Marijuana legalization will likely play a significant role in New York’s gubernatorial election come Nov. 6, 2018. Just 24-hours after New York’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Joel Giambra proposed legalizing adult-use marijuana to help fix the state’s underfunded transportation system on …
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The Future of Weed in Costa Rica
2017 was a fantastic year for international cannabis reform with countries in South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and elsewhere ending the prohibition of marijuana in a variety of ways. But one of the regions that has been slow to adopt …
Read More »Pennsylvania Regulators Remove Medical Marijuana Patient Registry from Police Database – News
The state’s medical cannabis law requires that all patients register with the state, and regulators initially decided to make this information available on JNET, a police database containing criminal records and facial recognition information. This database is currently visible to …
Read More »Bipartisan Bill Offers Protections for States with Legal Cannabis
The bill would protect compliant businesses owners in legal states from (among other things) efforts to “detain, prosecute, sentence, or initiate civil proceedings against an individual, business, or property that is involved in the cultivation, distribution, possession, dispensation, or the …
Read More »New Study Adds to Evidence That Cannabis Legalization Reduces Violent Crime – News
Photo via Wikipedia A new research study reports that violent crime has been decreasing significantly in canna-legal states that border Mexico, adding to a growing pool of evidence connecting legal cannabis with crime reduction. 12521/full” target=” blank”> recently published in …
Read More »The Firefly 2 Vaporizer is Clearly From the Future
While California just legalized weed and everyone is still celebrating their newly official freedom, it’s important to remember that some people had to spend their holidays at their parent’s house on the east coast where they still use the term …
Read More »The End of Cannabis Tolerance in Spain
After decades of relative tolerance towards Cannabis in Spain, the Constitutional Court decides that cannabis clubs are criminal. Years of government criminalizing strategy pay off. The national parliamentary debate can no longer be postponed. In Spain, the Constitutional Court has …
Read More »Vermont Is One Step Away from Legalizing Recreational Cannabis – News
Photo via aviva gabriel As America’s recreational cannabis industry continues to reconcile and react to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to revoke the Cole Memo and end federal protections for state-sanctioned legal weed, lawmakers in Vermont are carrying on with …
Read More »Vermont Legislature Passes Bill to Legalize Recreational Cannabis – News
Photo via Erika Mitchell This week, the Vermont Senate passed a bill to legalize the possession of marijuana for recreational use, bringing legalization one step closer to reality. The state House passed the bill last week, and the only remaining …
Read More »New Jersey Introduces Cannabis Legalization Legislation Just Before Gubernatorial Turnover – News
Chris Christie’s contentious tenure as Governor of New Jersey is coming to a close. After eight years comprised of bridge-gate, beach-gate, and negligence in the face of a deadly opioid epidemic, Christie will turn over the keys to the Garden …
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