The marijuana industry has been practically unstoppable this decade. Just this past year alone, five states legalized medical cannabis , while the number of recreational weed states doubled to eight.
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For marijuana advertisers, options are limited
In San Francisco last year, a growers collaborative bought ads on dozens of city buses and billboards promoting their “small batch” crops. The tagline: “That’s cannabis, the California Way.”
Sean Spicer compared marijuana to opioids – but there’s…
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer relayed the Trump administration’s first official comments on legal cannabis this past Thursday. Unfortunately, his remarks involved zero scientific consideration when he compared adult-use cannabis to the ongoing opioid epidemic: “When you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country, the last thing we should be doing is encouraging people,” Spicer said.
A Colorado county is sending students to college on the…
In February, local officials announced that a first-of-its-kind scholarship program will create $475,000 in funding to help send the county’s graduating high school seniors to local colleges. A majority of the fund – about $425,000 – came from taxing legal marijuana.
Trump Sanctions Venezuela Vice President on Drug Trafficking
The Trump administration imposed sanctions against Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami on Monday, accusing him of playing a major role in international drug trafficking. The executive decree, the result of a years-long investigation, is bound to ratchet up tensions between the new Republican administration and the United States’ harshest critic in Latin America.
2 Billion-Dollar Marijuana Stocks That Could Soar Even Higher
You could have made plenty of money investing in the right marijuana stocks last year. Most, however, are small companies without much of a track record.
‘That idiot’: Rodrigo Duterte responds to former Colombian…
During a speech at an event celebrating the 115th anniversary of the founding of the Philippine Bureau of Customs, President Rodrigo Duterte gave a customarily blunt response to an op-ed written by former Colombian President Cesar Gaviria. Gaviria, who presided over the hunt for and killing of Pablo Escobar , cautioned against deploying armed police and troops to fight the drug trade and called for more efforts to address the social factors related to drug use in a New York Times op-ed titled ” President Duterte is repeating my mistakes .”
Will Falling Cannabis Prices Hurt Marijuana Stocks?
As increasingly more marijuana growers entered the market and more states allowed residents to legally grow marijuana, cannabis prices dropped throughout 2016. Wholesale marijuana prices late in the year were roughly half the levels of 12 months earlier.
You’ll Never Guess Who Wants to See Marijuana Legalized Nationwide
In 1995, just prior to California becoming the first state to legalize medical cannabis for compassionate use, only 25% of respondents in Gallup’s national poll wanted to see pot legalized nationally. That was essentially unchanged since 1980.
This Cutting-Edge Marijuana Bill Could Keep Pot Users From Losing Their Jobs
Marijuana had an incredible 2016, and the hope for pro-legalization enthusiasts is that momentum will continue to carry into 2017 and beyond. As it currently stands, just 21 years after California became the first state to legalize cannabis for medical purposes, 28 states have now legalized medicinal pot, while residents in eight states have voted in favor of legalizing recreational, adult-use weed.
Weed 101: Colorado agriculture agency shares pot know-how
North Carolina wants to know if marijuana could one day replace tobacco as a cash crop. Louisiana is wondering how pot holds up in high humidity.
Weed 101: Colorado agriculture office shares pot know-how
In this Jan. 31, 2017 photo, agriculture regulators from seven different states and Guam tour a Denver marijuana growing warehouse on a tour organized by the Colorado Department of Agriculture in Denver. The department is opening up its marijuana … knowledge to other states and encouraging them to plan now for the possibility of regulating farmers growing a plant that violates federal law.
Should Marijuana Stocks Fear Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch?
It’s been a whirlwind week-and-a-half since Donald Trump took office. In his first 10-1/2 days, Trump has issued more executive orders and proclamations than any other modern-day president.
Just 2 Groups of People Now Oppose Legalizing Marijuana
With the exception of Arizona, which narrowly voted against an initiative that would have legalized recreational pot, residents in eight other states voted in favor of legalizing medical or recreational cannabis in the November election. The year ended with 28 states having approved medical cannabis, and twice as many recreation-legal states as at the end of 2015 .
