Your Guide to Cannabis News

Dec 16, 20202 min read

How Cheap Will Cannabis Become In The Future?

This article by Johnny Green was originally published on Cannabis & Tech Today, and appears here with permission. The cost of cannabis...

Dec 15, 20204 min read

Feds move to extend cannabis growing monopoly (Newsletter: December 15, 2020)

TOP THINGS TO KNOW The New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee approved a revised bill to implement legal marijuana sales—with floor votes...

Dec 14, 20202 min read

Marijuana Has Become Maine’s Most Valuable Crop

(AP) — Maine is known for its wild blueberries and potatoes but marijuana has surpassed them to become the state’s most valuable crop....

Dec 11, 20202 min read

NBA Isn't Going to Drug Test Players for Weed Next Year, and May Not Ever Again

Citing the pandemic as a special circumstance, the league said it will extend this year’s policy of no marijuana tests into 2021, but...

Dec 11, 20202 min read

Cannabis review site Weedmaps agrees $1.5 billion deal to go public

(Reuters) - WM Holding Company, a cannabis technology company which operates the online U.S. platform Weedmaps where users find and rate...

Dec 11, 20202 min read

Cannabis review site Weedmaps agrees $1.5 billion deal to go public

WM Holding Company, a cannabis technology company which operates the online U.S. platform Weedmaps where users find and rate marijuana...

Dec 11, 20202 min read

NBA Isn't Going to Drug Test Players for Weed Next Year, and May Not Ever Again

Citing the pandemic as a special circumstance, the league said it will extend this year’s policy of no marijuana tests into 2021, but...

Dec 10, 20205 min read

MS-13 Is Getting Rich From Chemically-Altered Weed That's 'More Addictive Than Cocaine'

The gang says the drug is its biggest seller in Honduras. It's enhanced with unknown chemicals. It’s unclear what chemicals or substances...

Dec 9, 20205 min read

Can Cannabis Interstate Commerce Be A Shortcut To Federal Legalization?

After an initial burst of celebration over last week’s House approval of the MORE Act, landmark legislation that would decriminalize...

Dec 7, 20205 min read

History made: US House of Representatives votes to end federal marijuana prohibition

In a historic vote more than 80 years in the making, the House of Representatives this afternoon approved the MORE Act, a bill that would...

Dec 4, 20204 min read

Congress takes up historic bill to decriminalize cannabis

The proposal would end a federal ban on marijuana and create a pathway to expunge related criminal records. As the cannabis industry...

Nov 29, 20203 min read

Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill Will Get A Congressional Vote Next Week, Leader Announces

A bill to federally legalize marijuana will receive a full floor vote in the U.S. House of Representatives next week, a top Democratic...

Nov 23, 20204 min read

'Longest-serving cannabis offender' to be released early from 90-year prison sentence

Richard DeLisi was sentenced in 1989 for conspiring to traffic more than 100 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. from Jamaica. By Alicia...

Nov 9, 20202 min read

Washington, DC, just decriminalized psychedelic plants. Here’s what happens next

Residents of the nation’s capital just took a step toward more liberal use of hallucinogens, in response to a groundswell of interest in...

Nov 5, 20205 min read

Oregon decriminalizes possession of hard drugs, as four other states legalize recreational marijuana

PORTLAND, Ore. — The epiphany came in 2009, as Hubert Matthews prepared to spend another night on Portland’s streets. For two decades he...

Nov 4, 20203 min read

Mississippi just legalized medical marijuana. Here’s what happens next

Congratulations, Mississippi! Initiative 65 has been approved by voters. Medical marijuana will become legal in Mississippi. Despite...

Nov 3, 20204 min read

Why 2021 Could Be a Big Year for the Cannabis Industry

Federal and state actors plan to revisit the issues of legalization and decriminalization in the new year. by David Jagielski via The...

Nov 3, 20201 min read

Shawn Kemp Reveals He Smoked Weed During NBA Career, Safer Than Pain Pills!

via TMZSports Shawn Kemp admits he smoked marijuana during his days as an NBA superstar ... and flat out says he has zero regrets, 'cause...

Oct 29, 20204 min read

D.C. residents to vote on decriminalization of ‘magic mushrooms’ on November ballot

The D.C. Board of Elections said Wednesday an initiative to decriminalize psychedelic plants, including “magic mushrooms,” will appear on...

Oct 27, 20202 min read

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Recent studies have shown more older adults using cannabis to treat ailments, and it seems they aren’t the only ones. A study presented...