Conference aimed at tokin’ care of business with Vancouver’s cannabis community Exhibitors, lecturers, cooks and business types will convene on Vancouver this weekend for one of the biggest sessions this side of Sunset Beach. Billing itself as “Canada’s Premier Cannabis Event,” the Lift Cannabis Expo runs Jan. 13 and 14 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.…
In an announcement Monday, the province of Saskatchewan finally unveiled its plans for the distribution and retail sale of legal cannabis. Like most of the country, the liquor control board will oversee the regulation of marijuana at the top level, with the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority (SLGA) handling the permitting process. The SLGA will…
Canada has set the green standard of how a cannabis industry should be run
The state’s Bureau of Cannabis Control continues to issue new permits each day to operators who have their local paperwork in order. A congressional restriction on federal funding for medical marijuanaprosecutions, the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment, has been adopted annually since 2014 but is set to expire on January 19 unless extended by Congress. In a memo, Sessions wrote that…
If you thought cannabis legalization in the Netherlands was a free and easy nonevent, you best think again.
Sebastien Cotte has seen how medical marijuana eased the suffering of his son, who has an incurable neurological disorder.
What comes to mind when you think of cannabis: stoned old hippies? Teenagers smoking illicit joints? It’s about as far away from luxe skincare as you can get.
when state law and federal laws do not match it places the users in a real catch 22
Not everything will be rainbows and sunshine as regulatory hurdles remain. The early lines at newly-licensed California cannabis retail outlets are just a preview of the vast economic opportunities available in the Golden State. However, in California, which led our recent cannabis revolution by voting to legalize medical use back in 1996, not everything will…
Dr. Robert DuPont practically invented the term ‘gateway drug’ in the 1980s. Now he’s back with radical ideas on how to fight the war on drugs