Month: June 2018 (Page 22)

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The Oregon Court of Appeals rejected an appeal by county commissioners in southern Oregon, a prime marijuana-growing part of the state, to reinstate restrictions on commercial cannabis production. The appeals court’s dismissal without comment Wednesday of the Josephine County commissioners’ case marks the latest step in the struggle between growers tryingContinue Reading

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Imagine, if you will, Canadian soldiers during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915 smoking marijuana in the doomsday trenches of World War I rather than gasping for air through the urine-soaked handkerchiefs they used protect their lungs against the German’s poison gas attacks. Well, we don’t have to tellContinue Reading

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The prospects that retail marijuana shops will open in Massachusetts by July 1 appeared to be dimming on Thursday. The current law allows retail sales of recreational marijuana to begin on or after that July 1 date. But the Cannabis Control Commission met without issuing the first commercial business licenses. Steven Hoffman,Continue Reading

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The stores’ offerings are labeled “Do not smoke.” The products bear no guarantees for effect, medicinal or otherwise. Even the merchants themselves don’t advise consuming it — because, legally, all they’re selling is rope. Yet lines to enter Paris’s “Cofyshop” over the weekend stretched far down the street just the same,Continue Reading

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Tuesday, June 12 is not a great day for the Frisian couple Tabe Koopmans and Brigitte Boomsma. They had to move with their animals to a cowshed. Not voluntarily, of course, but because their municipality De Fryske Marren closed their rental house for 3 months because there were 45 cannabisContinue Reading