Category: News

  • Bernie Explains What Should Be Obvious, but Sadly Isn’t

    Bernie Explains What Should Be Obvious, but Sadly Isn’t

    You would think that this is obvious, or common knowledge, but sadly you’d be wrong. Or maybe lawmakers are wilfully ignorant to the facts (big surprise there, right?). Either way, please share this with whoever you may know who’s looking for a way to affect real change in our country.

  • Massachusetts recreational marijuana sales resume Monday, consumers asked to order ahead

    Massachusetts recreational marijuana sales resume Monday, consumers asked to order ahead

    Recreational marijuana companies are excited to get back to work on Monday, as the state’s reopening plan allows adult-use dispensaries to start selling cannabis products again using a curbside pickup model…read the whole story here.

  • It’s just a weed, Chicago

    It’s just a weed, Chicago

    There’s a patch of ground behind the lilies in Lauren’s west suburban backyard garden where tomatoes won’t grow. She thinks it has something to do with the soil’s pH, but whatever it is, it’s a ferti…

  • Iowa Prosecutor Unintentionally Making the Case for Marijuana Legalization

    Iowa Prosecutor Unintentionally Making the Case for Marijuana Legalization

    “It stands to reason that officers will patrol, stop and frisk and make arrests in the areas where violent crime is reported and the complaints are made. It’s not like the police are meandering about the city looking to arrest a certain segment of the population for marijuana charges. When they find marijuana, an arrest…

  • Virginia Decriminalizes Marijuana

    Virginia Decriminalizes Marijuana

    On Sunday, Gov. Ralph Northam (D) announced he signed a bill that will eliminate jail time for simple marijuana possession, leaving only a civil penalty with a fine in place for the first offense. Northam previously said decriminalization was a priority for him, and the newly elected Democratic-controlled legislature soon followed his lead. This is not full marijuana legalization. Under decriminalization, penalties carrying jail…

  • Where is Florida in the fight for marijuana legalization?

    Where is Florida in the fight for marijuana legalization?

    In November of 2016 Floridians voted on a constitutional amendment to introduce medical cannabis to the state. The amendment passed with 71.3% of voters in favor of the initiative. The first major obstacle for patient access was the way the Florida legislature implemented the newly passed constitutional rights…read the full article here.

  • Mexico’s legalization of hemp, marijuana beats US to the punch.

    Mexico’s legalization of hemp, marijuana beats US to the punch.

    Mexico is poised to become the world’s most-populous country with legal marijuana and hemp next month – and, unlike its northern neighbor, Mexico is setting nationwide regulations to cover all forms of cannabis, no matter the THC content, instead of having a patchwork of laws for the two plants. That could potentially…see the full article here.

  • LA Marijuana dispensaries are ‘essential’, allowed to stay open during coronavirus order

    LA Marijuana dispensaries are ‘essential’, allowed to stay open during coronavirus order

    With California residents being asked to stay at home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and all “non-essential businesses and areas” being closed down, officials in Los Angeles are making sure that marijuana is still available to the public.Marijuana dispensaries are being deemed as “essential businesses,” as they are allowed to…read the full CNN article here.

  • San Francisco dispensaries allowed to stay open despite coronavirus shutdown order

    San Francisco dispensaries allowed to stay open despite coronavirus shutdown order

    San Francisco officials are allowing cannabis businesses to remain open while many other stores are shut down over the next three weeks as the city goes to extreme lengths to fight the coronavirus pandemic. City officials originally told cannabis stores they had to close on Tuesday because of the city’s order one day earlier to…

  • New Law Brings Texas One Step Closer to Legalizing Marijuana

    New Law Brings Texas One Step Closer to Legalizing Marijuana

    Texas is one step closer to joining the 34 states where medicinal marijuana is legal after state legislators passed a law written by North Texas Republican representative and registered nurse Stephanie Klick to expand the conditions that can be treated with medicinal cannabis.  Although the law narrowly defines which conditions can be treated with medicinal marijuana,…