“I’m thrilled,” said Melnick. “Seeing the House vote unanimously for a bill you believe in is an amazing feeling. Maine’s medical cannabis program has always been unique and it deserves to be protected. These bills create the structure that Maine’s …
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A Friend With Weed is a Friend Indeed. Have a Happy (and Legal) Give Something Away Day.
Happy Give Something Away Day, everyone! And yes, this is a real holiday. Originally submitted to the National Day Calendar by Linda Eaton Hall-Fulcher as an innocent day of kindness and paying it forward, Give Something Away Day has become …
Read More »Want to Make Marijuana Access Legal and Safe? Heed NORML’s Call and Contact Congress.
As the the debate over the bounds of freedom of speech on social media and the “civility” in confronting Trump administration officials dining in public continues to grow, its easy to forget one our most civil, powerful and, quite frankly, …
Read More »Hawaii Marijuana Veto Isn’t a Total Disappointment; Michigan Expands Medical Conditions List
Hawaii’s governor announced some noteworthy improvements — and one major disappointment — for the state’s medical marijuana program, Michigan cultivates new conditions for prospective patients, and New York regulators rush to replace opioids with medicinal cannabis. And while the US …
Read More »California Releases Regulations for Marijuana Industry
By, Valli Herman The proposed rules and regulations that will govern the California cannabis industry were released Friday, July 13, 2018, marking the first step toward establishing permanent regulations for the burgeoning industry. The three state agencies that oversee the …
Read More »What’s the Best Way to Ingest CBD?
By, Suzannah Weiss CBD is becoming increasingly popular, with shops selling CBD oil, edibles, and vape juice in most cities where it’s legal. Some companies even sell CBD capsules. But if you’re looking to take advantage of CBD’s stress-reducing, sleep-enhancing, …
Read More »New York Assessment Puts Marijuana Legalization in Favorable Light
By Valli Herman Concluding that good outcomes are more likely than bad ones, the state of New York took an important step toward creating a legal and regulated adult-use marijuana market, potentially the country’s largest. New York Commissioner of Health …
Read More »Marijuana as Sex Lubricant Might Not Necessarily Light Your Fire
By, Suzannah Weiss Plenty of people swear they experience superlative sex while stoned, with 70 percent of smokers in a 2017 study published in Elsevier’s journal Pharmacological Research claiming the drug provided “enhancement in pleasure and satisfaction.” So, it was …
Read More »Jefferson University offers medical marijuana grad programs
Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia will be offering graduate-level certificate programs in medical marijuana. Courses start this fall for two graduate certificate programs in cannabis medicine and cannabinoid pharmacology at the school’s Lambert Center for the Study of Medicinal Cannabis …
Read More »Report from New York Health Department Supports Cannabis Legalization
“Numerous NYS agencies and subject matter experts in the fields of public health, mental health, substance use, public safety, transportation, and economics worked in developing this assessment,” reads the 75-page document, “No insurmountable obstacles to regulation of marijuana were raised.” …
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