Politics

In the coming months, New York legislators will likely be sweating out the details of the adult-use cannabis regulations that Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said is one of his top priorities for the first 100 days of 2019. A...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The rollout of statewide medical and recreational cannabis programs typically is a grindingly slow process that can take years. Not so in Oklahoma, which moved with lightning speed once voters approved medical cannabis in June 2018. The...

Tom Lauerman, who prefers the handle “Farmer Tom Lauerman,” operates a 7-acre organic cannabis farm in Vancouver, Washington, with a focus on personal medical cannabis growing. “I’m the only federally recognized organic cannabis farmer,” Lauerman said. In 2015, scientists from the...

After a secret overnight flight from Washington, the President and Melania Trump touched down onto a darkened air strip at Al Asad Air Base west of Baghdad, the dicey security situation still restricting Trump to a clandestine visit more...

The authors of a new study on teen marijuana use say legalization in Washington has not caused rates to go up — they appear to be in decline Cannabis legalization for adults 21 and over in Washington has not led...

History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. And next year, legalization is going to rhyme with normalization, modernization, and Zkittlez, among other trends. Read on for 24 predictions that will most definitely happen in cannabis in 2019,...

Populists will claim they have the answers; traditionalists will say nothing is wrong they can't fix. But be sure of one thing: Our old, comfortable order is going to change -- and not in an incremental way that we can...

With the holidays upon us and friends and family gathering to celebrate, thousands of people around the United States are setting out an empty chair with the photo of an absent child, parent, spouse or friend. Pinned to the...

When I rolled up at a stately purple Victorian whose address I’d only received hours before, Jamie Evans—better known as “the Herb Somm”—was waiting to greet me with warmth and charm. A vivacious oenophile and expert in Old World...

A new decree by Colombia’s freshly minted conservative president is creating chaos in a country that by 2018 was poised to become one of the major players in the global medical marijuana market. On Oct. 1, 2018, Colombia’s newly elected...