California

One Native American tribe outside of San Diego, California, is using legal weed to dig themselves out of the hole dug by casino dreams. 

According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel is in the process of turning the massive parking lot of the now defunct Santa Ysabel Resort and Casino into a series of state of the art cannabis production facilities.

The tribe found out that the casino business wasn’t as easy as it looked when they opened the resort in 2007, and by the time the doors were shut for good in 2014

A new set of proposed rules to regulate California's medical marijuana market offers opportunities to both big and small businesses and investors, industry insiders say. Last week, state regulators released a set of draft regulations governing the sales, use, cultivation, testing, and distribution of medical cannabis.

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Cannabis cultivators in Northern California are in the midst of a giant shift. Recreational regulations are being debated in the state house, a new set of medical marijuana regulations is set to go into effect at the end of the year, and the state’s growers are trying to adapt.

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A bipartisan group of House Democrats and Republicans recently hashed out a $1 trillion budget for government spending, but none of which will be used to crack down on legal pot.
A new government funding bill will block the Department of Justice from using federal funds to prosecute law-abiding medical marijuana companies operating in legal states, reports the Orange County Register.
The budget’s full text of the marijuana provision is as follows:
None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to any of the States

On many mornings, with a few puffs of pot - and one cannabis-laced chocolate-covered blueberry in the afternoon - Richelle has been able to stop the severe nausea that has accompanied her third pregnancy.

The regimen not only ended the constant vomiting, but the San Jose mother can now finally eat an entire cheeseburger - and keep it down.
"The medical field frowns on pregnant women using marijuana," said the 27-year-old bookkeeper, who lost 30 pounds early on in her pregnancy because of her condition, called hyperemesis gravidarum, which also causes dehydration.
"But I possibly would not have

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has written the proposed regulations to establish cannabis cultivation licensing and a track-and-trace system.  This was directed by the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act and the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, and is collectively referred to as CalCannabis Cultivation Licensing.Just last week, CDFA released the proposed regulations that will define the cannabis cultivation licensing process.

Released last Thursday for public scrutiny and in search of helpful suggestions, the California Department of Food and Agriculture have finally published their proposed regulations for the state’s medicinal cannabis cultivation and licensing program.
The official start of the 45-day state-mandated public comment period, which is open to California’s cultivators as well as the general public, began on April 28.

California is having a hard time figuring out regulations for their newly legal recreational cannabis industry. Governor Jerry Brown and his administration have proposed legislation that would merge the state’s two decade old medical industry with the new recreational laws, but Brown’s plan is facing criticism from opponents who say it gives too much power to big business cannabis capitalists.

This past Thursday was 420, and while I was still technically dead from Coachella weekend, the Observatory’s lineup was not to be missed.