Did you know the 55-and-older crowd is now the fastest-growing demographic of pot users in the country? Barry Petersen takes a look at how the newest marijuana customers are becoming more serious about their cannabis consumption. View More: Health News|Live News|More News Videos Source: Marijuana helping older Americans find pain relief
While it is critical for the industry to determine rules, regulations and standards for pesticide use and quality control, the Colorado Governor has set unrealistic and unenforceable standards for Colorado Cultivation Facilities. More than a year after the city of Denver first started actively policing the marijuana industry’s use of pesticides, the city’s health department […]
If there’s one thing that Massachusetts public officials — Democrat and Republican, urban and suburban, local and state — seem to agree on lately, it’s that the voters should not legalize marijuana at the polls this November. First, the governor, the mayor of Boston and the attorney general (or, apparently, their staffs) penned a joint op-ed in The Boston Globe poo-pooing the proposed […]
COLUMBUS — After Ohio voters resoundingly defeated an ill-formed effort to legalize marijuana last fall, everyone started talking about “doing something” on medical marijuana. The idea was popular with voters: As many as 90 percent of Ohioans say patients should be allowed to use marijuana for medical purposes approved by a doctor. And 23 states already allow some form of […]
Pennsylvania could potentially become the 25th state to legalize medical marijuana, thanks to the passage of Senate Bill 3 in the state House of Representatives this month. The bill, which was supported by Democrats and Republicans alike, will make legal the purchase of marijuana for the treatment of serious medical conditions. With doctor recommendation, patients […]
Once upon a time it was my dream job to travel the world and write reviews of people, products and cultural processes. Now, there is nothing I would enjoy more than a Cannabis World Tour. I want to see how the world embraces this plant that has been suppressed for so long. It is my […]
Oklahoma and Nebraska complained that pot purchased legally in Colorado is being transported illegally into or through their states, overwhelming police and courts dealing with a sudden influx of smugglers. An ounce of high-quality marijuana selling for $200 at a state-licensed Colorado store can fetch three times that on the East Coast black market, police say. […]
Because he’s a scientist, not a back-slapping venture capitalist, Mowgli Holmes loathes using the term networking to describe even the portion of his job that entails shaking hands in the cannabis industry. But it was networking that brought the chief scientific officer of Phylos Bioscience in Portland, Oregon, to Las Vegas in November 2014 to attend the […]
How to make pot seem as all-American as an ice-cold beer Read the entire story from the Source: As the Legal Marijuana Industry Grows, Businesses Struggle to Differentiate and Market Themselves – The Atlantic
Medical marijuana supporters have descended on the state Capitol hoping for long-awaited action that would legalize medical marijuana for more than a dozen conditions. The state House on Monday afternoon was expected to begin discussing and amending SB 3, which passed overwhelmingly in the Senate nearly a year ago. The Senate had passed a bill […]
