Politics

By, Mike Catalini TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s medical cannabis program has double the number of participating patients since Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy took office in January 2018, his administration said Oct. 22, 2018. Murphy said the decade-old program, which...

The state’s choice of governor will likely have a huge impact on state cannabis policy Vote counting officially begins today, October 22, for the upcoming general election, which takes place on November 6. Many voters received ballots over the last...

Walk through the aisles of any grocery store, and it’s evident. How a product is branded and packaged can affect sales and protect consumers. Similarly, the packaging for marijuana products matters. It should be designed to keep users safe,...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s legislative leaders say a vote to legalize recreational cannabis they penciled in for late October 2018 now appears unlikely. Democratic Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin said Oct. 22, 2018, at an unrelated news conference in...

This morning, police reports began surfacing of a coordinated drug bust at a home along Kentucky 229 in southeast Laurel County. Both the Kentucky State Police and the FBI cooperated in the Saturday enforcement action. Information is still forthcoming...

Circe Wallace is used to being ahead of the curve. After becoming a professional snowboarder in the 1990s, she competed in the first-ever X Games, won a World Championship in Japan, and even worked with Vans to create the...

In a move that’s thrown patients and dispensary owners into confusion, Arizona’s attorney general Mark Brnovich posited in court filings that only dried marijuana should be available for medical consumption. The filings suggest that possession of hashish be deemed...

Legalization has arrived in Canada but not that long ago, no one would have believed it possible. That is glaringly obvious if you remember the ’80s and the ’90s when Canadian television aired anti-drug PSAs that were especially strange...

A key Democratic congressperson has a step-by-step plan to enact the end of federal marijuana prohibition in 2019 if his party takes control of the House, and he’s laying it all out in a new memo. “Congress is out of...

On Halloween of 2012, Chester Watson broke into Hip-Hop with his debut mixtape, Phantom. The breakthrough was cut from the same cloth as masked poet MF DOOM, inspired by contemporaries Earl Sweatshirt and Tyler, the Creator—part of the wave...