Views: 2 While Biden has granted pardons for anyone with a cannabis possession, there are still about 3,000 people in federal prison due to cannabis. They would need to get released through a commutation of their sentences. To be fair to Biden, most pardons and clemency actions happen in the last few months before a […]
Views: 2 Trulieve has sued the Florida Republican party for “false and misleading” ads about Amendment 3, which would legalize marijuana in the state. They made these claims in a mailer and ads across the state. The main point that Trulieve has issue with is the argument that only large corporations in the state would […]
Views: 2 Democratic candidate for the US Presidency Kamala Harris hasn’t done many interviews, but she’s starting to get out there on the trail. Her most recent stop was with a podcast titled “All the Smoke”. At the end of the interview they did some quick questions, and one was about her views on cannabis. […]
Views: 4 The FBI report for 2023 finally came out, and everyone is parsing through the data. One promising statistic is that crime is down 3% from 2022, with murder/manslaughter down even more, at 11.6%. However, it’s disheartening to see in the data that over 200,000 people were arrested for just the possession of marijuana. […]
Views: 4 Each year people in the marijuana industry get together in Santa Rosa for a convention that touts some of the most promising products in the world of weed. This year was the first in which regular consumers could be a part of the action, and that made it all the more exciting. Greenstate […]
Views: 2 There’s a big difference between smoking a joint and smoking from a vape. Of course, one is convenience. I even find myself preferring the vape due to the lack of smell and the overall ease of use. You can pull it out basically anywhere without making a fuss. But, according to Dr. Laurie […]
Views: 4 We wouldn’t be where we are today in terms of the War on Drugs if it wasn’t for President Nixon’s efforts. Back in 1971, he officially began this opaque War on Drugs. Thus began the Controlled Substances Act the same year, and a categorization of most known substances depending on their perceived danger […]
Due to its unique and diverse environment, Colombia has become a very exciting place to grow weed. They’ve got snow-covered volcanoes, tropical beaches, deserts, grasslands, rainforests, and unique combos of most of those. It’s unlike anywhere else in the world, and this makes the plants there thrive in totally different ways. So a new study […]
In its first 25 days of business, Ohio made $44,051,671 in gross revenue. That’s pretty good! This is compared to $24 million brought in in New Jersey (although they only had 12 dispensaries open at the time) and $40 million for Illinois back in 2020. Ohio had 98 dispensaries open at the start of legalization, […]
Donald Trump came out of nowhere with his endorsement for the Florida ballot initiative that would legalize marijuana in the state, and as you’d expect, lots of his fellow Republicans aren’t too pleased. One very prominent voice, Kevin Sabet, the president of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, was quoted saying this is “election-year politics at its […]
