New Jersey Assembly advances bill adding PTSD to medical pot list
The New Jersey Assembly passed legislation to allow qualified residents with post-traumatic stress disorder to get medical marijuana for treatment.
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Was Obama right in saying marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol?
A cannabis industry attorney says President Obama was right in a 2014 interview in the New Yorker when he said marijuana was no more dangerous than alcohol.
Did the United Nations’ special session on drugs change anything?
The United Nations held a special session on drugs at the General Assembly New York in April, and cannabis industry attorney Christian Sederberg was there.
Will the NFL ever come around and change its cannabis policy?
Will the NFL cannabis policy ever get more real about THC and CBD? Marijuana industry insiders say yes, change is inevitable.
Why do some Colorado politicians oppose medical pot for veterans?
In two separate actions, the U.S. House and Senate this week moved to make it easier for military veterans to access medical marijuana — efforts that were largely, but not unanimously, supported by Colorado’s congressional delegation.
New Oakland laws to help Latino and black-owned pot businesses
To repair what they say was damage done to minorities targeted in the war on drugs, the Oakland City Council on Tuesday approved laws to make the city’s pot industry more inclusive of black and Latino residents.
Big vote ahead and new tweaks in Denver plan to cap marijuana industry
The sponsor of a failed Denver City Council proposal to set marijuana industry caps has refiled the bill with a concession aimed at attracting more support.
Denver council deadlocks in late-night weed sesh on business caps
After a rare floor battle to reshape a proposal that would set location caps for Denver marijuana shops and grow houses, City Council supporters early Tuesday failed to muster a majority for a test vote.
Denver council faces marijuana question worth millions to investors
When the Denver City Council introduces a proposal Monday that would cap the number of locations of pot shops and grow houses, Truman Bradley will be among dozens of investors waiting nervously.
Ep. 52 – He’s a concentrates expert; He’s CEO of vape giant OpenVape
Featured guests: Cannabist concentrates columnist Ry Prichard and OpenVape CEO Ralph Morgan. [podcast] LOTS TO TALK ABOUT • Plans in Colorado to cap recreational THC amounts • A new line of vape pens for high end consumers • Can concentrates become the normal means of consumption, overtaking cannabis flower? TOP…
Cannabist Show: He’s a concentrates wiz; He’s CEO of vape giant OpenVape
Featured guests: Columnist Ry Prichard and OpenVape CEO Ralph Morgan. Talking Colorado pot potency, cannabis concentrates and more.
D.C. leaders set to battle about pot clubs in nation’s capital
Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will ask the D.C. Council to make her powers to ban pot clubs permanent. Bowser has warned that without such authority, Amsterdam-style pot clubs could spring up across the city and it would have no power to regulate them because of restrictions from Congress.
Second suspect reaches apparent plea agreement in VIP Cannabis raids
Another suspect in a case stemming from a series of high-profile federal raids on Colorado medical marijuana businesses has indicated he plans to plead guilty.
Colorado attorney says federal law protects him from pot prosecution
In a motion that could throw federal enforcement of marijuana laws in Colorado into commotion, a lawyer at the center of one of the biggest criminal pot cases in the state’s legal-marijuana era is asking a judge to toss out the case against him.
Boulder pot businesses cited for breaking marijuana advertising ban
Two Boulder marijuana businesses stand accused of violating the city’s ban on pot advertising because they had booths at Out Boulder’s Pridefest celebration last month.
Federal court attacks DEA policies on medical marijuana
A federal court in California has ruled that the Drug Enforcement Administration’s interpretation of a recent medical marijuana bill “defies language and logic.”
Colorado marijuana an economics point for GOP candidates
As Republican presidential candidates prepare to debate economic issues in Boulder, the sweet smell of success for the state’s legally sold marijuana industry seems impossible to overlook.
Editorial: Big holes in Colorado pot oversight with pesticides, MMJ
For all the work Colorado has done in creating the world’s first regulatory structure for legal marijuana sales, the effort is not finished.
Deep dive: Why Colorado has struggled to regulate pot pesticides
State regulators have known since 2012 that marijuana was grown with potentially dangerous pesticides, but pressure from the industry and lack of guidance from federal authorities delayed their efforts to enact regulations, and they ultimately landed on a less restrictive approach than originally envisioned.
California’s vape havens: Bay Area model for social cannabis use
As other states grapple with public pot use, vapor lounges in San Francisco are examples of how social cannabis consumption works at California dispensaries.
Op-ed: Making political sausage with California marijuana laws
It’s go time this week for proposed California medical marijuana laws as Gov. Jerry Brown’s “remix” is part of a session-closing play for the Legislature.
Denver sets 2015 ballot, without marijuana social use initiative
The Denver Elections Division on Thursday certified the Nov. 3 city/county ballot, but missing will be a hot-button voter initiative that would have expanded the city’s marijuana consumption rules to allow toking up at some bars and other businesses.
Op-ed: Congress has ignored need for marijuana research for too long
Members of Congress are often eager to admit they’re not scientists. The trouble is, they also don’t like listening to scientists. Now, America’s ignorance-is-bliss Congress has come to fear what scientists might have to say about marijuana.
Colorado Springs revisiting legal gray area of city’s cannabis clubs
Colorado Springs marijuana: While Denver activists are petitioning for more places for pot use, Colorado Springs officials work in the opposite direction.
Seattle Times: ‘Medical marijuana has value and shouldn’t get you fired’
The editorial board at Washington state’s largest newspaper says medical marijuana use should not be cause for an employee getting fired.
