypocritical with respect to its marijuana policy. The same government that claims cannabis has no medicinal function is now the leading medical marijuana exporter on the planet. This discrepancy has drug reform groups searching for answers. They are trying to understand why this country bans cannabis while exporting the…
The post Copenhagen Caper Exposes Cannabis Crackdown appeared first on High Times. Media accounts mostly played it for laughs when a confused pot dealer cluelessly got into a police car outside the famous squatter community of Christiania in Copenhagen on December 21, apparently thinking it was a taxi-cab. The cops searched him and found 1,000 pre-rolled joints….
Thanks to new provisions, a brand new medical marijuana facility in Lansing, Michigan is set to become the state’s first multi-purpose cannabis establishment. The Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs announced that the state-sanctioned premise is permitted to grow, process and retail medicinal cannabis in one uniform location. An All-Purpose Location In September of last…
Published: Sep 29, 2017, 2:03 pm • Updated: Sep 29, 2017, 2:03 pm By The Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine — A Maine legislative panel agreed Thursday on how to divvy tax revenue from recreational marijuana sales after putting the kibosh on drive-thru sales, internet sales and home delivery. The Joint Select Committee on Marijuana Legalization…
The post California Regulator Admits to Anxiety as Legal Pot Nears appeared first on High Times. LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — In about three months, recreational marijuana sales will kick off in California, yet no one knows exactly how the pot economy will work. It could take until late November for the state to issue…
Where alfalfa once grew on a plot in unincorporated Boulder County, fledgling hemp plants are pushing skyward. On a recent weekday, Bob Sievers settled under a white canopy to shield himself from the sun and watched as workers dug holes by hand to fill long rows with hemp plants. The 83-year-old is a part-time University…
A Utah state senator decided to try cannabis before the state’s upcoming vote on a medical marijuana initiative and a legislative special session on the subject. Sen. Jim Dabakis, a Democrat from Salt Lake City, drove to a Las Vegas dispensary for the experience. Dabakis made it clear in a video that he posted to Facebook…