WASHINGTON: The amount of legal pot sold in our state continues to increase each month since Washington's first retail stores opened last summer. The Washington State … Read the full article...
Business
Despite Increasing Sales, Legal Pot Businesses Warn Of Impending Disaster If Changes Not Made
Medical Marijuana Business Aims To Help Would-Be Patients Get Their Pot
CANADA: A new business that’s coming to Ottawa this spring is offering to help people get access to medical marijuana. But National Access Cannabis’s arrival in the capital … Read the full article...
With Marijuana Legalization, Green Rush Is On In D.C.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: As Thursday dawns on the nation’s capital, marijuana will be a legal intoxicant, though Washington will not be Amsterdam, or even Denver. There will be … Read the full article...
Legal
CBD Oil Now Legal In 12 States
Despite Increasing Sales, Legal Pot Businesses Warn Of Impending Disaster If Changes Not Made
D.C.’s ‘Martha Stewart Of Marijuana’ Plants His First Seeds
Recreational Marijuana Now Legal In D.C.
California Marijuana Legalization Supporters Worry Video From Smokers Promising Hash Bars Will Hurt Campaign
Politics
Portland Mayor Charlie Hales Requests $440,000 For Marijuana Permitting Program
D.C.’s ‘Martha Stewart Of Marijuana’ Plants His First Seeds
California Marijuana Legalization Supporters Worry Video From Smokers Promising Hash Bars Will Hurt Campaign
Multiple DUII Bills Introduced In Oregon, Aimed At Marijuana Drivers
With Marijuana Legalization, Green Rush Is On In D.C.
Hemp
Medical Pot Growers Fear Hemp Will Ruin Their Crop
OREGON: Southern Oregon farmers growing marijuana for medicine don't want fields of pot's prosaic cousin, industrial hemp, growing nearby.They say cross-pollination could turn their high-grade buds into throwback, seedy marijuana, something out of the 1960s that takes forever to get a user … Read the full article...
New Mexico Bill On Hemp Production Passes
NEW MEXICO: A bill to legalize marijuana previously went down in flames, but a separate measure for commercial use of hemp in New Mexico breezed through its first legislative test Tuesday. The Senate Conservation Committee voted 9-0 to advance the Industrial Hemp Farming Act. Committee members … Read the full article...
State’s First Industrial Hemp License Goes To A Southern Oregon Man
OREGON: A man who was issued the first state permit to grow industrial hemp said he and a nonprofit group of growers and activists hope to plant a 25-acre field in Southwest Oregon this spring. Edgar Winters, of Eagle Point, Ore., who describes himself as director of the Oregon Agriculture Food … Read the full article...
Senate Passes Bill Allowing Growing Industrial Hemp
WASHINGTON: Industrial hemp would be allowed to be grown in Washington state under a measure passed by the Senate. Senate Bill 5012 received unanimous support Wednesday in the Senate and now heads to the House for consideration. The measure authorizes the growing of industrial hemp as an … Read the full article...
Bill To Legalize Hemp Farming, Effectively Nullify Federal Ban Passes Washington State Senate 49-0
WASHINGTON: By a unanimous 49-0 vote this week, the Washington state Senate approved a bill that would authorize the farming, production, and sale of industrial hemp in the state, effectively nullifying the federal prohibition on the same once put into effect. Senate Bill 5012 (SB5012) … Read the full article...
GENERAL ASSEMBLY: House Votes To Allow Growing Of Industrial Hemp
VIRGINIA: The House of Delegates on Tuesday passed legislation that would allow industrial hemp to be grown in Virginia. The measure now moves to the state Senate, where a similar proposal is pending. Delegate Joseph R. Yost, R-Giles, the measure’s sponsor, on Monday had touted the economic … Read the full article...
Lifestyle
D.C.’s ‘Martha Stewart Of Marijuana’ Plants His First Seeds
MARIJUANA: Health Department’s TV Ads Take Dr. Seuss Approach To Pot
Marijuana Is Now Legal In Alaska, The 3rd U.S. State To OK Pot
Holland’s New Marijuana Laws Are Changing Old Amsterdam
Medical Marijuana May Soon Get Kosher Stamp Of Approval
Events
Want To Make A Difference? Get To D.C. In May
by Keith Stroup NORML will be holding its 2015 Legislative Fly-In in Washington, DC, on May 21 and 22, to lobby Congress on a number of pieces of pending legislation of interest to marijuana users. Please hold those dates and make plans now to join us this year. Registration for the Fly-In, along with the agenda for the two-days, is now … Read the full article...