Article by The Associated Press via ABC News Bars and many restaurants in Denver won’t be able to offer on-site marijuana consumption because of a new state rule announced Friday that prohibits liquor-license holders from applying for the permit. The new regulation, approved by the Liquor Enforcement Division of the Colorado Department of Revenue, takes effect Jan. 1 and strikes ...

Article by Jamaica Observer The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) expects to grant conditional licences by the end of the year for the growing and processing of ganja for medicinal and therapeutic purposes and for research and development. Chairman of the CLA Board, Hyacinth Lightbourne, told JIS News that the entity has received 89 applications. Of the number, 25 are for ...

Article by Thomas Fuller, New York Times California’s multibillion dollar marijuana industry, by far the nation’s largest, is crawling out from the underbrush after voters opted to legalize cannabis in this month’s election. In Sonoma County alone, an estimated 9,000 marijuana cultivation businesses are operating in a provisional gray market, and are now looking to follow the path of the ...

Article by Uri Berliner, NPR Quietly on election night, overshadowed by the epic battle between blue and red, the map of America grew greener. Voters in four states — California, Massachusetts, Nevada and Maine — chose to legalize recreational marijuana. In Florida, Arkansas, Montana and North Dakota, ballot measures passed allowing pot to be used for medical purposes. (Only Arizona ...

Article by Bill Kilby, Washington Post Election Day was a blowout for the cause of legal marijuana. Ballot measures legalizing medical or recreational cannabis use passed for the first time in seven states, with a defeat in Arizona the only setback for activists. But, as the experiences of other legal-marijuana states show, the thorniest debates are just starting. How should ...

Article by TG Branfalt Jr, Ganjapreneur The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board has adopted a “Not for Kids” Red Hand warning symbol to be placed on edible cannabis products, the agency announced in a press release. The board settled on the symbol over the “Mr. Yuk” symbol and other symbols that included the word “poison.” The “Not for Kids” ...

Article by Tammerlin Drummond, Bay Area News Group via The Cannifornian Every July 4th, Augie, a 4-year-old Chihuahua mix, would go into freak-out mode. He trembled. He refused to eat, sleep or let anyone pick him up. His owners tried giving him Xanax for his fireworks phobia. “He would act like your worst drunk friend at a bar who picks ...

Article by TG Branfalt Jr, Ganjapreneur AXIM Biotechnologies, the maker of CanChew Gum, has been granted a Notice of Allowance by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for all natural and synthetic cannabinoids in its controlled-release chewing gum products, the company announced in a press release. A Notice of Allowance is issued after the agency determines that a patent can ...

Article by Adam Edelman, New York Daily News The “War on Drugs” was actually a political tool to crush leftist protesters and black people, a former Nixon White House adviser admitted in a decades-old interview published Tuesday. John Ehrlichman, who served as President Richard Nixon’s domestic policy chief, laid bare the sinister use of his boss’ controversial policy in a ...

Article by Rita Rubin, Forbes More than half the states–28, to be exact–including Arkansas, Florida and North Dakota as of the Nov. 8 election, and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for certain medical conditions. And yet, the Drug Enforcement Administration still classifies marijuana as a Schedule I drug, defined by the 1970 Controlled Substances Act as a drug that ...