Recreational marijuana advocates have started to collect signatures to put weed on the ballot this November. The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Coalition is now collecting petition signatures from people like Sam from Cleveland to change state law. “Y…
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Finally Legal: Applications To Open Cannabis Stores Trickle Into Mississauga, Ont.
Barely two weeks after Mississauga councillors reversed a long-standing decision and decided to allow legal cannabis stores to operate, requests to do business have started to flow in. Until April 19, Mississauga was the largest city in Ontario to ban …
Moroccan Farmers Begin Growing Cannabis For Medical Use
Authorities in Morocco announced on Sunday the official start of its first legal cannabis growing season, two years after the country’s parliament passed a law to regulate an already widespread activity. The first batch of cannabis seeds, imported from…
Needing Younger Workers, Federal Officials Relax Rules on Past Drug Use
As more states legalize marijuana and competition for talent grows fiercer, the U.S. government is loosening guidelines from the “Just Say No” era. Not long ago, urinating in a cup for a drug test was a widely accepted, if annoying, requirement to star…
Lawmakers Reintroduce SAFE Banking Act, A Bill The Cannabis Industry Hails As A Lifeline
A group of bipartisan lawmakers reintroduced the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act in the House and Senate on Wednesday, after the legislation designed to free up banking services for the cannabis industry stalled in last year’s Congress. …
‘Monumental’: Texas House Passes Cannabis Decriminalization Bill, Penalty Reduction And Expungement
Texas’s House of Representatives passed a bill to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of cannabis on Wednesday in a voice vote. The bill still requires a second reading, which is a formality, before heading to the Senate for further considera…
N.W.T.-Grown Cannabis Weeks Away From Hitting Shelves
Boreal Cultivation is territory’s first licensed commercial cannabis producer. Jordan Harker has been dreaming about growing cannabis for more than 30 years. He recently found an old notebook from when he was 15 or 16 years old, with sketches of a secr…
Family Of Singaporean On Death Row For Cannabis Pleads For Clemency
The family of a Singaporean man due to be hanged next week over a kilogram of cannabis pleaded for clemency from the authorities Sunday and urged a retrial. Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, was sentenced to death in 2018 for conspiring to smuggle the drugs and t…
Locked Up For Cannabis, Locked Out Of Work
Recreational use is legal in Illinois, but the state still has prisoners incarcerated for cannabis-related offenses, and those convictions prevent future work in the cannabis industry. raig Cesal was sentenced to life in prison for a cannabis offense b…
Stern German Judge Objects to ‘Absurd’ Law Criminalizing Pot
A social media star with regular appearances on German television, Judge Andreas Müller is unabashed in backing legal marijuana, whether he’s sitting on the bench or playing himself in a music video. Although the judge had steeled himself for a gruelin…