Watering plants, trimming flowers, concocting healing ointments — it’s all in a day’s work for the Sisters of the Valley.
Cannabis Plant at Sisters of the Valley.
We know that cannabis is a female plant and perhaps this is the reason women seem to form an inexplicably deep bond with her. The legalization movement has empowered countless female entrepreneurs — women hold 36% of executive positions in the cannabis industry compared to the U.S.
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Robot Security Guards Are the Latest Hi-Tech Addition to the Legal Weed World
As the cannabis industry turns from black market sales to legalized big business, technological improvements are coming at breakneck speeds. Whether that takes the form of more sophisticated extraction methods, automated cultivation methods or delivery by drone, legalization means weed is finally making its way into the 21st century.
For Canndescent, a high-grade bud producer in Desert Springs, California, the push towards “high tech” means robotic security guards patrolling their crops after dark.
“At night guards sleep, they play video games and spend time on social media.
California Proposes New Regulations to Lay Out Rules for Medical Marijuana Testing
Despite having legalized medical marijuana twenty years ago, California has left its MMJ industry largely unregulated. That is all set to change, as the California Bureau of Marijuana Control has released draft versions of regulations that will tightly regulate the industry starting next year. This week, the bureau released a series of draft regulations that will govern how medical marijuana providers must test their products.
The 46-page draft regulations mandate that all medical cannabis sold in the state must be independently lab tested starting next year.
California DA Ordered to Return Money Seized From Medical Marijuana Entrepreneur
Last week, a California judge ordered a district attorney to return over $100,000 seized from a medical marijuana entrepreneur and his family last year. In January of 2016, law enforcement raided Med-West Distribution, a San Diego company that supplied several dispensaries with cannabis oils, edibles, creams, and other products. Agents seized the company's inventory, business records, almost $325,000 in cash, and arrested two employees, who were not charged with any crime.
Shortly thereafter, the District Attorney's Office froze the bank accounts of the business owner, James Slatic, as well as those of his family.
California Rep. Rohrabacher Is Willing to Take Medical Marijuana Fight to the Supreme Court
California Representative Dana Rohrabacher has been fighting for medical marijuana in Congress for years now, and is willing to take the fight all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.
“Marijuana laws in this country have violated every basic principle this country stands for over the last 75 years. It’s time to stop,” Congressman Rohrabacher said at a recent cannabis talk.
Lobbyists in Maine Are Spending Big Bucks to Influence Recreational Cannabis Regulations
Last year, a total of four states voted to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. Although most of the attention has been focused on California, Massachusetts, and to some extent, Nevada, the small northeastern state of Maine is in the midst of constructing a lucrative cannabis market of their own.
While lawmakers are reluctant to become the first state in the country to allow social marijuana clubs, this hasn’t stopped lobbyists from using big bucks to help garner more influence over regulations.
Inside the 2017 High Times SoCal Cannabis Cup
It is 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 22. I had flown into San Diego from Detroit the night before after finally getting my medical marijuana certification in Michigan, on 4/20. I’m here with two friends. We’re the three amigos: the Todd Man, aka Todd Durban, aka T_dOG (cannabis artist-at-large); Master G, my old friend and chronic sage, and Big Ben, a traveling nurse from Philly via Thailand. We stow our bags in the trunk of our jet black Prius and prepare to drive to San Bernardino for the 2017 High Times SoCal Cannabis Cup.
Black Market Cannabis Grows are Killing Northern California Wildlife
As Northern California’s cannabis growers prepare to shift their businesses to fit new medical regulations and expand to supply upcoming recreational sales, protecting the local environment has become increasingly important. So while some legal cultivators are actively getting together to discuss ways to improve water and soil sustainability, NorCal is still full of backwoods, illegal grow ops that aren’t as careful in their attempt to cash in on the green rush.
Read More »The Most Popular Marijuana Strains of April 2017
With an average listed price of $35, the ever-popular Sativa strain Blue Dream maintained its spot atop the list of April’s most popular marijuana strains. In fact, last month’s consumer preferences and strain availability appear to be holding relatively steady with the top six places unchanged between March and April.
As an experienced floral designer — you’ve probably seen her work behind a pregnant Beyonce — and budtender at The High Church, Sarah Lineberger sees a lot of popular flower. We asked Sarah how North America’s list compares with what she’s seeing in Rainbow, California.
Los Angeles County Wants to Shut Down Pot Shops and Start Fresh Once New Regulations Take Effect
California has had legal medical marijuana for over 20 years now, but in those two decades the state has neglected to add any concrete regulations to the industry - until now. With with brand new medical marijuana regulations and recreational sales both jumping off in 2018, change is finally coming to weed’s wild west. In Los Angeles County, though, the new regulations are leading local officials to push for a shutdown of the county’s currently operating unregulated pot shops.
According to L.A. Weekly, dispensaries have been banned in the unincorporated areas of L.A.