A federal survey just confirmed that the sanctimonious justification spewed by self-righteous prohibitionists who claim to be protecting young people from the evils of marijuana is willfully deceptive. The kids don’t need help on this issue. They’re making their own choices. Adolescent weed-smoking is not now, and hasn’t been, a problem for the past 20…
It is always important to be aware and cautious of what you’re mixing with any sort of medication, since certain medicines will have a negative or more enhanced reaction when taken with another substance. When you’re fighting off a bacterial infection, doctors generally prescribe antibiotics, which come along with some strict rules. But almost never…
Now that he has President Donald J. Trump’s support for comprehensive legislation protecting state-legal marijuana, Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner says he likes his odds of getting a bill through Congress. Colorado’s Republican senator told The Cannabist in a phone interview that he received assurances from Trump that his state’s marijuana legalization regime would be safe…
Over the course of 2018, California has suffered both its largest and its most destructive wildfires. The Camp Fire is the state’s most destructive, burning over 142,000 acres, killing at least 85 people, and destroying more than 18,000 structures. These totals are apt to rise, as not all of the missing have been accounted for…
Published: Dec 28, 2017, 8:14 am • Updated: Dec 29, 2017, 12:08 pm By The Cannabist Network DENVER — It’s a growing industry in a booming Colorado economy, but out of work employees at Sweet Leaf marijuana centers say they’re having a tough time finding other jobs because of a recent raid by Denver Police….
A Kentucky judge ruled on Wednesday to uphold Kentucky’s medical marijuana ban. In the ruling, he cited the need to “curtail citizens’ possession of a narcotic, hallucinogenic drug.” While this adjudication might make sense in the context of recreational legalization, the lawsuit was over medicinal cannabis—not recreational. Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate’s decision ended a…
After action by a legislative committee, the medical marijuana bill moves forward in South Carolina. Members of the House Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs (3M) Committee voted 14-3 to send the South Carolina Compassionate Care Act to the full House for consideration. The bill would allow seriously ill patients with a doctor’s recommendation to use…
16 SHARES ShareTweet Spread the love It is only logical to think that with the state legalization of marijuana spreading, perspectives on marijuana would change. Evidence of those shifts in perspective may be found through online cannabis searches. Discovering how people are researching marijuana may allow us to project the future of cannabis and how…
Published: Nov 27, 2017, 8:44 am • Updated: Nov 27, 2017, 8:45 am By Randy Wyrick, Vail Daily EAGLE COUNTY — Colorado grows almost 40 percent of all the hemp in the country, and more than twice as much as any other state. Not to be confused with its more famous and psychotropic cousin, marijuana,…
Published: Oct 30, 2017, 10:30 am • Updated: Oct 30, 2017, 12:11 pm By Michael R. Blood, The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Ready or not, California kicks off recreational marijuana sales on Jan. 1. And, mostly, it’s not. Los Angeles and San Francisco are among many cities still struggling to fashion local rules for…