The Church of England, the largest and most influential religious organization in Great Britain, announced this week that it will lift a longstanding prohibition on medical cannabis in order to explore investing in the fast-growing and potentially stupendously profitable industry. RELATED STORY Britain’s Medical Cannabis Wall Is Tumbling Down The organization’s Church Commissioners are responsible for managing […]
Fear can be crippling. Don’t live your life in fear. “Pesticide” is the most serious buzzword in all of cannabis right now. It’s damn near Voldemort. The reason is, for consumers, the word has been directly linked to the thought of “dangerous cannabis.” But before we throw up the red alert beacons about all things […]
LGBTQ Pride celebrations happen throughout the month of June in the US, and the increasingly mainstream embrace of a free-wheelin’, rainbow-draped party season along with legal cannabis means crossover marketing is here. Being an effective ally to those in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual community requires more than simply slapping a […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California appeals court says it’s legal to have small amounts of marijuana in prison — so long as inmates don’t inhale. The 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled that California voters legalized possession of less than an ounce (28 grams) of cannabis by adults 21 and over in 2016, with […]
It’s a pretty extraordinary milestone, and an indicator of just how financially strong the legal marijuana market has become. In a little more than five years since becoming the first state to legalize recreational cannabis, Colorado says it’s gone past the $1 billion mark in marijuana tax revenue. The money that once fed illegal cartels […]
This article is presented by Rx Green Technologies, a provider of specialty agricultural products designed with the cannabis industry in mind. As the team at RX Green Technologies worked to develop new agricultural products that help cannabis cultivators get the most out of their operations, they learned firsthand how tough it can be to do rigorous […]
Oregon’s Legislature made history this week by passing the nation’s first cannabis export bill, a measure designed to allow Oregon to send cannabis products across state lines. Senate Bill 582 now goes to the governor’s office, where Gov. Kate Brown is expected to sign it. “The future of this industry is that cannabis will primarily […]
In New York State overdose claims more lives than car accidents, suicides and homicides combined. Now, the New York legislature may be on the verge of doing something about it by passing two bills critical to laying the foundation to universal access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT). The Senate just passed these bills today (June 12), […]
Across Ontario, police and municipalities are hard at work raiding and shutting down those illicit dispensaries left over from before legalization. Unauthorized cannabis sellers, however, are not making it easy for them. Last Tuesday, Hamilton police victoriously announced they had shut down the last of that city’s more than 40 illicit dispensaries. “It’s a fluid […]
Cannabis might be legal across the country but laws do vary from province to province. While many of the regulations are as expected—touching on the who, how much, and where legal cannabis can be purchased, possessed, and consumed—there are still some, shall we say, odd cannabis-related laws on the books. That’s why Leafly scoured Canadian […]
