What You Should Know About Treating Alcoholism With Cannabis
admin Alcoholism is rising in the US A 2017 study shows it rose 49 percent in the first decade of this century and now affects one in eight adults. There are…
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Canada’s marijuana packaging rules blasted as ‘unscientific,’ ‘fearmongering’
News A sample of Canada’s proposed recreational cannabis packaging. A day after Canada released detailed packaging requirements for recreational cannabis, executives and analysts warned that the rules are so restrictive that…
California cannabis grower gets $1 million insurance settlement for fire damage
A cannabis grower in Carpinteria, California, has received a $1 million payout from an insurance company after his crop was destroyed by ashes from a wildfire. According to the Santa…
California Cannabis: Oakland Regulates Against Industry-Fueled Displacement
Oakland’s City Council recently passed what is, to our knowledge, a first-of-its-kind ordinance intended to protect residential tenants in the city’s “Green Zone” from being evicted by cannabis businesses (as…
Global pharmaceutical giant Novartis teams up with billionaire-backed Canadian marijuana startup
Published: Mar 20, 2018, 11:45 am • Updated: Mar 20, 2018, 12:20 pm By Jennifer Kaplan, Bloomberg Novartis AG is partnering with a Canadian cannabis company backed by billionaire Peter…
“I’m a healer now”: Former football star Ricky Williams launches his own cannabis brand
Published: Mar 20, 2018, 2:06 pm • Updated: Mar 20, 2018, 2:59 pm By Alex Pasquariello, The Cannabist Staff The stigma is lifting from marijuana — and Ricky Williams. The…
Oakland Embraces Marijuana Sales. Compton Bans Them. How Is Justice Best Served?
OAKLAND, Calif. — When officers burst into Rickey McCullough’s two-story home in Oakland a decade ago they noted a “strong fresh odor of marijuana.” Mr. McCullough had been growing large…