As of 2019, Legal Cannabis Has Created 211,000 Full-Time Jobs in America How many jobs are there in the legal cannabis industry? It’s a common question—and one the government refuses to answer. Because cannabis remains federally illegal, employment data agencies such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics ignore all jobs related to the industry. Legal […]
Hemp might be federally legal in the 2018 US farm bill and in states like Oregon—but hemp remains illegal in Idaho and other conservative states. That legal schism is making for quite the mess across the US. Despite new national law, hemp’s held up just like its psychoactive cousin, cannabis. The US hemp market is […]
Grace DeNoya is used to getting snickers when people learn she’s majoring in marijuana. “My friends make good-natured jokes about getting a degree in weed,” said DeNoya, one of the first students in a new four-year degree program in medicinal plant chemistry at Northern Michigan University. “I say, ‘No, it’s a serious degree, a chemistry […]
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is giving prospective hemp farmers a status update on the Trump administration’s efforts to regulate the newly legal crop. The plans include a public listening session to be held in March 2019. While the 2018 Farm Bill federally legalized hemp, the USDA has to develop a regulatory process and […]
HONOLULU (AP) — On the political spectrum, Hawaii is among the bluest of states. Democrats control all the levers of power at the state and federal levels, and voters back Democratic presidential candidates over Republicans by some of the widest margins in the U.S. The state has committed to the Paris climate agreement that President […]
US Surgeon General Jerome Adams recently used his official Twitter account to make a startling claim: Contrary to the promises made by criminal-justice and drug-policy reform advocates, he said, the era of legal adult-use cannabis has actually led to more people of color being arrested. DYK that in most states that have legalized adult use […]
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s first medical marijuana dispensary opens for business Friday in a Fargo mini-mall, two years after voters took matters into their own hands to legalize the drug for treatment. Patients who visit The Botanist will find themselves walking into a room that has the feel of a spa or salon, […]
A new cannabis legalization bill landed in Congress on Thursday, and it already has the support of leading Democratic presidential candidates. But the Marijuana Justice Act would do much more than just greenlight cannabis nationally. It also aims to undo the detrimental—and racially disproportionate—consequences of the drug war. RELATED STORY Blumenauer: Congress Will Be ‘Better […]
Take some CBD, they said. You’ll feel less high, they said. This common piece of advice fed to THC-shy consumers can effectively bring someone back down to earth. It works—sometimes. But new research shows there’s likely more nuance in the solution that we initially thought. Scientists found that a high dose of CBD dampened the effects […]
