Netflix found an interesting way to promote their new show Disjointed, which will star Kathy Bates as the operator of a California cannabis dispensary. They partnered with a California medical cannabis seller to operate a pop-up shop selling 12 different cannabis strains named and developed based...
Last week the US Senate Appropriations Committee voted to renew the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment when it expires September 30. That amendment, renewed annually since 2014, blocks the US Department of Justice from using federal funds to interfere with the implementation of state medical cannabis laws. The...
Eight months after Massachusetts voters approved legal adult use of cannabis, reluctant Republican Gov. Charlie Barker signed legislation to start a year long phase-in of permitting adults to buy and use cannabis. The expectation is that the first stores will be open by next July. The...
An insightful article a few weeks ago on MassRoots (www.massroots.com) urges readers to "rebrand" cannabis and call it by its proper scientific name: cannabis. The piece goes through the apparently racist history of those who adopted the term "marijuana" as they pushed for criminalization of cannabis...
The New York Hedge Found Roundtable, made up of professional investors who generally focus on "alternative investments," the other day said its members believe investing in cannabis companies is "appealing." The normal alternative investments one thinks of, derivative securities, hedge and private equity funds and...
The President signed a budget bill last Friday that will keep the government funded through the end of September. After signing the bill, the President issued a statement which, among other things, declared some provisions in the bill unconstitutional, and seemed to suggest that he will...
It's looking good. The Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment to the last several years of federal budget bills has prevented the federal government from using its money to prevent the implementation of state medical cannabis laws since 2014. However, the amendment must be renewed each year with the...
Earlier this week WV Governor Jim Justice (great name) signed into law a bill passed by the state legislature to permit the production and sale of medical marijuana in the state. This makes West Virginia the 29th US state to legalize medical marijuana. It is...
Today, in a both exciting and sobering press release, Canada announced a plan to fully "legalize, strictly regulate and restrict access" to cannabis in the Great White North. The release starts bluntly: "The current approach to cannabis does not work." The government of Prime Minister Justin...
In a major development for New York, its Department of Health officially approved a regulation, first proposed in December, to allow people with "any severe debilitating pain that the practitioner determines degrades health and functional capability" that has lasted or is expected to last at...