Advocates applaud Illinois legislature on HB1, but pledge to pursue follow-up bill to improve the law The Illinois Senate voted 35-21 today to pass HB1, the “Compassionate...
New York Senator Liz Krueger revealed a draft of her bill “Marijuana Regulation, and Taxation Act” last week. The legalization bill resembles Colorado’s Amendment 64, allowing 6...
Who: Federal defendant Ronnie Chang and his atty Michael J. McCabe Esq. What: Gag Order Hearing in Federal Medical Marijuana Case, then Press Conference...
This week we found a very cool dragon pipe honoring the George R. R. Martin series, Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones has earned much noteriaty since...
Yesterday was the public’s first look at the new Washington State marijuana logo, as well the state’s first draft of marijuana laws. Let other Weedists know in this...
Working at a medical marijuana dispensary in Denver has allowed me to see a wide variety of people, who all use cannabis for different reasons. One of...
Washington’s Liquor Control Board released draft regulations for the state’s legal marijuana industry yesterday. The draft regulations include: Tracking marijuana from seed to store, most likely setting...
Schools that institute student drug testing programs are likely to experience a rise in students’ consumption of ‘hard’ drugs, according to observational trial data published this week in the Journal...
An accountability expert described a possible way to reform New York City’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy as the evidence phase in a trial on the issue wound down...
The U.S. attorney for the northern district of California, Melinda Haag, defended her lawsuits against landlords of medical marijuana outlets one day after this city’s largest provider...
Robert “O.J.” Hudson is a forty-something medical cannabis patient who suffers from a host of sleep disorders leaving him debilitated and looking for non-chemical answers to his...
Research published online May 14 in Social Psychological and Personality Science has uncovered that marijuana buffers people from experiencing social pain.
Dispensaries providing marijuana to doctor-approved patients operate in a number of states, but they are under assault by the federal government. SWAT-style raids by the DEA and...
For the smokers looking to enjoy a complex mystery with both interpersonal and intense medical dramas mixed in, House fits the bill perfectly. In the show, Dr....
The manslaughter indictment against NYPD officer Richard Haste, who has been accused of shooting unarmed teen Ramarley Graham, was thrown out by a Bronx Judge on Wednesday,...
We all know what a mess California’s medical marijuana regulations are, unless we are in denial about it. The city of Los Angeles now has 3 different...
Washington DC council members Tommy Wells, mayoral candidate for the District of Columbia in 2014, and former mayor Marion Barry are drafting a marijuana decriminalization bill. The...
“Marijuana use is associated with an acute increase in caloric intake,” goes the clinical jargon for popular lore. Still, despite eating more while high, marijuana users’ extra...
The feds stay on the attack in California, and fallout from last week’s state Supreme Court decision allowing local dispensary bans mounts. There’s news from other states...
Canna Security America, led by Dan Williams, might be the furthest thing you think of when you hear the term “marijuana business.” Williams and his partners have...
