Politics
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Cannabis Event Guide
BIG INDUSTRY SHOW AUG 22ND– 23RD Miami, FL bigindustryshow.com CANNABIS SCIENCE CONFERENCE SEPT 4TH– 6TH Portland, OR cannabisscienceconference.com GREEN ON GREENWOOD HEALTH...
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3.0K#PermitPatty: A Cautionary Tale
I woke up on a Saturday morning (June 23rd to be exact), to find #permitpatty trending on Twitter, only to realize the...
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1.7KCynthia Nixon’s Broad City Bong Contest
Cynthia Nixon is giving away a bong, but not just any bong – a bong autographed by Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson and...
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16.8KOfficial Hemp CBD Ban in California & United States
In an otherwise unannounced reply to the public’s inquires, the California Department of Public Health quietly released a revised FAQ Sheet July...
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CA Senate Bill 930 Passes the Assembly Business & Professions Committee
Senate Bill 930, introduced by Sen. Bob Hertzberg, (D-Van Nuys), passed the Senate on a 29-6 vote, and has now passed the...
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2.4KHip-Hop, A Weed-Friendly Senator And A Playwright: The Story Of How I Made It To 8 Billboard Charts With A Cannabis Poem
It was a May Wednesday morning when I received a text from Jonathan Hay, celebrity publicist and co-producer of the album “The...
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2.0KTurkish Rapper ‘Ezhel’ Faces Prison Time for Cannabis Lyrics
In the 1978 movie “Midnight Express,” a young American would be smuggler, Billy Hayes, is arrested at the Istanbul airport with hash...
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5.7KCanada Passes The Cannabis Act C-45: What Does it Mean?
The Cannabis Act, also known as Bill C-45, the proposed rules related to the legalization of cannabis in Canada, is the bill...
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3.5KUnited Airlines Cashes in on the Cannabis Green Rush
You heard it here first: United Airlines is quietly cashing in on the cannabis industry’s business and tourism green rush. While they...
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2.8KThe First CannaMexico World Summit is Coming to Guanajuato with Vicente Fox
Mexico’s first cannabis conference, The CannaMexico World Summit (CANNAMEX), is taking place in Guanajuato May 30th – 31st and is destined be...
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2.0KFederal Court Sides with DEA in CBD Lawsuit
A three judge panel in the 9th Circuit Court in San Francisco sided with the Drug Enforcement Agency, refusing to reschedule CBD...
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1.6KCould Cynthia Nixon Become NY’s First Pro-Cannabis Governor?
Cannabis users in New York might start calling themselves a “Miranda.” Cynthia Nixon, the former “Sex and the City” star who is...
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1.7KDiane Feinstein Says She Supports Cannabis, Bernie Sanders Endorses The Marijuana Justice Act and President Trump Approves State Cannabis Rights
The landscape of the debate around the federal government’s involvement in states with legalized marijuana is developing and evolving as lawmakers adapt...
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2.2KThe Veterans Affairs Medicinal Cannabis Research Act of 2018 HR 5520
Percocet, Adderall, Klonopin, Effexor, and Wellbutrin. That’s what I took every day when I first got out of the Army. Transitioning out...
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Landlord Sues City of San Bernardino
Stephanie Smith, the owner of a business called Bubba Likes Tortillas, and claims to be California’s largest landlord of marijuana businesses sued...
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2.0KIowa Issues 3 Dispensary Licenses in 5 Cities
The Iowa Department of Public Health announced the last week of March, it would allow medical marijuana sales in five Iowa communities....
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4.3KRoot Sciences: Leading the Future of Concentrates
Root Sciences is helping the cannabis industry evolve to the next level of concentrates by creating specialized distillation equipment you’d think belongs...
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2.7KLong Beach Shuts Down 420 On Board The Queen Mary
On January 1, 2018 many Californians welcomed Proposition 64 with open arms. Baby boomers, Gen-Xers and Millennials alike scurried to the few...
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2.0KIssue 44 Letter From the Editor
Greetings my friends, This month is our “Technology Issue” and we’ve got Root Sciences featured as our cover story to help celebrate...
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2.6KHow I Used Cannabis to Help Me Quit Lyrica
I went cold turkey after about 5 years using 400mg of Lyrica per day. Lyrica is a medication used to treat nerve...
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2.6KCronos Group Inc. Becomes First True Cannabis Company to List on Nasdaq
On Tuesday, February 27th, Cronos Group Inc., a vertically integrated Canadian company, began trading on Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol CRON...
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2.4KOperation Candy Crush: CBD Case Dropped in Tennessee
On February 12, 2018 the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office raided 23 head shops, liquor stores and vape stores seizing CBD infused products,...