Article by Newshub The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party is offering guided tours of California to buy legal weed. The party has announced the tours as part of Mt Roskill by-election candidate Brandon Stronge’s campaign. The eight-night guided tour will include visits to attractions such as San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island as well as the a range of ...

Article by Tetona Dunlap, The (Twin Falls) Times-News via Idaho Statesman Kelsey Osborne waved a sign outside the Twin Falls County Courthouse: “Illegal does not equal injury.” She was joined by 10 others including Serra Frank, founding director of Moms for Marijuana International, who held a sign that said, “Parents beware CPS is corrupted. Osborne, 23, pleaded not guilty Tuesday ...

Article by Carl Wellstone, Weed News Cannabis activists and industry members have long been warning Oregon legislators, policy makers and regulators about the dangers of over-regulation, but, too often, such warnings seem to have fallen on deaf ears. The cost of licensees was increased about four times more than what voters approved when passing Measure 91; legislators made it easier ...

Article by Mike Adams, Merry Jane It appears president-elect Donald Trump is recruiting a team that will have no qualms, whatsoever, about castrating the medical marijuana industry when his administration takes office in 2017. According to a report from the New York Times, the Donald has selected six term Republican Congressman Tom Price, a vicious opponent of medical marijuana, to ...

Article by John Wawrow, The Associated Press The NFL suspended Buffalo Bills offensive tackle Seantrel Henderson for 10 games for what the player’s agent tells The Associated Press stems from his client using marijuana to relieve the effects of Crohn’s disease. The Bills announced the league notified them on Tuesday of Henderson’s suspension for violating the league’s substance abuse policy. ...

Article by Maurice Garland, Hip Hop Wired Master P is putting his bid in on the legal cannabis industry with “Master P’s Trees.” The “Ice Cream Man” is getting in on the legal dope game. OG rapper/entrepreneur Master P has announced that he dropping his own line of “premium cannabis products” called Master P’s Trees. The product line will feature flower ...

Article by Emily Gray Brosious, Extract Retired NFL player Eugene Monroe announced Tuesday, Nov. 29, that he is joining the Chicago-based medical cannabis company Green Thumb Industries(GTI) as a full-time partner and will be taking on the role of co-CEO of the company’s Pennsylvania operation. “As an existing GTI investor, I am excited to join the company as a partner ...

Article by Will Star, Weed Weekly Anita Thompson, has steadily been hard at work to honor the literary legend and counterculture icon. In June, Thompson closed on a legal trust transfer of the 42-acre Woody Creek compound known as Owl Farm, in the central Colorado Rockies where the author lived from 1969-2005. The transfer now gives her full control of ...

Article by Kristen Wyatt, Associated Press via Philly Voice Weed is winning in the polls, with a solid majority of Americans saying marijuana should be legal. But does that mean the federal government will let dozens of state pot experiments play out? Not by a long shot. The government still has many means to slow or stop the marijuana train. ...

Article by Marcy Kreiter, International Business Times via Yahoo News President Barack Obama says though he doesn’t think legalizing marijuana will end America’s drug problem, he believes pot should be regulated the same way cigarettes and alcohol are regulated. Obama, in an interview with Rolling Stone published Tuesday, said regulating marijuana is a much smarter way to handle the issue ...