Day: October 22, 2019

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Every year the news scares parents into thinking their kids may be given cannabis edibles as trick-or-treat candy. Here’s 5 reasons why they’re wrong. The post 5 reasons why no one’s giving your kid edibles appeared first on Leafly. Read More: 5 reasons why no one’s giving yourContinue Reading

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Rhode Island’s governor is asking a judge to declare the Legislature’s control over new medical marijuana and hemp regulations unconstitutional. Gov. Gina Raimondo said Tuesday she’s suing in Superior Court because the Democratic-controlled Legislature, in provisions of the state budget, violated the constitutional guarantee of separation of powers by givingContinue Reading

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Connecticut lawmakers on Tuesday approved medical cannabis to treat an additional five conditions, which likely will boost MMJ sales in the state. The General Assembly’s Regulations Review Committee voted to add the conditions, including Tourette syndrome and intractable neuropathic pain. Legislators also approved medical marijuana as a treatment for patients youngerContinue Reading

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Medical marijuana regulators in Oklahoma are close to licensing testing laboratories, but MMJ growers and processors in what had been a lightly regulated market have been required to test product batches for pesticides and potency for nearly two months. State regulators said they would begin accepting lab applications on Nov.Continue Reading

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Georgia’s 6-month-old limited medical marijuana program has failed to move forward because no one has been appointed to a commission that will oversee the new industry. Politicians contacted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution gave no reason why no one has been appointed to the Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission. MoreContinue Reading

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Every prominent candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination who is not named Joe Biden is on record supporting marijuana legalization. This broad cannabis consensus is a sharp swing from 2016, when the two major candidates — former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who took a Biden-like, centrist approach; andContinue Reading

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Terra Carver has lived in California’s Humboldt County nearly her entire life. Since January 2017, she’s served as executive director of the Humboldt County Growers Alliance (HCGA), a coalition she co-founded with the aim of helping longtime local marijuana farmers transition successfully into the new legal market. The first yearContinue Reading