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Missouri Prosecutors Trying to Stop Medical Marijuana

Missouri prosectors are are fighting to keep the state from becoming the 26th to legalize medical marijuana. Last week an affidavit was filed in Missouri to fight legal medical marijuana.  The language in the filing...
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Tip Jar: Dispensing Medicine With Budtender Ray Perique of Evergreen Market

Ray Perique, 24, has an extensive background in retail and customer service. He’s worked the sales floor for such companies as Spencer’s Gifts and Liz Claiborne. However, cannabis has always been on his mind. “I...
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Close to 500K Marijuana Arrests in California Over the Past Decade

A recent report by the Drug Policy Alliance found that there were approximately 500,000 arrests for marijuana in California from 2006-2015. The report highlighted several controversial issues. Drug Policy Alliance reports that individuals under the...
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South Dakota Father Frustrated Over Slow Medical Marijuana Progress

A father in South Dakota is not happy with the latest failed effort to legalize medical marijuana in the state. George Hendrickson's son Eli has Dravet Syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy that can cause...
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BigMike’s Marijuana Mansion Party Lights Up the Hollywood Hills

BigMike of Advanced Nutrients doesn't do anything small. And his end-of-summer sensory overload shindig was no exception. The @MarijuanaDon treated guests to an epic entertaining extravaganza at his Marijuana Mansion overlooking the Hollywood Hills,...
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High Hopes for High Desert Cannabis Association

Reacting to the state’s mercurial moves to regulate the cannabis market, the High Desert Cannabis Association was formed to protect the rights of local businesses and patients. The truism “all politics is local” is...
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Court Tells DOJ Not to Prosecute Medical Marijuana Cases

Yesterday, a federal appeals court in San Francisco informed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to stop prosecuting medical marijuana cases where no state law has been violated. A panel consisting of 3 judges in the...
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The Cult of Cannariginals, Emu Oil, and CBD

Former Aflac executive Gary Lowe is betting big on the marriage of emu oil and CBD—and an all-star in-house sales staff. Cannariginals started inauspiciously a few years ago: Gary Lowe left his corporate job and...
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DEA Called Out on Cannabis Hypocrisy

The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has been called out on what seems to be hypocrisy. Last week the federal agency declined to reclassify cannabis on the grounds that there is no proof that the plant...
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California Lawmakers Punt Pot’s Future to Activists

At least 120 people in Sacramento—eighty members of the State Assembly and forty state senators—no doubt are relieved to see the adult-use cannabis initiative on the California ballot in November. They all know that by...