The longer teenagers delay smoking marijuana, the better it is for their brains, according to conventional wisdom. However, a new Université de Montréal study indicates that there may be little ill effect if people start after age 17. This new data is consistent with earlier studies showing that the endocannabinoid system, the human body’s internal Read More »
Helping people overcome addiction may be rewarding in its own right, but can it also offer a safe and reliable investment for marijuana folk to hedge their bets against Jeff Sessions? One New York City activist thinks the current uncertainty is actually an opportunity to diversify in ibogaine internationally, just when exploding demand for addiction Read More »
Nearly seven in ten police officers now agree that marijuana should be legally regulated for either medicinal or recreational purposes, according to a new survey. The Pew Research Center survey of nearly 8,000 law enforcement personnel revealed that 32 percent of respondents supported legalizing the plant for adults and an additional 37 percent felt marijuana Read More »
Riding high on the wake of an unprecedented string of eight cannabis reform victories in a single election last November, the head of one of the world’s most effective drug policy reform groups is unexpectedly stepping aside. After 23 years at the helm, Drug Policy Alliance Executive Director Ethan Nadelman announced his retirement from the organization without revealing his Read More »
Get ready: The International Cannabis Business Conference (ICBC) is bringing its trademark blend of business, social activism and cannabis culture to beautiful San Francisco, California for another information-filled event February 17 at the Union Square Hotel. This will mark the third ICBC in San Francisco, the first since the state voted to legalize recreational marijuana. In addition Read More »
A newly released report shows that legalized cannabis sales are already siphoning billions of dollars of profit from the illicit market each year. Every day more and more consumers choose to patronize their locally taxed and regulated retail outlet rather than a local underground dealer. Trade investment group conducts... Read More »
Dozens of people came to a Southern California hemp importer’s warehouse to look at products and support the domestic farming of industrial hemp. Proposition 64, passed by the voters in 2016, eliminated California’s previous requirement that farmers get a federal DEA license to plant the crop, which is nearly impossible... Read More »
Sports are huge in America — not only in terms of business profits, but also in how it affects us culturally. Just ask four-time NBA champion John Salley, who is slated to address a major cannabis business conference in San Francisco February 17. Sports figures become icons. Sports were... Read More »
President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 330 more people in federal prison for drug offenses on January 19, 2017, bringing the number of prisoners who have been granted clemency during to his term to 1,715. The commutations and pardons represent the Obama Administration’s efforts to overhaul the criminal... Read More »
Nearly 10,000 acres of domestic US hemp were planted across 15 states in 2016, 817 hemp cultivation licenses were issued, 30 universities conducted research on cannabis sativa as an agricultural and industrial crop and 31 states have laws defining industrial hemp. This according to the nation’s leading grassroots hemp advocacy organization... Read More »
As medical and adult use of marijuana go mainstream, one of the biggest problems facing the cannabis industry today is the issue of money. Not how to make it or where to spend it but what to do with it and how to transfer funds back and forth to pay debts. More specifically,... Read More »
The founder of High Times, Tom Forcade, had committed suicide and people were trying to bring heroin into the magazine. Then Reagan won the Presidency, and chances of legalizing pot went up in smoke. In December, 1980 a psychedelic pioneer and a Yippie joined forces to respond to the... Read More »
President Elect Donald Trump took a highly positive tone toward marijuana during the contentious presidential campaign of 2016, repeatedly saying that “we absolutely will do” medical marijuana and that nonmedical marijuana should be “left up to the states.” His choice for US Attorney General has many people shaking their heads and... Read More »
State legislators, medical marijuana patients, doctors and adult cannabis consumers have been stymied in many ways by the federal listing of cannabis as a schedule 1 controlled substance. However, cannabis is not unique in that regard. For example, another powerful medicine plant, the iboga shrub, is likewise banned from medical use.... Read More »