Cannabis Success in Illinois: Illinois Rakes in Nearly $ 20 Million in Revenue in First 12 Days of Legal Recreational Marijuana Sales Illinois has officially joined the cannabis revolution with its first two weeks of legal recreational marijuana sales totaling $ 19,709,345.10. The advance comes after years of hard work…
Recreational cannabis vs medical marijuana: Myths vs facts The amount of false information littered all over the Internet is at an all-time high, and a lot of newbies and potential users of cannabis have been widely led astray because of this. It can be said that the negativity spread by…
Why Illinois Recreational Cannabis Just Exploded the US Black Market Distance makes the heart grow fonder, or so they say, and with the state of Illinois approving recreational cannabis, the distance for cannabis consumers to get great black-market products just got a whole lot shorter. Wait, what? As regular…
First Australian Finally Legalizes Recreational Cannabis Canberra, the capital of Australia, has finally become the first territory of the country to legalize cannabis for recreational use. On Wednesday, the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly voted to legalize adult possession of cannabis. Adults can legally possess up to 50 grams of…
Intro To Recreational Cannabis – What’s in your Weedbox? As part of my ongoing efforts to educate new cannabis consumers in the fine art of “Getting Zonked”, I have decided to work on a series of blog posts that will outline some of the basics of cannabis consumption. With more…
Europe Cannabis News – Luxumbourg Wants to Legalized Recreational Marijuana Luxembourg Is The First EU Nation To Legalize Pot, And Wants The Rest Of European Countries To Follow Luxembourg officially becomes the first European nation to legalize cannabis, the health minister has just confirmed. “This drug policy we had over…
The Real Reason Most People Use Recreational Cannabis, According To Surveys (Hint: It Isn’t To Get High) No matter how popular and widespread recreational use of cannabis has been in the recent months, studies show that people are still buying adult-use cannabis to treat medical conditions. A study in the…
Illinois Becomes 11th Recreational Cannabis State – The Cannonball Run is Close! With all the news this week about Governor Pritzker signing into law the recreational cannabis bill, making Illinois the 11th state to approve a recreational cannabis program, one interesting fact that people are missing is that we are…
Will Mexico Legalize Marijuana by October? Mexico might beat the United States to national legalization by the end of this year. In all likeliness, the United States won’t see full scale federal legalization until 2020 or even 2021. There will be some major changes to banking and federal involvement, however…
Massachusetts Recreational Marijuana Sales Top $ 100 Million Post 420 Dan Adams of the Boston Globe gives a great rundown on the state of cannabis in the state of Massachusetts this week in his weekly email. Now that Massachusetts has actually opened a few dispensaries so that people can actually…