With legalization spreading across the country, prices of the once illicit plant are expectedly dropping. But while stoners in Colorado and Oregon are routinely paying as little as $25 for every eighth of an ounce and single digit dollar arounts …
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More Summer Events and Dispensary Stops: Walking with Redhat Ralph
More summer events and dispensary stops in Week 16 with RedHat Ralph…. This week includes serving Root Beer at the Oregon Brewers Festival, the Canna Closet Oregon launch, and The Summer Fair 2. Here is how I walked 22.6 miles …
Read More »Congress Temporarily Extends Medical Marijuana Protections – News
As part of a rush to provide $15.3 billion of disaster relief for areas on the verge of ruins by recent hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Congress has extended the medical marijuana protections known as the Roharabacher-Farr amendment through the beginning …
Read More »Debt deal extends Rohrabacher-Blumenauer medical marijuana protection
Published: Sep 8, 2017, 3:34 pm • Updated: Sep 8, 2017, 4:13 pm By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff Existing federal protections for medical marijuana states are expected to continue through at least Dec. 8. The $15.3 billion disaster aid …
Read More »A New ACLU Campaign for District Attorney Accountability has Some DA’s Upset
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has typically been supportive of marijuana law reform efforts. After all, there is no denying the way that cannabis prohibition has negatively affected minorities and their families. Well, the ACLU of Oregon launched a …
Read More »Oregon: OLCC Orders Lab Testing on All Marijuana for Pesticides
On Wednesday, the Oregon Health Authority began mandating “every batch” of marijuana, as well as its related products, be tested for harmful pesticides and chemicals. Published by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) in early August, their Recreational Marijuana Program …
Read More »All of Oregon’s Marijuana Will Now Be Tested for Pesticides – News
All of the marijuana batches sold in Oregon must now be tested for pesticides, according to a report from the Oregon Cannabis Connection. Earlier this week, the state’s Health Authority imposed a list of permanent rules on pesticides that now …
Read More »Oregon Governor Rebukes Jeff Sessions’ Scolding of Legal Cannabis – News
Continuing on his crusade to curtail legal weed and reinstate the full force of the war on drugs, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been sending letters to the Governors and Attorney Generals of legal weed states expressing his dismay with the state …
Read More »Oregon gov and police chief say Sessions’ marijuana claims based on flawed, leaked, draft report
Published: Aug 23, 2017, 9:19 am • Updated: Aug 23, 2017, 10:07 am By Polly Washburn, The Cannabist Staff Oregon’s governor and the head of the state police responded Tuesday to a letter from U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in …
Read More »Sessions Craves Crackdown: Attack Opioids, Not Marijuana
Throughout his dogmatic career in politics, Jeff Sessions has compared the influence of marijuana to that of LSD or Heroin, accusing the peaceful herb of cultivating some of America’s biggest problems. Sessions Craves Crackdown: Attack Opioids, Not Marijuana On average, …
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