Article by Nadia Kounang, CNN More than half of US states allow for medical marijuana, and several states and the District of Columbia have legalized its recreational use. Yet the use of marijuana in America’s most popular professional sports league remains controversial. It’s on the National Football League’s banned substances list, but more and more players are calling for the ...

Video by Micheal Kushbury, Kushbury.com Got me some Onyx a few weeks back and it’s a pretty interesting little strain! Onyx is from Peace Naturals Project and as many of you know, Peace strains are all considered proprietary genetics, that is they give you all the pertinent information like indica / sativa, THC, CBD and symptom recommendations (if you are ...

Article by Valerie Bolden-Barrett, HR Dive Dive Brief: A woman is suing her healthcare provider, Spectrum Health Systems Inc., for revealing to her employer, Michigan-based Gentex Corp., that she uses medical marijuana, reports Business Insurance. The lawsuit, Lisa Richlich v. Spectrum Health Systems Inc., charges Spectrum with violating her privacy under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and forcing her ...

Article by The Cannabist Ponder these names: Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani. Are these names more dangerous for the cannabis legalization movement than that of Donald Trump? “It’s certainly a reason to be concerned about a Trump administration,” Taylor West, deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, said on this week’s Cannabist Show. “While Donald Trump has been sometimes ...

Article by Jacob Sullum, Reason.com Donald Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton was not the only big surprise produced by yesterday’s elections. Even those of us who were rooting for the nine marijuana initiatives on state ballots this year did not expect so many of them to pass. Yesterday voters made marijuana legal for recreational use in four states (California, Maine, ...

Article by Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone There are plenty of things to be scared about during Donald Trump’s presidency: who he’ll nominate to the Supreme Court, the potential gutting of the Affordable Care Act, whether he’ll further strip women of their bodily autonomy and the treatment of millions of Muslim citizens, just to start. While it may seem like a ...

Article by Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post Today the Associated Press finally called Maine’s marijuana ballot measure in favor of legalization. The ‘yes’ votes just squeaked by the ‘no’ votes with just a couple thousand votes to spare. In sum, reform of marijuana laws won in eight out of the nine states where it was put on the ballot, the strongest ...

Article by Doug Smith, The Toronto Star There is growing speculation that a new Collective Bargaining Agreement is on its way in the NBA – the silence about any talks has to be a good sign, I’d suggest – and there’s one issue that I wonder how they’ll deal with now. Marijuana. Aside from the other, um, things that came ...

Article by Don Thompson, Associated Press via The Toronto Star Donald Trump’s election as president is giving a big social-media boost to an unlikely effort in the nation’s most populous state: a plan to vote on seceding from the union. The Yes California Independence Campaign hopes to put a question on the November 2018 ballot that would authorize a statewide ...

Article by Simon Jenkins, The Guardian How did the world change on 8 November 2016? No, it was not the election of Donald Trump. It was the passage of California’s proposition 64, removing legal controls on the production and sale of marijuana. A quarter of Americans will now be able to buy cannabis legally, from California to Massachusetts, from Florida ...