A group of patients who regularly use medical marijuana showed little difference in driving performance after inhaling cannabis, according to the findings of a Canadian study released recently. Results of the study by researchers from the University of Toronto, Health Canada, and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health... Read more
Last summer, Post Malone founded the lifestyle brand Shaboink and rolled out his line of hemp-derived CBD pre-rolls with Sherbinskis, which were teased at the Hall of Flowers in Santa Rosa, California. But the gravity of recent events shifted the young rapper-turned-popstar’s priorities to address a new call to... Read more
Medical researchers in Israel are planning to study the potential for cannabis to be used as a treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The investigators at the Center for Cannabis Research at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa have been studying the effect of cannabis... Read more
Some may think legal cannabis and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are less at odds than the DEA was with the illicit market, but that may not be so. A national, cannabis trade group is publicly asking the DEA to keep out of medical cannabis research. They think... Read more
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a coronavirus stimulus and relief bill on Tuesday that includes provisions allowing legal cannabis businesses access to banking services, although the measure does not grant marijuana-related companies eligibility for federal small business loans. The bill, known as the Health and Economic... Read more
Today, Israel announced its approval for exports of medical cannabis, meaning that sales outside of the country can now commence. The nation expects to earn millions in revenue from this move. “This is a significant step for exporters and the Israeli industry, which will enable both expansion of export... Read more
Most job applicants seeking work in New York City won’t have to fret over a drug test for marijuana, thanks to a new law that took effect last weekend. The new measure “bans companies from requiring pre-employment testing for marijuana, with exceptions for applicants for police, child-care, commercial driving... Read more
The marijuana business has been booming in Michigan during the coronavirus pandemic. The Detroit News reported that “weekly sales of recreational marijuana in Michigan from March 9 onward have risen significantly.” Since that day in March until this past Sunday, marijuana retailers in the state generated about $54.6 million... Read more
