Day: September 24, 2018

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Donald Trump’s first year in office saw a slight bump in the total number of Americans arrested for marijuana. According to FBI data released today, marijuana arrests composed over 40 percent of the 1,632,921 total drug arrests made by the 12,606 U.S. law enforcement agencies in 2017. The total number ofContinue Reading

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Oklahoma’s business-friendly medical cannabis law is seemingly coming to fruition: Regulators already have approved more than 1,100 business licenses with roughly 600 additional applications in the pipeline, according to a tweet by state officials Monday. That total comes less than a month since the state started taking applications Aug. 25.Continue Reading

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While Germany is on track to become one of the largest federally legal medical marijuana markets in the world, a lack of publicly available data on consumption makes it difficult for companies to assess the actual market opportunities. Unlike Health Canada, German authorities don’t publish centralized statistical information of theContinue Reading

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When it comes to shaping the cannabis experience, terpenes are just as important as THC. Here’s why you should care. The post Beyond THC: It’s Time to Assert the Primacy of Terpenes appeared first on Leafly. Read More: Beyond THC: It’s Time to Assert the Primacy of TerpenesContinue Reading

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The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in the North Pacific region of Micronesia, some 3,800 miles due west of Hawaii, is the now headed toward legal cannabis. The commonwealth’s Gov. Ralph Torres on Sept. 21 signed the Sensible Cannabis Act of 2018, which was approved in the territory’s Senate a week earlier andContinue Reading

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People caught smoking marijuana in public in the nation’s capital will now get a citation instead of being taken into custody. The post DC Scales Back Punishment for Public Cannabis Consumption appeared first on Leafly. Read More: DC Scales Back Punishment for Public Cannabis ConsumptionContinue Reading

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Oregon marijuana regulators canceled the license of a grower with an operation linked to a butane honey oil explosion that burned two people. According to The Bulletin, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC ) announced that High Cascade Farms in Deschutes County is having its recreational marijuana producer license canceledContinue Reading

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The world of CBD continues to garner more and more attention, much of the time on the back of hemp-derived CBD extracts. However, it’s important to remember that the hype all started with full-spectrum extracts made from exceptional high-CBD cannabis. People didn’t use extracts derived from industrial hemp to getContinue Reading