UN Drug Commission: We Didn’t Have Time To Reschedule THC This Year, Sorry The United Nation’s Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) met during the 61st Session held in Vienna, Austria last month. Legalization advocates were hopeful that the agency would finally reschedule cannabis’s psychoactive cannabinoid THC, as per a recommendation…
How Did Canada Fare With Recreational Cannabis This Year? Legalizing recreational marijuana had its fair share of bumps on the road for Canada this year. Still, it was undoubtedly one of the biggest news of all of 2018 because Canada became the first G7 nation to finally say goodbye to…
5 Reasons Why 2018 Was The Biggest Year For Cannabis Legalization 2018 was a massive year for cannabis legalization. There were lots of surprising highlights, and a few not so surprising ones. Either way, everyone in the cannabis movement has something to be happy about before the year ends; whether…
2018 Recap – Significant Cannabis Victories! We’re coming to an end of 2018 and with it we take a step back and look at some of the significant cannabis victories all over the world. The year started off with a wobble with threats from then Attorney General Jeff Sessions, however…
US Congress Could Pass Game-Changing Bill That Protects Pot From Feds By Next Year The STATES Act, an important piece of cannabis legislation, could actually pass next year – changing lives of millions of Americans in the process. The bill, which stands for The Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting…
1 in 7 Americans Used Pot Last Year According to a recent poll of 16,280 adults, almost 15% of Americans have admitted to using pot last year. The poll, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine journal, revealed that in 2017, the number of cannabis-consuming Americans spiked up from 13%…
The First FDA-Approved Marijuana-Based Drug Is Going To Cost You $ 32,500 Per Year In June this year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just approved GW Pharmaceuticals’ new cannabis-based drug called Epidiolex. This is the first time in history that the FDA has ever done so, in what is…
Men in their 20s accounted for nearly a third of all DUI cases in Colorado in 2016, according to a first-of-its-kind comprehensive report on impaired driving in the state that also found most people charged with DUI are ultimately convicted. Young men were the largest group of defendants in a…
Marijuana Charges In Canada Hits Record Low In 20 Years Cannabis –related convictions in Canada have dropped to a record low in the last 20 years, following a 6-year trend nearing the legalization of adult use cannabis. Data from Statistics Canada revealed that in 2017, roughly 13,800 people faced charges…
Colorado’s legal marijuana grows produced tons of cannabis last year — nearly 500 tons to be more exact. And Colorado’s cannabis consumers ate, smoked, vaped and dabbed that right up. Colorado’s marijuana shops sold 11.1 million edibles, 411,000 pounds of flower and a sharply increasing amount of marijuana concentrate last…