Lead photo via Flickr user Chris As legal weed spreads across the country like, well, a weed, it can sometimes feel like America’s war on drugs is fading. With pot shops across California, Colorado, Massachusetts, and more, it would seem like cops …
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Over 40% of Canna-Businesses Are Planning to Expand Into New Markets, According to Survey – News
Lead image via Wikimedia Creative Commons The cannabis industry is one of the fastest-growing new markets in the country, and while hundreds of start-ups scramble to get in on the green rush, many existing canna-businesses are also looking to expand …
Read More »California Releases a Comprehensive Checklist for Cannabis Growers Ahead of Licensing – News
With summer already a distant memory and winter quickly approaching, California’s cannabis growers are preparing for a monumental shift. After more than two decades under Proposition 215’s loosely regulated medical program, recreational legalization is bringing a new set of rules …
Read More »Melissa Etheridge Arrested For Cannabis Possession Crossing the Canadian Border – News
Even rock stars aren’t safe from the long arm of the law. A new report has recently surfaced from a North Dakota customs stop late this summer, with TMZ revealing that folk-rock superstar Melissa Etheridge was arrested for marijuana possession. …
Read More »Cannabis Industry Hit Hard by California Wildfires
As wildfires rage across the state of California, it has become devastatingly clear who is in command. “This is an example of nature in control, and we are doing what we can, but we’re not being that effective at stopping the …
Read More »Marijuana Crop Is Burning in the California Wildfires
Fatal fires that have consumed nearly 200,000 acres in Northern California, devastating the region’s vineyards particularly in Napa and Sonoma Counties, are also taking a toll on a fledgling industry just months before its debut: recreational marijuana. Many of the …
Read More »Where in the US is Marijuana Legal?
The United States has an interesting relationship with cannabis. Its citizens have repeatedly expressed a desire for more research and access to the plant. On the federal level, those outcries have fallen largely on the tone-deaf ears of national policymakers.
Northern California’s Cannabis Community Is Coming Together in the Face of Fire Devastation – News
The disastrous wildfires spreading through Northern California’s Sonoma, Napa and Mendocino counties are still burning, with unpredictable winds pushing the blazes past the reach of the first responders trying to contain it. Even with smoke still billowing across the sky, …
Read More »Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin Will Veto Any Legislative Attempt to Legalize Recreational Marijuana – News
With California, Massachusetts and Maine debuting recreational marijuana markets next year, it may seem like legal weed is everywhere. But beyond the country’s progressive coastal hubs, huge swaths of America are still being thrown in jail for cannabis crimes, with …
Read More »Oregon and California Flames Continue to Threaten Outdoor Cannabis Crops
By September’s end, Oregon and California will have experienced more than 6,614 fires in 2017, burning 274,936 collective acres. And that’s only this year’s blazes through Oct. 1. In 2016, Oregon lost 186,317 acres to wildfires, its lowest yearly total …
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