When the Farm Bill was enacted in 2018, it seems that not all of the information on the complex cannabis plant was known, and a loophole has formed in the shape of delta-8 THC, which also contains psychoactive components and legalized along with the rest of the hemp plant via that bill. Since the discovery […]
Woody Harrelson is a big pot smoker, proven by his new business venture in the weed industry. Last week, Harrelson opened a dispensary in the hip West Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Judging from images of the interior, it’s a gorgeous piece of real estate. What makes the opening even more exciting is that it […]
Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, has released a budget proposal for May that would strip the Cultivation Tax from being collected during the cultivation of marijuana. This would lower the overall cost of purchase once it hits retail stores and incentivize buying in the legal market. According to an analysis by Reason Foundation, stripping the […]
The opioid epidemic continues in the US, with the amount of overdose deaths reaching a new height of 108,000 in 2021. This is the second year in a row that deaths have surpassed 100,000. New data has just been published by the CDC giving some insight on what drugs are causing the upswing. Fentanyl is […]
Madrigal Mental Care, a biopharmaceutical company from Israel, has announced a nasal spray with the purpose to treat PTSD and anxiety. Nanoparticles of psilocybin are in the spray, along with ketamine and MDMA. The spray will be introduced fully at the Biomed Israel 2022 conference taking place May 10-12 in Tel Aviv. Hopefully we’ll get […]
The abortion debate has been raging in the American discourse for the past couple days due to a draft majority opinion paper leaked from Justice Samuel Alito. His opinion is that Roe v. Wade went too far in its decision, and the right to individual autonomy is more limited than was previously debated. “These attempts […]
Here’s some ingenuity in the weed industry. Despite, or perhaps due to, working on the illicit side of things. A local Detroit news station reports that a man’s house was raided after getting a tip that he was selling weed out of a vending machine outside the home. The vending machine itself looks very sophisticated […]
The weed business is booming in Las Vegas, with eventual plans for cannabis-friendly hotels opening in the city, and one of the biggest cannabis expos held there every year. But elsewhere in the state of Nevada, things aren’t so rosy due to a loophole in the law of the state. Despite possession being legalized in […]
One of the bigger high profile launches of retail this year happened the day after 4/20 in New Jersey. At 13 locations, there were lines out the door and streaming down the street. So all signs were pointing to a successful first day. But exactly how successful was it? In total, customers bought $1.9 million […]
Regulations were created last month for giving out Cannabis licenses in the state of New York, and that process should come full circle by fall of 2022, according to Cannabis Control Board Chair Tremaine Wright at a public forum on Saturday. Dispensary license holders will be able to receive loans with interest, not grants or […]