Trump has two paths he can take on marijuana legalization – …
After his inauguration on January 20, Trump signed an executive order that directs federal agencies to start rolling back the Affordable Care Act, revived two controversial oil pipelines, staged a war on the media, and played a game of chicken with the president of Mexico. But we still don’t know much about Trump’s plans for marijuana legalization.
Tests: Maintenance workers killed by train were on drugs
Both maintenance workers killed by an Amtrak train near Philadelphia last year were on drugs when the crash happened, test results show, but that doesn’t appear to have factored into safety lapses and miscommunications being blamed for their deaths. Toxicology reports released Thursday by federal safety investigators show backhoe operator Joseph Carter Jr. tested positive for cocaine and supervisor Peter Adamovich had morphine, codeine and oxycodone in his system.
Tests: Maintenance workers killed by train were on drugs
Both maintenance workers killed by an Amtrak train near Philadelphia last year were on drugs when the crash happened, test results show, but that doesn’t appear to have factored into safety lapses and miscommunications being blamed for their deaths. Toxicology reports released Thursday by federal safety investigators show backhoe operator Joseph Carter Jr. tested positive for cocaine and supervisor Peter Adamovich had morphine, codeine and oxycodone in his system.
How Big Could the Opportunity Be for Marijuana Stocks in California?
In November, Californians overwhelmingly voted to embrace pro-pot laws that clear the way toward creating the United States’ biggest recreational marijuana market. Is California’s marijuana market a boon to marijuana investors? Read on to see how big California’s marijuana market could become.
Shocker: Most Cops Support Less Harsh Marijuana Laws
If you think that police officers in the U.S. are adamantly opposed to marijuana, think again. A recent Pew Research Center national survey conducted by the National Police Research Platform collected the opinions of7,917 law enforcement officers across the country.
The definitive guide to what experts know about the effects of marijuana use
Cannabis plants grow in the greenhouse at Vireo Health’s medical marijuana cultivation facility, August 19, 2016 in Johnstown, New York. As eight states plus the District of Columbia have moved to fully legalize recreational marijuana, debates on the merits of legalization have focused on the effects of marijuana use on individuals and society: is marijuana bad for your lungs, or for your brain? Does it have therapeutic applications? Is it safer than alcohol or tobacco? Marijuana is one of the most studied substances in scientific literature, but the answers are scattered across tens of thousands of scientific papers.
US Sen. Warren seeks to pull pot shops out of banking limbo
In this Sept. 16, 2015, file photo, customers shop for marijuana inside a recreational marijuana store in Denver.
Police took down a Sydney crime syndicate and made ‘the…
Australian police dismantled a major cocaine smuggling ring after a two-and-a-half-year multi-agency operation undertaken with Tahiti, Australian authorities announced on Thursday. Operation Okesi, which began in July 2014, culminated in a Christmas-night seizure of 500 kilograms of cocaine in New South Wales in eastern Australia.
3 Myths About Marijuana Stocks
What do Hercules, Thor, centaurs, and marijuana stocks have in common? They’re all the subjects of myths. Most myths have at least a little bit of truth interspersed with a lot that is false.
California aims to take lead in giving marijuana industry access to financial services
In this Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016 photo, Rolie Gonzalez III displays a branch of marijuana buds taken for a plant on the farm of grower Laura Costa, near Garberville. California hopes to take the lead in giving the cannabis industry access to banking services in 2017, with a new working group focused on finding a solution to ongoing conflicts between state and federal laws that force marijuana businesses to operate largely in cash.
Year in Review: Marijuana’s Green 2016
As we look back on the year, 2016 may very well go down as the greatest year ever for marijuana and the cannabis industry. Over the past 12 months we’ve watched the industry evolve before our eyes, and in some cases seen legal marijuana spread to new states.
Aging baby boomers increasingly embrace marijuana, heavy alcohol use
I wrote earlier this week on how fewer teens are using drugs or alcohol than at any point in the past few decades. Indeed, while anti-drug PSAs still encourage parents to talk to their teens about drugs before someone else does, two recent studies suggest there’s another high-risk population we should be worried about: our kids’ grandparents.