CALIFORNIA: The bankrupt California city of San Bernardino has a new idea for raising revenue – legalize medical marijuana, and tax the pot. Ironically, the plan was spurred … Read the full article...
Business
Bankrupt California City Eyes Marijuana For Revenue
Tacoma’s First Retail Marijuana Store Will Open Friday In Nalley Valley
WASHINGTON: Tacoma, this bud’s for you. Finally. City of Destiny marijuana smokers who have been patiently waiting for retail pot sales in their own hometown may now … Read the full article...
Here’s What It’s Like Being A Professional Weed Baker In Colorado
COLORADO: Aside from the 50 pounds of weed on the counter, the superfood-green butter, and the whole place being enveloped in a ganja bouquet, this bakery is really just like … Read the full article...
Legal
State On Friday Considers New Look For Edible Pot
Vast Majority Of All Seattle Pot Tickets Written By Same Officer
Cuomo Wants Health Department To Speed Up Medical Marijuana Availability For Children With Epilepsy
Here’s What It’s Like Being A Professional Weed Baker In Colorado
Study: Arrests For Marijuana Offenses Increasing In Many States
Politics
Congressional CBD-Only Bill Raises Both Hope And Significant Concerns
Bankrupt California City Eyes Marijuana For Revenue
Marijuana Advocate Marc Emery Vows ‘Political Revenge’ Against Tories
Florida Ganjapreneurs Line Up To Sell Weed To Granny
Senators Seek Uniform Guidelines On Recreational Pot
Hemp
Hemp Could Be Breakthrough Crop In Southern Alberta
CANADA: Hemp could be positioned as a breakthrough crop for southern Alberta. That’s the hope of a Manitoba company looking for more of the plant’s seed to aid in the production of a line of health-food products. Last week, Manitoba Harvest officials visited southern Alberta to meet with growers … Read the full article...
California Hemp Gets Rolling
CALIFORNIA: Green, twenty-foot-tall fields of research hemp might be waving in the Davis breeze by the next year in a startling breakthrough for California hemp advocates who have been working for decades to grow the plant. The California Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2013 combined with the 2014 … Read the full article...
Hemp Crop Takes Root In Kentucky
KENTUCKY: A month after the seeds for Kentucky's first legal hemp crop were released to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, hundreds of leafy plants are growing in research fields across Kentucky. After initial fears that government holdups on delivering the seed would limit growers' ability … Read the full article...
Now Appearing: Hemp, For First Time In Decades
COLORADO: Proponents of industrial hemp say it’s one of the most misunderstood plants in the world. It’s related to its far more controversial cousin, marijuana, but lacks the THC that gives marijuana its psychedelic properties. The first federal law mentioning hemp came in 1937. Congress … Read the full article...
Uncertainty Dominates New Legal Hemp Market
COLORADO: Marijuana's square cousin, industrial hemp, has come out of the black market and is now legal for farmers to cultivate, opening up a lucrative new market. That was the idea, anyway. Would-be hemp farmers are having mixed success navigating red tape on everything from seed acquisition to … Read the full article...
Massie Eats Hemp, Says It’s ‘Rope, Not Dope’
KENTUCKY: The effort to legalize industrial hemp has turned the national spotlight on Kentucky. In the past month, U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Garrison, received rock star treatment with a write-up in Rolling Stone and eating a hemp seed candy bar on Fox Business Network show 'The Independents' … Read the full article...
Lifestyle
Homeowner Associations Grapple With Legalized Marijuana
Snoop Dogg Says He Smoked Marijuana In The White House — Without Obama
Officially history: First Marijuana Bought In Seattle Donated To MOHAI
“Where’s The Pot Store?” Legal Weed On Sale In Southwest Washington
Cannabis Mom: 8 Things You’re Getting Wrong About Parents Who Use Pot
Events
Seattle’s Cannabis City Grand Re-Opening July 25th
WASHINGTON: Cannabis City would like to invite you to join us for our grand re-opening, Friday, July 25th. We have received more product and are eager to once again supply customers with quality cannabis. We are asking for your help to spread the word with your friends and family to come down and participate in our second grand "re-opening." We … Read the full article...