Politics

Did Anthony “Dr. Marijuana” Anzalone overextend himself by authorizing over 3,000 patients for New Jersey’s burgeoning medical marijuana program? State authorities seem to think so — and have underlined their views by putting a freeze on Anzalone’s license while...

Girl Scout Cookies, Superman OG, Silver Haze, and Critical Kush are just some of more than a dozen medical cannabis strains Michigan regulators recalled from two dispensaries on Friday. Friday’s recalls are mandatory and require that dispensaries notify affected...

It’s apropos that the legislation responsible for dramatically changing the legal, medical, and cultural standing of marijuana would be numbered 420 — but, really, it couldn’t have been numbered anything else. Democratic U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon introduced the...

From the viewpoint of producers that kept the cannabis industry alive during decades of prohibition, the big money and corporate interests flocking to the legal marijuana industry are a threat to the existence of small businesses and their independent...

Vancouver stalwart Cannabis Culture is closing at the end of the month, as many as 35,000 would-be cannabis store operators entered Ontario’s lottery, and Shoppers Drug Mart has launched an online store for medical cannabis. We’ve rounded up this week’s top stories...

COLUMBIA, S.C.  — A panel of South Carolina legislators voted Jan. 10, 2019, to advance a resolution urging Congress to open more research on medical uses for marijuana, taking another step toward loosening some of the state’s attitudes toward...

The cannabis industry collides with gritty true crime drama in the latest Netflix docu-series Murder Mountain. The 6-part series traces the case of a Southern Californian man who, like many others, has gone missing in Humboldt County. His last...

The legal cannabis market is exploding across the United States and is projected to have a nearly $40 billion economic output by 2021, according to an analysis by two cannabis research companies. Rural and rust belt communities that have suffered...

Thiel, the billionaire most well-known for being the co-founder of PayPal (PYPL) and the secretive big data unicorn Palantir, first invested in Privateer in 2014 through his Founders Fund. Investors had worried Privateer might start to dump its Tilray stock...

It should come as no surprise to anyone that infusing cannabis into exquisite culinary dishes would eventually occur and become, not necessarily fashionable, but an important mode of cannabis consumption. Cooking is an art—a sensuous, satiating enterprise, swirling in...