Voters across California have just six days left to weigh in on the cost of cannabis in their communities. “We’re not against cannabis taxes, but the should be comparable to taxes imposed on similar businesses.” David Goldman, president, San Francisco chapter, Brownie Mary Democratic Club Roughly 26 cities and counties have sent recreational marijuana tax […]
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Scorpio season is here and it’s asking us to dive deep into the waters of our subconscious, determine what is and isn’t working in our lives, and clean house once we’ve figured it out. Venus continues retrograde through November 16th, so expect a few more weeks of relationship reruns and re-evaluations before she stations direct. […]
A federal jury in Denver ruled in favor of a cannabis cultivator in southern Colorado on Wednesday, following a first-of-its-kind trial that targeted the legal cannabis industry using federal anti-racketeering laws. The case started with a civil lawsuit filed in 2015 by a Colorado couple, Hope and Michael Reilly, along with the Washington, DC-based group, Safe […]
Citing similar worries, Colorado legislators—and California regulators—prohibited candy shapes resembling “humans, animals or fruit,” effectively banning THC gummy bears while mandating that warning symbols get stamped on the actual edible. California, still in the early stages of cannabis legalization, hasn’t experienced any pushback yet on sugary weed treats, so get out there and eat those […]
TORONTO (AP) — The name of the store is High North, but it might as well be named High and Dry because for all but about four hours of the first two weeks since marijuana was legalized in Canada, there was no pot to sell. Trevor Tobin, one of the owners of the Labrador City […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court issued two more rulings Wednesday ordering that complainants in individual cases be allowed to use marijuana for recreational purposes, establishing a precedent that a blanket prohibition on pot is unconstitutional. ‘The effects provoked by marijuana do not justify an absolute prohibition of its consumption,’ the court ruled. The […]
This article is sponsored by Vitalis Extraction, manufacturer of some of the world’s most sophisticated supercritical CO2 extraction equipment. As cannabis legalization spreads across North America, it’s bringing with it new methods of cannabis consumption. While beautiful and diverse selections of flower are easy to find in any dispensary, more and more of the products […]
It’s tough to box Fat Tony into a single category. For over a decade, the Nigerian-American artist has been a major figure within the underground rap scene, but curiously, it’s not just his rapping ability that’s aided in his reputation—though Tony’s pen does hold mighty sharp. Tony’s song is a stray from typical weed anthems, […]
While it was widely reported in much of Canadian media that strike action from Canada Post would result in delayed deliveries, it appears that the problem isn’t with the mail sorters and carriers, but supply chain issues. Earlier this month, the OCS issued a public statement signed by president Patrick Ford that read: “The unbelievably […]
After months of battle between Michigan’s medical cannabis dispensaries and the state regulatory agency—the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Agency (LARA)—it seems that the conflict may be finally coming to an end. Officials at LARA have been trying for months to shut down certain dispensaries (known in Michigan as provisioning facilities) that have not yet […]
