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Canada’s Marijuana Sales Top $100 Million in a Single Month for the First Time
It’s pretty incredible what a difference a year can make. At this time last year, cannabis stocks were flying high, and the expectation had been that most brand-name companies would push toward recurring profitability by the end of the year. Of course, hinds…
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The 3 Most Important States for Marijuana Stock Investors
Despite its recent hiccups, marijuana is expected to be one of the fastest-growing industries on the planet over the next decade. Although estimates rightly vary on Wall Street, which is to be expected of an industry with no modern-day legal precedent, the ex…
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Even when weed is legal, employees face risks
As more states legalize or move toward legalizing medicinal or recreational cannabis, many may assume that they’re free to partake in accordance with the law. But, for employees, smoking or otherwise ingesting marijuana could possibly lead to disciplinary act…
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Marijuana Plays Role as a Cure for Epilepsy
A 1949 study showed that drug principles isolated from leaves of marijuana, an innocent looking plant that grows wild in different parts of the world are playing an important role in research on a cure for epilepsy. This is the same marijuana which so many people fear as a habit-forming drug and which is noted…
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Marijuana legalization is about to have a huge year
A marijuana-themed neon sign on display at the Cannabis World Congress in Los Angeles on September 27, 2018. | Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto via Getty Images At least 18 states stand to loosen their marijuana laws this year. It looks like 2020 could be a very big yea…
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White Weed Entrepreneurs Are Gaming Programs Meant to Help People of Color
The crowd started to gather outside the narrow storefront at about 11 p.m. on December 20. The grand opening the following morningof Berner’s on Haight, San Francisco’s newest legal cannabis storewas apparently worth queuing up for all night long. While th…
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Does Cannabis Have a Shot at Being Federally Legalized?
At this moment, 11 American states and Washington, D.C. now have adult-use cannabis legislation law on its books. When it comes to medical, 33 states have passed regulations. Additionally, 24 states and the country’s capital decriminalized marijuana in some form or another. With over half of the United States passing cannabis legislation, some wonder…get the…
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66,000 marijuana convictions in Los Angeles County being dismissed
CNN | Nearly 66,000 marijuana convictions in Los Angeles County will be dismissed thanks in part to state laws that paved the way for the action, the county district attorney said Thursday.The cases include 62,000 felony convictions for cases — including those for marijuana sales and cultivation — dating back to 1961, and about 4,000…
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Florida men arrested after hiding drugs in bags labeled “Bag Full of Drugs”
Two gentlemen in Florida couldn’t have been more accommodating in pointing police to their massive stash of narcotics. When an officer stopped the duo Ian Simmons and Joshua Reinhardt, both 34 years old for speeding at a mere 95mph, he easily spotted two bags…
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Trump Says Weed Makes You Dumb, Leaked Audio Reveals
WASHINGTON President Trump said smoking weed makes people lose IQ points and get into accidents. And he’s unsure whether the wave of marijuana legalization sweeping the country is a good thing or a bad thing, according to the leaked recording of a private …
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