A dispensary opens in Arizona as more get shut down in California and more California communities move to shut them down or keep them out. There’s more...
Boulder’s city council voted down a proposed additional 10% sales tax, because the city will receive funds from the state marijuana tax. A proposed 15% excise tax...
The so-called Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA) has been a prolific, yet impotent, anti-marijuana propaganda machine since its inception in the mid 1980′s under President...
Arkansans for Compassionate Care submitted a ballot title, the “Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act”, to Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. McDaniel has already rejected medical marijuana legislation five times,...
Since August 2012, Arizona has seen 98 registration certificates awarded for those wanting to open medical marijuana dispensaries. Last December saw the opening of the first dispensary,...
In an excellent article on the Denver Post, Vincent Carrol explains that officials are waiting to pounce on the marijuana industry like a cash cow, and points...
In an article on seattlepi.com, Jake Ellison notes that Washington’s Liquor Control Board has set no limits on the size of recreational marijuana grows. As far as...
The leader of Mexico’s brutal Zetas organization has been captured in northern Mexico, authorities announced. According to the Associated Press: Trevino Morales, 40, was captured by Mexican Marines...
The Republican-controlled Michigan House Friday approved a bill that would allow for the suspicion-based drug testing of welfare recipients. The bill, House Bill 4118, now heads to the...
Since the passage of I-502, Seattle residents caught smoking marijuana in public have received only warnings from police. The city is expected to enact an ordinance to...
Portland, Maine may become the first city to defy both state and national marijuana laws. Following a vote by City Council on Monday, June 15, voters residing...
Joe Cain, Owner of the Medical Marijuana Farmer’s Market, is organizing a protest for August 13, 2013. That is when the Jackson city council will revisit the...
Cannabis consumption is associated with mitigated symptoms of opiate withdrawal in subjects undergoing methadone maintenance treatment, according to the findings of a new study published online in The American Journal...
With medical marijuana gaining steam in Florida, the discussion of marijuana laws has become more widespread in the state. Many people (including us at Weedist, of course)...
When Washington’s Liquor Control Board released its draft rules, it ruled that cannabis extracts and concentrates (such as hash and hash oils) can’t be sold in retail...
John Glowik has been meeting with officials in Grafton, Massachusetts to discuss his proposal to open a 30,000 square foot medical marijuana dispensary in a local business...
Oregon’s recently-passed medical marijuana dispensary law won’t help owners and operators that were arrested before its passage. Not only that, there is a specific amendment in the...
Patient advocacy group argues that over 200 peer-reviewed studies are more than adequate to show medical efficacy. Medical marijuana patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA)...
Federal prosecutors asked the 9th Circuit to let them pursue charges over a Washington drug-growing operation even though the state decriminalized the manufacture of medical marijuana. Washington...
