We caught up with Bruce Linton, co-founder and former co-CEO of Canopy Growth, to get his take on the state of cannabis in Canada, one year into legalization. The post Where are they now? Bruce Linton, formerly Canopy Growth appeared first on Leafly. Read More: Where are theyContinue Reading
Jamaica plans to overhaul the interim regulations governing legal marijuana businesses and create a national road map to support the development of the island’s regulated industry. The support could help businesses overcome obstacles hindering the sector’s growth, which include banking issues and finding markets for products. The Agriculture Ministry (MICAF) willContinue Reading
A fledgling United Kingdom-based trade group, which represents about 25 companies from Europe and North America, is seeking to allow its members to sell CBD products even though they might be in violation of European Union regulations. New European trade group hopes to help its members put CBD products inContinue Reading
The percentage of military veterans facing challenges from PTSD is staggering — and research shows that medical marijuana can provide relief to people struggling with the illness. However, the Department of Veterans Affairs remains intransigent on allowing veterans access to cannabis within its medical system, and legislators haven’t taken actionContinue Reading
A new Florida law repealing a ban on smokable medical marijuana products has given the state’s MMJ market a shot in the arm, prompting large multistate companies to aggressively expand their production, operations and retail footprints. That has injected fresh competition into one of the nation’s fastest-growing medical cannabis markets and loosenedContinue Reading
It’s been since early May when I smoked my last joint and that’s hard to believe. I have survived! For the few first months, I researched the art of edibles, perhaps the most benign form of cannabis ingestion and yet also the most stoney and, depending on the dose, theContinue Reading
As esteemed cannabis author Ed Rosenthal says, “marijuana may not be addictive, but growing it is.” Now is the time of year when both commercially licensed companies and homegrowers are taking down their plants and facing the next challenge: curing their finished cannabis buds. While Rosenthal is absolutely right whenContinue Reading
The biggest development in the marijuana space this year has been a vaping-related health crisis in which hundreds of Americans have fallen ill and two dozen-plus have died from pulmonary illnesses linked to the practice. How cannabis vaporizer firms can protect themselves in the wake of vaping crisis is aContinue Reading
On Oct. 31, the Sheriff’s Office in Kern County, California, a stretch of mostly unincorporated farmland in the state’s mostly conservative heartland, laid claim to one of the biggest marijuana busts in recorded history, if not the very biggest. A few days before, as the Bakersfield Californian first reported, sheriff’s deputiesContinue Reading
No state reacted more swiftly or more decisively to the still-ongoing outbreak of lung illnesses, injuries, and deaths connected to vaporizer use than Massachusetts. In September, a few weeks after the first of what is now 39 deaths and counting nationwide were reported, Republican Gov. Charlie Baker in September imposed a four-month ban onContinue Reading
