Jenna Valleriani, a Ph.D. and advocate for drug policy reform in the Canadian cannabis industry, recently compiled a list of women in marijuana that went viral on Twitter. The final tally: 40 names. As senior-level players from other industries – like investment and mining – enter the market armed withContinue Reading
The $1.3 trillion spending bill prevents the Justice Department from spending money to prosecute MMJ cases in legal states. The post Congressional Budget Deal Includes Medical Marijuana Protections appeared first on Leafly. Read More: Congressional Budget Deal Includes Medical Marijuana ProtectionsContinue Reading
I’m at a warehouse grow on the industrial outskirts of San Francisco — inside a metal shipping container that’s been converted into the grow room for a massive pheno hunt — and I’m practically suffocating on a cacophonous cloud of competing terpene profiles. There’s barely enough room to shuffle pastContinue Reading
The costs stem from a politically-motivated attempt by university administrators in 2012 to block T-shirt designs that featured the ISU mascot and a cannabis leaf. The post Iowa State’s Marijuana Shirt Ban Case Costs School a Million Dollars appeared first on Leafly. Read More: Iowa State’s Marijuana ShirtContinue Reading
Activists and industry advocates alike in Colorado are closely watching a slew of measures now before the state’s General Assembly concerning several aspects of the state’s new cannabis economy and the unfolding norms for use of the herb, which has been officially legal there since 2012. One bill currently proposed in ColoradoContinue Reading
In his ruling, Judge Wendell Griffen said he “takes no joy” in blocking the state from issuing the licenses. The post Arkansas Judge Scraps Medical Marijuana Licensing Process appeared first on Leafly. Read More: Arkansas Judge Scraps Medical Marijuana Licensing ProcessContinue Reading
An Arkansas judge on Wednesday struck down the state’s decision to issue its first licenses to grow medical marijuana, ruling that the process for awarding the permits and the rankings of applicants were unconstitutional. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen granted a preliminary injunction preventing the state Medical Marijuana CommissionContinue Reading
A new report projects $3.7 billion in legal California cannabis sales in 2018. But local bans still shut millions of customers out of the regulated market. The post This Map Reveals California’s Hidden Prohibition Problem appeared first on Leafly. Read More: This Map Reveals California’s Hidden Prohibition ProblemContinue Reading
Hemp farmers in Canada say overproduction is depressing prices for seeds. The Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance told the Commodity News Service that Canadian seed prices have fallen from about 75 Canadian cents (58 cents) a pound last year to 55 Canadian cents a pound this year. Canada remains the world’sContinue Reading
Well, he is at it again. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the anti-drug bruiser, who will go down in infamy for ignorant comments like, “good people don’t smoke marijuana,” spawned another memo from his desk at the U.S. Department of Justice encouraging federal prosecutors to get dirty when it comesContinue Reading
