Article by Joshua Miller, Boston Globe Tokers of the Commonwealth, rejoice. Secretary of State William F. Galvin warned last week that the measure legalizing marijuana might have to be delayed, but now says that won’t be necessary. Galvin’s office said Friday he will submit official results of the voter-passed legalization measure to the Governor’s Council Wednesday for certification. Barring any ...

Article by Johnny Green, Weed News Medical marijuana is for suffering patients. That seems obvious, but there are a lot of policies in America that prevent suffering patients form using medical marijuana. Hospitals are centers for suffering people. It’s where people go to be treated and hopefully healed. Marijuana is a proven medicine, so one would think that people would ...

Article by Kyle Jaeger, ATTN A Bloomberg report revealed President-elect Donald Trump’s likely pick for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner, on Wednesday — and it is giving marijuana legalization advocates a glimmer of hope. Jim O’Neill — an associate at Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital Management and legalization activist, who served as a founding member of the Coalition for Cannabis ...

Article by Jennifer Costa, WCAX “It could have happened in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s. There are thousands of them,” said Gov. Peter Shumlin, D-Vermont. The governor is talking about the number of people convicted over the years in Vermont of minor pot possession. The outgoing lawmaker is now offering these people a Christmas gift before he leaves office. “We’ve got folks ...

Article by TG Branfalt Jr., Ganjapreneur Lawmakers in Israel are likely to  recommend that the nation should start exporting medical cannabis soon, saying the industry would create thousands of agricultural jobs and be worth 1 billion Israeli New Sheqel (more than $2.6 billion), according to a Yediot Ahronot report cited by Globes. The plan was proposed by the inter-ministerial committee of ...

Article by TG Branfalt Jr., Ganjapreneur The City Council of the western German city of Düsseldorf met with psychology, economics, and crime experts yesterday as part of their efforts to legalize cannabis for adults 18 and older, Deutsche Welle reports. Local lawmakers hope that the expert testimony will help convince federal regulators to allow them to move forward with the ...

Article by TG Branfalt Jr., Ganjapreneur Cannabis farmers in Humboldt County, California have formed a collective to create Humboldt’s Finest, a craft cannabis brand, the alliance announced in a press release. The five sungrown flower lines created and cultivated by the multi-generational master gardeners will be released this week at the Emerald Cup in Santa Rosa. Jospeh Shepp, Humboldt’s Finest CEO, ...

Article by Tom Angell, Marijuana.com Pressure is mounting for the Democratic Party to clean house following Hillary Clinton’s unexpected defeat in the presidential campaign, and that could bode well for marijuana legalization efforts. Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota is mounting what appears to be a very strong bid for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). A stalwart progressive who ...

Article by Allie Beckett, Marijuana.com When wealthy Americans show a lack support for medical marijuana, just leave it to the Aussie’s to step in and save the day. Today, Philadelphia’s Thomas Jefferson University is celebrating their latest impressive donation — $3 million from an Australian banking magnate to expand their Center for Medical Cannabis Education and Research. This hefty chunk ...

Article by Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post In the Drug Enforcement Administration’s annual survey of the nation’s law enforcement agencies, heroin remained the top concern in 2016 — head-and-shoulders above all other illicit drugs — while marijuana was a drug of negligible concern. Only 4.9 percent of law enforcement respondents named it their most worrisome drug, down slightly from 6 percent last ...