6 Signs That Cannabis Is Now Mainstream Back in the 70’s and 80’s, cannabis was once nothing more than an aspect of counterculture. It was only popular among hippies and rebels, yet pot has managed to slowly come up from the underground. Today, cannabis use no longer caters to the…
Hemp Is Officially Legal: Trump Signs 2018 Farm Bill Into Law Hemp is officially legal! President Donald Trump just signed the Farm Bill into law on Thursday afternoon, which means that industrial hemp is officially legal throughout the country. It’s been a long time coming, and the cannabis industry has…
How Cannabis Elevates Real Estate Prices – Signs of the Times! There once was a time where the appearance of a Starbucks or a Trade Joes, or a Whole Foods in a neighborhood was the determining factor that the community is on the rise. However, these days the appearance of…
Trump Signs A Bill That Legalizes MMJ For Terminally Ill, Now What For Cannabis? President Trump is set to sign a bill, called the “Right To Try”, which would legalize medications that may be life-saving for terminally ill patients even if they haven’t completed the FDA approval process. Once signed,…
Published: Jan 22, 2018, 12:47 pm • Updated: Jan 22, 2018, 1:15 pm By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff Vermont on Monday became the ninth U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana and the first to do so via a legislative act. Gov. Phil Scott signed H. 511, a bill allowing…
Published: Dec 22, 2017, 11:07 am • Updated: Dec 22, 2017, 11:07 am By Alex Pasquariello, The Cannabist Staff President Donald Trump signed a temporary spending bill into law on Friday to avert a government shutdown after the Republican-led Congress did the bare minimum in a sprint toward the holidays…
Published: Nov 13, 2017, 8:52 am • Updated: Nov 13, 2017, 8:52 am By The Associated Press NEW YORK — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation Saturday to add post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of ailments that can legally be treated with medical marijuana. The PTSD bill was…
The Massachusetts House and Senate changed their state’s recreational marijuana laws outlining the details of how the state plans to rollout pot shops and tax cannabis sales. The biggest updates to the marijuana ballot law, which was already passed in November, is higher taxes on sales and laws on how…
Published: Jun 12, 2017, 7:44 am • Updated: Jun 12, 2017, 8:19 am By Jesse Paul, The Denver Post Gov. John Hickenlooper on Friday signed into law a controversial bill that changes how state law enforcement seize money and property suspected of being linked to crimes, despite pressure from Colorado sheriffs and…
Published: May 10, 2017, 8:09 am • Updated: May 10, 2017, 8:47 am By Kathleen Foody, The Associated Press ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal approved an expansion of the state’s medical marijuana program on Tuesday, allowing people being treated for six additional medical conditions to possess cannabis oil. The…