Martha’s Vineyard is quickly getting into the marijuana business. Late in July, the first dispensary opened up in West Tisbury, at first only serving medical marijuana patients by appointment. Called Fine Fettle Dispensary, they’re awaiting approval to serve recreational customers. Then over in Tisbury, another dispensary titled Island Time is expected to open within the […]
Oregon possesses more cannabis consumers per capita than does any other state, according to data compiled by the online news outlet BestLife. Authors collected data on the percentage of adults in each state who acknowledged having used cannabis within the last year, as compiled by Statista.com. They then cross-referenced those percentages with the most recent population […]
It’s typically news any time Beyoncé does an interview, and while the biggest news from her most recent sit down with Bazaar is that she has new music brewing, our interest was piqued with a section about her venture into creating a hemp farm. “During quarantine, I went from overindulgences to creating positive rituals drawing […]
Medical cannabis is now legal in part of western North Carolina, but only on Cherokee land, according to a statement from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. On August 5, a local ordinance was approved by The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council, legalizing medical cannabis within the Qualla Boundary. The new law will […]
Last week, the House of Representatives went into recess before taking up action on the FY-2022 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies appropriations package, which has historically contained protections for state-legal medical programs but in recent years, reformers have had increasing success in advancing efforts to expand those protections to adult-use programs as well. Since […]
Marijuana reform activists in several states around the country are already working to qualify various statewide reform measures for the 2022 ballot. Here’s a breakdown of current statewide, citizen-initiated efforts so far: Idaho Depenalization Idaho activists received the green light from the secretary of state’s office to begin collecting signatures for a proposed depenalization ballot […]
Puerto Rico’s Governor has signed legislation into law protecting qualified medical cannabis patients from workplace discrimination. The legislation amends Puerto Rico’s medical marijuana access law so that registered patients are now classified as members of a protected class under the US territory’s employment protection laws. Under the expanded law, employers may not discriminate against authorized […]
There may be no more solidified representation of a pothead than that of a lazy, long haired, couch-centric being. However, a new study was just released that shows a lack of evidence supporting this. According to the authors, past studies would show, at best, mixed results between weed and laziness, and were all targeted towards […]
NORML is pleased to announce that it has updated and revised its publication, Clinical Applications For Cannabis & Cannabinoids: A Review of the Recent Scientific Literature, 2000 — 2021. This updated edition reviews over 450 peer-reviewed studies assessing the safety and efficacy of either whole-plant cannabis or individual cannabinoids in 23 different patient populations, including […]
A research fund of $700,000 has been given to a medical school in Australia to test the benefits of giving children in the advanced stages of cancer a prescription for medical marijuana to manage their pain and sleep. This will be a three-year study, and will tackle the largely untouched and taboo field of marijuana […]
