Uncle Sam gave marijuana lovers more reason to celebrate this past week This will make it easier for cannabis companies to do business in states where sales are legal.
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Read moreThis Year Marks 50 years of 420
Uncategorized April 17, 2021
This year marks 50 years of the cannabis culture phenomenon, 420. 420 is a term for all things weed. It is celebrated daily at 4:20 (am or pm) by consuming cannabis, but the largest celebrations come on every year April 20th, 4/20.
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Read moreNew York Legalizes Recreational Marijuana
Uncategorized April 4, 2021
Yes, it is true. New Yorker’s can now possess up to 3 ounces of marijuana even though sale of recreational-use marijuana won’t be legal for another estimated 18 months, while the State works on regulations. But it goes much further…
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Read moreBiden Urged to Expunge Records of Cannabis Offenders
Uncategorized February 26, 2021
NORML, businesspeople and activists teamed up to urge Biden to make good on his campaign promise to expunge the criminal records of individuals who have been convicted of non-violent marijuana charges.
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Read moreCannabis May Reduce Alcohol Consumption
Uncategorized February 18, 2021
There was an interesting study about cannabis and alcohol consumption recently conducted by a team out of the University of Colorado at Boulder. In their findings, they concluded that cannabis consumption may decrease alcohol intake by individuals being treated for alcohol abuse. The relationship between alcohol use in conjunction with cannabis is one that has […]
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Read moreCannabis can Lead to Decrease in Opioid Consumption
Uncategorized February 7, 2021
Can cannabis implementation with chronic pain patients can lead to an overall better quality of life and decrease opioid consumption?
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Read moreStudents with prior drug convictions are no longer excluded from obtaining federal student aid under a recently approved congressional appropriation package. Although the main goal of this bill is to keep the government appropriately funded, with these unprecedented times we are facing because of COVID19, it creates challenges. Provisions strike a 1998 law, subsection of […]
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Read moreTilray-Aphria Merger Spawns Big Cannabis
CBDIndustryUncategorized January 2, 2021
In the recent past, buying weed meant meeting a friend of a friend in the back-parking lot of a supermarket only to be left waiting for hours, hoping your herbs would arrive. But now things are changing with the option to buy publicly traded, NASDAQ stock of a multi-billion-dollar Canadian pot conglomerate. Tilray and Aphria, […]
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Read moreUN Loosens International Cannabis Classification
CBDUncategorized December 20, 2020
2020 has been landmark year in cannabis regulation. Recently, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (which serves as the United Nations central drug policy making body) voted to remove cannabis from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. Coming to this groundbreaking conclusion has the CND now recognizing the therapeutic and medical potential of cannabis.
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