Politics

by Pedro Padilla, Executive Director, NORML at the U of U October 29, 2018 Members of the newly established NORML at the University of Utah hosted a panel discussion on the current state of marijuana law reform efforts in Utah,...

Growing cannabis is easy, selling in a government- and corporate-dominated environment of post-legalization isn’t. But it’s not impossible. And Western Canadian Cannabis Consultants (WCCC) is trying to help growers and would-be growers navigate the intricately complicated world of government...

Colorado can do a lot more to make its legal marijuana market more open, transparent and equitable, a coalition of criminal justice reform advocacy groups said in an Oct. 25, 2018, letter outlining regulatory recommendations. The coalition, led by the...

In late August, the Korean Customs Service, via The Korea Times, released the following statement regarding cannabis legalization in Canada: “It will still be illegal for Koreans to smoke marijuana in Canada or anywhere else. Koreans who return here after...

Two-thirds of Americans now support legalizing marijuana, the highest percentage ever in Gallup’s ongoing decades-long series of national polls on the topic. The new survey released Oct. 25, 2018, shows that U.S. adults back ending cannabis prohibition by a supermajority...

By, Kathleen Foody DENVER (AP) — A federal trial in Colorado could have far-reaching effects on the United States’ budding cannabis industry if a jury sides with a couple who say having a marijuana business as a neighbor hurts their...

When cannabis legalization was first proposed to Canadians as part of the Liberal Party’s platform in the 2015 federal election, one of the benefits that Canadians were promised was a reduction in organized crime. This reduction in crime was supposed...

Even though cannabis became legal overnight in Canada on October 17, establishing the country’s legal retail industry could take months. In fact, access to retail storefronts is highly uneven across Canada, due to different rules governing cannabis in different...

Soon enough, the three-dozen guests took their seats at three tables, arranged in a big U. I sat next to Drew, an anesthesiologist and mountain biker who could easily have passed as Vin Diesel’s hipster stunt double. Drew was...

Derek Mercury, owner of Jeffersonville, Vermont-based Maple Plus, says simple is better. “It’s a very simple product,” he says of the enhanced maple sugar that became available on April 20 of this year. “There’s just two ingredients.” Those ingredients: maple sugar...