(Photo of recreational zipliner via Wikimedia Commons) An Arizona drug runner was caught using a popular adventure tourism activity to smuggle pot across the border. The 18-year-old trafficker was arrested by Border Patrol agents after attempting to use a zip …
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San Francisco Recreational Sales Could Fire Up First Week of New Year
Recreational marijuana sales in the Bay Area may not begin on New Year’s Day as originally planned, but if San Francisco’s Mayor Ed Lee signs legislation passed Tuesday night by the board of supervisors, cannabis sales could begin as early …
Read More »Uncovering how dabbing cannabis can impair driving ability
The van that the research team uses to conduct tests on participants. Credit: Colorado State University Researchers studying how an intense cannabis consumption method could impair driving ability have turned to a simple device that many people have lying around …
Read More »Rick Steves testifies to Illinois lawmakers in favor of legalizing marijuana
Rick Steves is taking some time out from providing travel tips to tell Illinois lawmakers why pot should be legal. The writer and television host spoke Tuesday at a hearing called by the state’s legislators to advocate for marijuana legalization, …
Read More »San Francisco pushes forward with legal marijuana sales
This Oct. 19, 2009 file photo shows a neon sign at the entrance to the San Francisco Medical Cannabis Clinic in San Francisco. San Francisco supervisors approved regulations for the sale of recreational marijuana following weeks of emotional debate over …
Read More »Bill to Legalize Marijuana in India Headed to Parliament
A private member’s bill to legalize marijuana in India will be introduced to Parliament during the winter session this year, after clearing the legislative branch of government on Nov. 1. MP Dharamvira Gandhi, the politician behind the bill, is a …
Read More »Canada proposes health warnings, child-proof packs for legal pot sales
OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Canadian government proposed on Tuesday mandatory health warnings and child-proof packaging as well as a licensing regime for all cannabis products in legislation ahead of the July 2018 legalization of recreational marijuana. FILE PHOTO: Various-sized joints …
Read More »New Senate Bill Could End the Ban on Legal Cannabis Sales in Washington D.C. – News
Image via MikeyLPT A new bill introduced in the U.S. Senate this week would allow Washington D.C. to finally take steps to begin recreational cannabis sales, Marijuana Moment reports. Cannabis use has been in a legal grey area since the …
Read More »Michigan Cannabis Advocates Will Deliver Petition for Recreational Legalization Today – News
It’s looking more and more likely that the residents of Michigan will be able to vote on whether or not to legalize recreational cannabis use in their state next year, thanks to the efforts of the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana …
Read More »Bill to make medical marijuana available in Malta proposed
Malta’s government has proposed allowing all doctors in the country to prescribe medical marijuana. The government published draft legislation on Monday that would loosen an existing regulation with so many restrictions that not a single Maltese had ever been treated …
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