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Recreational marijuana: How Colorado plans to regulate the pot market
Colorado made history Tuesday when Governor John Hickenlooper signed six billsinto law that will govern the cultivation, sale, and taxation of recreational marijuana, creating the first legal framework in the U.S. for recreational marijuana use. Last November, Coloradans voted to approve a constitutional amendment on recreational marijuana. The measure, Amendment 64, will allow Colorado adults–21 and
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Where to Buy Marijuana in Los Angeles After Dispensary Ban Takes Effect
Now that the L.A. City Council has decided that all medical marijuana dispensaries must shut down by Sept. 6, where will you get your medicine? The slacker down the street? No, he was put out of business by the dispensaries. MacArthur Park? Cleaned up years ago. Tijuana? You want to end up in Mexican prison over
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Uruguay Understands You Can’t Tax Legal Weed If You Want to Undercut Black Market
Uruguay is the first nation in the world that’s embarked on the project of legalized and regulated marijuana. In many respects, Uruguay’s legal marijuana market is more tightly controlled than those emerging in Colorado and Washington. The government, for example, will be a primary distributor of the product, and all users will have to register with it.
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PureCure 0.5g THC Extract Pre-filled Vaporizer Cartridge Review
The PureCure half-gram vape refill is one of the best oils on the market today and should not be missed. As with many of the not so green vape pen refills, the PureCure 500mg is a standard setup of screw-on one pieces, with the atomizer, tank and mouthpiece available as a standard 510 screw-on cartridge.
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There’s Only One Week to Sign and Mail in Medical Marijuana Petitions FLORIDA GET UP AND VOTE!!!
The push is on to make Florida the next state to legalize medical marijuana. Organizers have one month to get 700,000 signatures on a petition to get the issue on the November ballot. But since state laws require that the petitions be paper petitions that are mailed in via snail mail — not online ones
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Francis Slay On Pot Prosecution: “I’m Not For Legalizing Marijuana. It Sends A Bad Message.”
Francis Slay, the mayor of St. Louis, is opposed to legalizing marijuana, as two states did in the last election. Not that anyone is asking him. In response to a question from Daily RFT about the proposal at the Board of Aldermen to reduce the punishment for possession of small amounts of pot, Slay says he’s against legalization. But
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Parents ask Kansas lawmakers to legalize cannabis oil
TOPEKA, Kan. —Parents have appealed to Kansas lawmakers in an effort to legalize cannabis oil for certain types of medical conditions. Tracy Robles, a mother who lives near Wichita, said her daughter suffers from violent seizures every day. She said the family must decide whether to move to Colorado, where marijuana is legal, in an
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Greenlane IPO: 5 things to know about the closest thing to a U.S. cannabis company to go public on Nasdaq
Wholesaler supplies vaporizer products and more to pot stores and head shops Greenlane Holdings Inc. plans to raise roughly $98 million through an initial public offering on the Nasdaq, which would arguably make it the closest thing to a U.S. cannabis company available for trade on a major U.S. exchange. The Boca Raton, Florida, company
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Feds Propose Taxing Marijuana, True Cash Crop
With all the upheaval in Washington, it isn’t likely that federal proposals to tax marijuana will pass anytime soon. Yet as Professor Paul Caron catalogs, economists are looking anew at the proposed Marijuana Tax Equity Act (H.R. 501). It would end the federal prohibition on marijuana and allow it to be taxed. Growers, sellers and users would not to fear violating federal
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US federal prison population soars
The number of federal prisoners has ballooned from 25,000 inmates in 1980 to 219,000 today, according to a new Congressional Research report. That’s a jump of almost 790 percent. Think Progress notes that the report blames a sharp increase of “draconian mandatory minimum sentences, the elimination of parole for any federal crime committed after
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Marijuana use `doubles` stroke risk in young adults
Washington: Smoking marijuana may double the risk of stroke in young adults, according to new research. In a New Zealand study, ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) patients were 2.3 times more likely to have cannabis, also known as marijuana, detected in urine tests as other age and sex matched patients, researchers said. “This
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Israel’s cannabis scientist
JERUSALEM — An award-winning professor of medicinal chemistry and natural products at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Raphael Mechoulam is a trim gentleman who wears tweed jackets and silk scarves. He is no slacker. At 82, he still works full-time. Despite Mechoulam’s respectability, his greatest fame stems from two scientific breakthroughs that may earn him a warm welcome among
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MAINE COMPASS: Medical marijuana program faces uncertainty from new rules
Imagine that you have Crohn’s disease, terminal cancer or chronic pain from a serious car accident. You’ve tried all the drugs out there, but they make you nauseated, withdrawn or cause severe headaches. When you try to stop taking them, you feel anxious and crampy and can’t sleep. You’re scared because friends have gotten
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Can cannabis put you on path to better health?
Joe is an ordinary guy. And Joe is a smoker. He doesn’t want to smoke. He’s read the government statistics that say he’s among nearly 38 million Americans who smoke and that the habit causes some 480,000 deaths a year. He’s tried to stop, and he’s failed. But there may be hope, and that hope
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Marijuana legalization group makes bid to air Super Bowl commercial
DMITRIY NOROV/GETTY IMAGES The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws is hoping it can win a contest sponsored by Intuit to have its pro-legalization ad aired during the Super Bowl XLVIII. If they don’t know already, Americas could soon find out whether marijuana and the Super Bowl mix. A pro-pot group has been
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Why New York Is Considering Legalizing Marijuana
NEW YORK — Back in 1998, 14-year-old Alfredo Carrasquillo and his friends were heading to a Bronx apartment where they planned to smoke pot and listen to some Tupac when a cop car pulled up on the curb “as if it was a movie or something.” The cops ordered Carrasquillo and his friends to stand
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Cannabis culture thriving in Morocco’s Rif Mountains
Thousands of poor farmers depend on illegal plant as Rabat struggles to combat hashish crops with diversification policy. Middle East Online By Simon MARTELLI – ISSAGUEN, Morocco From father to son “If you try to grow other crops here they will fail,” says Ahmed, surrounded by lush green fields of cannabis, the illegal plant he
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The Little Book of Cannabis packs a mighty punch
Amanda Seibert is an award-winning journalist and photographer based in British Columbia who covers the cannabis industry as one of Canada’s first cannabis-specific editors. Seibert is best known for her work with the Georgia Straight and Leafly. In her first book, The Little Book of Cannabis: How Marijuana Can Improve Your Life, Seibert explores common myths and misconceptions
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Economist magazine hails Uruguay for legalising cannabis and gay marriage
British magazine The Economist has chosen Uruguay as its country of the year. The title, explaining its decision (registration maybe required), praised the country’s “path-breaking reforms” that “might benefit the world”. Uruguay has passed a law to legalise and regulate the production, sale and consumption of cannabis. It also legalised gay marriage – a policy The Economist said had “increased the
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Taxes related to marijuana, schools and animal welfare working way toward ballot
Voters in Larimer County this November likely will be asked to pay higher taxes to pay for regulation of recreational marijuana, an increase in public school funding and a new local haven for wayward animals. Here’s a look at taxes working their way toward the ballot: MARIJUANA A $100 bag of marijuana would cost
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