Medical Marijuana News

January 19, 2017

Q&A: Everything You Need to Know About Denver’s New Pot in Public Law

BY KRISTEN WYATT ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER (AP) — Denver has started work on the nation’s first law allowing marijuana clubs and use in public places such as coffee shops or art galleries. But the details about what those pot clubs would look like are very much in the air. Here’s […]
January 19, 2017

German Lawmakers Back Plan for Pot Prescriptions

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers have approved legislation that would allow some patients to get cannabis as a prescription-only medication. Parliament’s lower house passed the bill unanimously on Thursday. The vote clears the way for the law to take effect in March. Health Minister Hermann Groehe has stressed the move […]
January 19, 2017

Forget the Feds: Across the Country, State Lawmakers Are Delaying Marijuana

The existential angst that for years has been a way of life for the cannabis industry—and anyone whose economic livelihood rests on the wobbly legal footing holding up marijuana in America—remains at a low ebb following weed’s historic showing on Election Day. What worry there is stems mostly from Jeff […]
January 19, 2017

Cop on NYC Mayor’s Security Team Busted for Marijuana—Another NYPD Smear Job?

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has had a fractious relationship with his police department, which is inconvenient: In addition to operating a police force so large in size, global reach and international prestige that it rivals the military fielded by small countries, the New York Police Department also provides […]
January 19, 2017

Sheriff Accused of Meth Theft Pleads to Felony, Resigns

BY JOHN RABY ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A newly elected West Virginia sheriff who admitted he was a meth addict and was charged with stealing the drug from a police locker pleaded guilty to a felony and resigned from office Wednesday, a prosecutor said. Bo Williams entered the […]
January 18, 2017

Americans and Canadians Spent $53.3 Billion on Weed Last Year

U.S. and Canadian weed consumers plopped down $53.3 billion for legal and illegal marijuana in 2016, according to a new report from Arcview Market Research. However, the vast majority of those transactions took place on the black market. Still, this is more money than Americans spent at McDonald’s and Starbucks combined, […]
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