Published: Jul 28, 2017, 8:21 am • Updated: Jul 28, 2017, 9:35 am By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian Eighteen years ago, television celebrity Montel Williams couldn’t have imagined he’d one day be standing in a sleek Santa Ana dispensary …
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Ontario Government Sends Out Legalization Survey
Whether you agree with how legalization in Canada is taking shape or not, the one thing that can be agreed upon is that the government has asked for input from its people throughout the historic journey. Citizens of the Great …
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After Nevada voted to legalize recreational cannabis back in November, lawmakers moved quickly to draft regulations and get retail sales up and running by July 1st. Although the proposed start date was jeopardized over a lawsuit by local alcohol distributors, …
Read More »Alaska Considers Three Proposals to Legalize Onsite Consumption in Cannabis Retail Stores – News
The Alaska Marijuana Control Board is set to consider three different proposals that would allow individuals to consume cannabis products in retail stores. Local canna-business leaders have lobbied for onsite consumption, arguing that creating a legal area for public consumption …
Read More »Marijuana legalization raises the need for more research
Credit: Elena Zhukova At a Paul McCartney concert at San Francisco’s AT&T Park in 2010, Matthew Springer, PhD, wasn’t shocked to be surrounded by a haze of marijuana smoke. He was, however, amazed that the audience tolerated it without complaint. …
Read More »Cannabis Liberation Day 2017 is here!
Every single year, we are proud and excited to announce Cannabis Liberation Day, also known as “Cannabis Bevrijdingsdag” in its birth place: the Netherlands. For the 2017 edition of this cannabis consumer-focused event, we are counting on you. Read on …
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There’s nothing like spending a warm summer day getting lit with a tulip. If you haven’t met before, let me introduce you to the tulip joint. An Amsterdam-approved smoking method that packs a serious punch, tulip joints deliver smooth, thick clouds …
Read More »Schapelle Corby, Drug Trafficker and Australian Obsession, Returns Home
SYDNEY, Australia — Schapelle Corby left Australia for Bali in 2004 as a beach girl, another Gold Coast surfer who said she was just seeking a vacation and some waves.On Sunday morning she finally returned home, but as a convicted drug trafficker — and one of Australia’s most well-known, if not favorite, criminals.A mob of reporters and television cameras greeted her arrival in Brisbane just after 5 a.m.
Read More »Growing Number of Baby Boomers Are Using Marijuana
The first time Susan smoked pot, she was 16. It was the fall of 1965, and she was hanging out in the lobby of the newly built Inn on the Park, where singer/songwriter Bob Dylan was holed up while in town for a concert at Massey Hall.
“You know, the one where he went electric, which pissed a lot of people off?” Susan says. “So my girlfriend and I were downstairs, and Bob Dylan comes down and brings us a joint.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer Becomes First Elected Official to Do AMA with Reddit’s Cannabis Community
If you’re into talking about weed online - and let’s face it, you are - you’ve most likely clicked your way over to Reddit’s cannabis subsection /r/trees to check out home-grows from around the world or chat with like-minded stoners. You definitely aren’t alone, and as part of yesterday’s 4/20 celebration, we teamed up with /r/trees and Congressional Cannabis Caucus member and just flat out chill Oregon legislator Earl Blumenauer for a special holiday edition of “Ask Me Anything.”
Members of Congress are now doing AMAs on the subreddit devoted to marijuana use, truly America is already great.