Representatives Dave Joyce (R-OH) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) introduced legislation to incentivize state and local governments to expunge the criminal records of tens of millions of Americans who have previously been convicted of marijuana offenses. “This bipartisan effort represents the growing consensus to reform marijuana policies in a manner that addresses the harms inflicted by […]
“There’s no evidence to my knowledge that occasional [adult] marijuana use has harmful effects. I don’t know of any scientific evidence of that,” said National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director Nora Volkow in an interview with FiveThieryEight last Tuesday. This is a huge step in the fight for legalization because of the implication this […]
New York City has authorized two separate Safe Injection Sites to be opened within the city, the first to officially open in the United States. The sites will open in East Harlem and Washington Heights. In the buildings, clean needles will be provided, along with naloxone in case overdoses occur. Visitors will have to bring […]
Uber eats is coming to the marijuana delivery market. In a groundbreaking step, customers in Ontario Canada can now purchase marijuana off the Uber East app. The caveat is that they must go pick up the weed after ordering through the app. This new method of buying weed brings corporations one step closer to being […]
Indica equals “In Da Couch” and Sativa gets your mind stimulated. That, along with earthy aromas for indica and a sweeter smell for sativa, is how the thinking goes. But this may be an extreme simplification that just doesn’t hold up when analyzed. A team of researchers at Dalhousie University went deep, studying hundreds of […]
After testing for most products was botched over a three month period at Viridis Laboratories in Michigan, the state’s Marijuana Regulatory Agency has issued a large recall. Notably, products that do not fall under this recall are “inhalable marijuana concentrate products” like vapes, live resin, and distillate. This could be devastating to some retailers in […]
So maybe federal legalization isn’t as bipartisan as we previously thought… As soon as Republican Representative Nancy Mace announced her legalization bill, GOP lawmakers from her hometown of South Carolina released a statement against the effort. “Unequivocally, the South Carolina Republican Party is against any effort to legalize, decriminalize the use of controlled substances, and […]
Earlier this month Geoff Whaling introduced a plan to inject $500 million into the hemp industry to “unlock the value” of the hemp crop. Geoff Whaling launched the replant Hemp impact Fund, a first-to-market ESG fund that looks to focus on hemp for food and fiber and works on developing infrastructure within American hemp industries […]
The war of “Legalization Details” is about the begin–a new phase spawned after everyone is pretty much in agreement that the plant should be legal. In the House, Republicans have announced their own legalization bill called the States Reform Act (not the flashiest title, imo). The bill is sponsored by Rep. Nancy Mace from South […]
The sales numbers for marijuana in the month of September were 6% lower than August in the state of Colorado. September had a total of $181.1 million in sales, while August reached $192.9, according to a sales report. Now one month is not nearly enough data to show any sort of pattern, but the downward […]
