After receiving final approval from state regulators on Thursday, Boston’s first recreational cannabis shop will open its doors to customers next week. The Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission’s “commence operations” notice issued to Pure Oasis in the Grove Hall community of Dorchester will allow the retailer to open on Monday... Read more
Mexico City’s #Plantón420 has grown in size over the last week, probably because of all the cannabis-related political drama. Despite his party’s efforts to the contrary, President Andres Manuel López Obrador announced that recreational cannabis would not be legalized. But the day before our tardeada at the... Read more
Cuando nos preocupábamos por el aumento de la Inteligencia Artificial, la mayoría de nosotros asumimos que el golpe de la tecnología entrante sería un poco más emocionante que los robots que mienten sobre el cannabis en Twitter. Las fuentes dudosas con Wi-Fi también han hecho lo mismo para contaminar... Read more
The United States may be embracing legalization, but the country’s military and veterans communities are not. A memo issued by Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie this week made that abundantly clear. “There is no legitimate medical explanation for a marijuana positive test result, other than a verified prescription of... Read more
Major League Baseball unveiled a groundbreaking policy late last year, removing marijuana from its list of banned substances in favor of stricter testing on more dangerous drugs like opioids. But if players thought it was suddenly safe to get high after a grueling, extra innings game, the league office... Read more
The Buckeye State is getting closer to becoming a hemp state. As of noon on Tuesday, Ohio’s Department of Agriculture began accepting applications for licenses from would-be growers and processors to cultivate hemp during this year’s growing season. Advertisement The application window follows last year’s legislation passed by Ohio... Read more
A medical marijuana bill that was passed last month by the Kentucky House of Representatives faces an uphill climb to approval in the state Senate. The measure, House Bill 136, was passed by representatives in February by a vote of 65 to 30. But the bill now faces consideration... Read more
A tentative ceasefire between North Dakota’s previously anti-hemp governor and its lawmakers has been put into peril by two widely differing estimates on what it will take to legalize the plant in the state. On Tuesday, Governor Kristi Noem presented a plan to a legislative committee to put $3.5... Read more
Concerns over the continuing global outbreak of coronavirus have led activists seeking to decriminalize magic mushrooms in Washington, D.C. to ask for permission to circulate their initiative petition online. Officials with the city’s Board of Elections decided last month that the proposal from the group Decriminalize Nature Washington, D.C.... Read more
Although just two years old, Pennsylvania’s medical cannabis market is booming. The program serves around 160,000 patients, and according to numerous statewide media accounts, there are persistent product shortages, especially for dry leaf cannabis. One of the reasons for the boom was the addition, last July, of anxiety disorders... Read more
