Originally started as a medical dispensary in 2015, Evergreen Cannabis Society became Vancouver’s first legal cannabis retailer when it officially re-opened its doors in January. Sitting at the heart of the city’s Kitsilano neighbourhood, there’s something apt about the locale of Vancouver’s first legal retailer. After all this is an area that was famed during […]
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BERKELEY, CA — One of the nation’s premier learning institutions is bear-hugging the once-feared cannabis plant like never before. A newly formed Cannabis Research Center at UC Berkeley launched Tuesday night. The center could be the beginning of something huge in academia, said co-director Van Butsic, who has a Ph.D in forestry, and is studying […]
On a windy, gray morning earlier this month, the lights were on at Citiva Medical, Brooklyn’s first medical dispensary. The store opened its doors on December 30th, and a sort of soft launch was still underway. After passing through an elegant, blue-tiled anteroom, I encountered a thrum of activity: a TV news crew interviewed the […]
Bill Aims to Improve Access to & Affordability of Medical Cannabis in NM Santa Fe — Today Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino (D-Bernalillo) introduced SB406 to expand access to medical cannabis in New Mexico. The bill includes the recommendations from the 2018 Senate Memorial 105 Medical Cannabis Affordability and Accessibility Task Force, which was convened […]
Imagine a wedding ceremony during which the groom embraces the bride then pulls two joints out of his pocket. The wedding officiant says, “You may now smoke with the bride,” and provides a light to the happy pair, who start their married life with a giant puff of their favourite cannabis strain. Scenarios like this […]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) is a hardline conservative who ranks among the most powerful politicians in Washington, DC. He’s also now an official (albeit unlikely) “hemp hero” thanks to an amendment he added to the massive 2018 Farm Bill that legalized hemp as an agricultural commodity in the United States for the first […]
Traveling can be one of the most rewarding life experiences one can have—but it doesn’t always go hand in hand with cannabis legalization. Unless your future travel plans are taking you to a recreationally legal state, or abroad to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Canada, or Uruguay, it’s unlikely that you will find safe, legal access to cannabis. […]
The state’s attorney in Baltimore says her office will no longer prosecute any marijuana possession cases, regardless of the quantity of the drug or an individual’s prior criminal record. The office is seeking to vacate some 5,000 prior marijuana possession convictions dating to 2011. Marilyn Mosby says cannabis possession cases have no public safety value, […]
TORONTO – The head of regional transportation agency Metrolinx says workers in so-called safety-sensitive positions will be banned from consuming recreational cannabis at all times so that the company can protect the public as well as its employees. CEO Phil Verster said the provincial agency—which operates GO Transit in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area—is […]
A recent curling tournament in Wiarton, Ontario was unremarkable in many ways. It included 16 four-person teams whose members took to the ice aiming to come out on top. But in some ways, it was a bonspiel unlike any other. Photos by John Hryniuk for Leafly Canada From the Stoned Throwers to the Barbara Buds, […]
