Although Nevada marijuana regulators took action last week to issue recreational marijuana licenses to businesses other than the state’s liquor wholesalers, a judge has put a temporary stop to this plan. According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, Judge James …
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Israel May Start Exporting Medical Marijuana
A government panel in Israel recommended yesterday that the country export its medical cannabis to the legalized world. A joint committee of the Health and Finance ministries recommended allowing exportation based on estimates that doing so could earn Israel as …
Read More »No Arkansas Businesses Have Applied for Medical Marijuana Licenses Yet – News
Arkansas’ Department of Finance and Administration spokesman Scott Hardin announced last week that the state hasn’t received a single application from a business seeking to grow or distribute medical marijuana. The final deadline for these applications, September 18th, is fast …
Read More »Hawaii’s First Medical Marijuana Dispensary Temporarily Closes Due to Testing Backlog – News
It’s been less than a week since Hawaii’s first-ever medical marijuana dispensary opened for business, and already the operation has been forced to temporarily close its doors after selling out of cannabis over the weekend. A report from Maui News …
Read More »Just say no to D.A.R.E. — starting a better conversation about youth drug prevention
Published: Aug 14, 2017, 10:54 am • Updated: Aug 14, 2017, 11:23 am By Andrew Freedman, The Hill Guest Commentary Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently called for the return of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.), the 1980s anti-drug campaign aimed …
Read More »Las Vegas warns weed businesses against promoting public consumption
Published: Aug 14, 2017, 10:23 am • Updated: Aug 14, 2017, 10:24 am By The Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Officials in Las Vegas are warning the recreational marijuana industry against any advertising that can be considered promoting public consumption. …
Read More »Ninth Circuit Judge Rules That Feds Still Can’t Prosecute California Medical Cannabis Growers – News
A federal judge has put a stop to the prosecution of two Northern California cannabis growers, in the first known ruling where the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment has protected state-legal cannabis growers. In 2014, Anthony Pisarski and Sonny Moore pleaded guilty to …
Read More »Recent busts highlight interstate smuggling from legal marijuana states
Published: Aug 14, 2017, 9:18 am • Updated: Aug 14, 2017, 9:18 am By Andrew Selsky, The Associated Press Marijuana grown in Oregon and the handful of other states where pot is legal is being smuggled to other parts of …
Read More »Legal marijuana states try to curb interstate smuggling to fend off feds
Published: Aug 14, 2017, 8:44 am • Updated: Aug 14, 2017, 10:03 am By Andrew Selsky, The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Well before Oregon legalized marijuana, its verdant, wet forests made it an ideal place for growing the drug, …
Read More »US pot states try to curb smuggling, fend off administration
In this July 7, 2016 file photo Jessica Mann, left, gives change to a customer following a recreational marijuana purchase at Cannabis City, in Seattle. Officials in states like Oregon where marijuana is legal are trying to curtail smuggling of …
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