Politics

The new year marks the start of the 116th Congress, as well as the launch of numerous state legislative sessions.As lawmakers return to work at the state and federal levels, elected officials and advocates for social justice and marijuana...

Michigan's Medical Marijuana Licensing Board voted to allow up to 70 medical marijuana provisioning centers to reopen until at least March 31, 2019, while their license applications are under review. The move follows a series of issues with licensed facilities...

A New Mexico Democrat said he is “optimistic” that a finalized bill on adult-use cannabis will be introduced to the House of Representatives the week of Jan. 21, 2019. On the eve of the first session of the 54th Legislature,...

Arizona saw a 41 percent increase in medical marijuana sales in 2018, according to data released by the state Department of Health Services this week. In all, approximately 61 tons of cannabis products were sold by medical marijuana dispensaries in...

As the United States continues to grapple with cannabis legalization on the federal level, a number of companies in Canada are positioning themselves to succeed on a global scale. But few have managed to spread their roots like the...

This week marks three months of legalization in Canada, Bill Blair is gaslighting the cannabis industry, and Hamilton police invited local media to join to a dispensary raid, and more top headlines from across Canada. We’ve rounded up this week’s...

The US Virgin Islands this week became the latest US territory to greenlight medical cannabis, with Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. signing a legalization bill into law on Tuesday. It’s a change that’s been a long time coming. In 2014, 56.5%...

HBO's “High Maintenance” returns for its third season on Jan. 20, 2019, at 10:30 p.m. Unlike most marijuana-focused television shows, the cable series has gained critical acclaim for being a weed show that is actually good. Weedmaps News staff...

The connection between cannabis and yoga stretches back centuries. Hindu scriptures hold that Shiva, the third god in the Hindu triumvirate, ingested a cannabis-infused drink called bhang to focus inward and harness his divine powers. Shiva is also known...

CLEVELAND — One of the first people, if not the very first person, to purchase medical marijuana in Ohio on Jan. 16, 2019, thinks the much-anticipated opening of dispensaries is a “great day” for the state. “I think it's a...