Cannabis culture has come a long way since the old days of Cheech & Chong, and with that, members of the community are ready to shed the myriad stereotypes that have been heaped cannabis consumers over the years. As times change, so do mindsets, and there are plenty of stoner stereotypes that finally need to […]
Ask any Garden State patient about their medical cannabis program and they’ll tell you it stinks. Medical cannabis is expensive and the rules governing the program are onerous and prohibitive. But relief is on the way. Earlier this year, the state approved more dispensaries, and Bill S10, which would massively improve medical cannabis access in […]
Vancouver’s first licensed cannabis store is set to open this week. Evergreen Cannabis owner Mike Babins said the store was issued its provincial license on Christmas Eve and plans to open its doors on Jan. 5. As long as it receives a municipal license, it will be the first legal store in the city since […]
New Year’s Day, 2019, marks the five-year anniversary of the first legal, recreational cannabis sales in Colorado. The first person to make that historic purchase, and the first of its kind in the nation, was a Marine Corps veteran and cannabis activist named Sean Azzariti. Surrounded by local, national, and international media, Azzariti purchased about […]
A new study by a researcher at Harvard is tackling the subject of cannabis’ medicinal properties for menstrual pain. The study is pairing with cannabis brand Foria, and will observe the effects of Foria’s cannabis suppositories on 400 women over several months. It is the first study of its kind, and researchers hope that it […]
John Flickner, the 78-year-old medical cannabis patient who was evicted from his Niagara Falls, NY, apartment last week, was welcomed back by his landlord on Monday. But his hassles are far from over. As a result of the dustup, the program that coordinates his health care has dropped him, leaving him without access to doctors […]
SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A third retail marijuana shop is set to open in Massachusetts. Alternative Therapies Group in Salem has received final licensing approval from the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission and could begin retail sales as soon as this weekend. The shop currently operates as a cannabis dispensary serving registered patients. The first two […]
Exactly one week before he was elected governor of Nevada, Steve Sisolak was at the grand opening gala for Planet 13, a new kind of dispensary that bills itself as the first superstore for cannabis in Las Vegas. On this particular night, like throughout his entire campaign, Sisolak didn’t hide his support for the business […]
In 1985, legendary cannabis activist Jack Herer published a magnum opus called The Emperor Wears No Clothes, which through painstaking research told the hidden history of hemp—a once-revered crop cultivated for more than 10,000 years that played a vital role in America’s economy from colonial times until the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 made growing […]
Altria, the parent company of tobacco giant Philip Morris whose $1.8 billion investment in a cannabis company was announced Friday, has over the past five years quietly patented dozens of devices that could be used to consume marijuana, a review of public documents at the US Patent and Trademark Office shows. Altria’s patents and patent […]
