Month: June 2019 (Page 16)

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The rights afforded citizens end at the gate of the prison, but not all rights. California prison inmates can’t vote and they can’t smoke cannabis, but they can absolutely possess the drug without incurring additional penalties including extended sentences, a state appeals court ruled last week. Limited amounts of cannabis becameContinue Reading

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New York marijuana proponents are hopeful about an eleventh-hour effort to legalize a billion-dollar-plus recreational market before the legislative session’s scheduled end on Wednesday. Lawmakers are making progress on a potential Senate-backed compromise that could be voted on before adjournment, the New York Post and other media reported. “We’re goingContinue Reading

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Pesticides aren’t caught and loopholes are huge. Things are so bad that the state just punted oversight to a different agency. The post Can Washington Fix Its Broken Cannabis Lab Testing System? appeared first on Leafly. Read More: Can Washington Fix Its Broken Cannabis Lab Testing System?Continue Reading

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Akerna, the newly formed marijuana company involving the merger of cannabis technology company MJ Freeway and MTech, a special purpose acquisition company, is to begin trading on the Nasdaq on June 18. MJ Freeway CEO Jessica Billingsley will lead the company, which will trade under the ticker KERN. The completedContinue Reading

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As legalization speeds (or crawls) forward and we learn more about the plant and how best to enjoy it, a whole slew of new words and scientific terms have made their way into the mainstream of cannabis culture and it can be hard to wade through the haze and keepContinue Reading