IPM consultant Charlie McKenzie scouts a crop of indoor hemp intended for smokable flower in a North Carolina greenhouse. (Photo courtesy of CropWalk) States are becoming increasingly wary of running their own hemp-production programs because of mounting costs and labor requirements for compliance testing and enforcement. The dilemma led North Carolina, a major hemp market, […]
In California, the price that wholesale marijuana is being sold has plummeted, with outdoor farmers selling for 60% less since earlier this summer, according to MJBizDaily. Indoor farmers are fairing better, with prices down just 10-20%, but still on a downward trend. The correlation is rather simple on this one, with the quantity of marijuana […]
Not too long-ago Mexico was bringing illegal weed into the states for American consumers to purchase. Today in the year 2021, the tables have turned. Record amounts of legal weed, grown and packaged in California is now heading south to the border for drug dealers to distribute. Currently, weed is still illegal to possess and […]
Medical cannabis is now legal in part of western North Carolina, but only on Cherokee land, according to a statement from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. On August 5, a local ordinance was approved by The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council, legalizing medical cannabis within the Qualla Boundary. The new law will […]
I can vouch for this. A poll performed by AmericanMarijuana.org asked recipients if they had smoked marijuana during the work day while at home due to the pandemic. Taking all ages into factor, 15% responded in the affirmative. That’s a pretty stunning amount, when considering the large amount and variety of people who were working […]
Houseplant and Canopy are officially broken up. Seth Rogan’s very successful cannabis brand Houseplant has split ways with the Canadian based cannabis brand Canopy Growth. Evan Goldberg, Rogan’s right-hand man has said in a statement on Wednesday that the breakup is ‘mutual’, and they wish the best for Canopy Growth. Canopy Growth is best known […]
We expected New York to really take its time before a marijuana marketplace opens in the state, with the earliest estimates for it to come early next year. This is understandable, considering they have to start up an entirely new industry from relative scratch, red tape and paperwork and all. But this process becomes much […]
Last week, the House of Representatives went into recess before taking up action on the FY-2022 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies appropriations package, which has historically contained protections for state-legal medical programs but in recent years, reformers have had increasing success in advancing efforts to expand those protections to adult-use programs as well. Since […]
The contradictory tones regarding the selling of marijuana and alcohol persist – this time in Montana. Now that marijuana is legal for adult-use in the state, the Montana Department of Revenue has put out some draft rules on advertising, and they’re rather limited. Or, extremely so. That being said, they’re taking public comments for the […]
Marijuana reform activists in several states around the country are already working to qualify various statewide reform measures for the 2022 ballot. Here’s a breakdown of current statewide, citizen-initiated efforts so far: Idaho Depenalization Idaho activists received the green light from the secretary of state’s office to begin collecting signatures for a proposed depenalization ballot […]
