Article by Keith Stroup, NORML One of the next frontiers in the political battles for marijuana smokers is the need to provide venues where marijuana smokers can socialize with other marijuana smokers in a marijuana-friendly lounge. Under current laws in Washington, Colorado, Oregon, and the District of Columbia, it is perfectly legal for smokers to possess specified amounts of marijuana, ...

Article by Lee Fang, The Intercept Pharmaceutical executives who recently made a major donation to an anti-marijuana legalization campaign claimed they were doing so out of concern for the safety of children — but their investor filings reveal that pot poses a direct threat to their plans to cash in on a synthetic cannabis product they have developed. On August 31, ...

Article by Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Colorado’s monthly marijuana sales notched an all-time high in July 2016 as shops sold nearly $122.7 million of medical and recreational cannabis — a 27 percent increase from July 2015, according to state revenue data released Monday. The monthly haul surpasses the previous record notched this past April — a month that includes the ...

Article by Leslie J. Clary, Ganjapreneur On certain Saturday nights in Bakersfield, California, you can find a group of vendors and patients in an empty parking lot, meeting up for an evening of medication, education, music and community. The images here are captured from a Saturday, August 27 “popup” — there is another of these gatherings, however, scheduled for this ...

Article by Matt L. Stephens and Kelly Lyell, The Coloradoan If college athletes want to use marijuana, the NCAA likely won’t catch them, and Treyous Jarrells is proof of that. He says he was high in almost every game he played. Now he has given up his dream of a football career for one that’s very different: He has one of 102,620 ...

Article by Sam Stecklow, The Kind When writing the law that created Illinois’s Medical Cannabis Pilot Program in 2013, its sponsor, powerful state representative Lou Lang, included broad language exempting wide swaths of information from being released under the state’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which stipulates that all government documents not specifically exempted are public information. Lang also included ...

Article by Russ, WeedNews.co It’s got to be tough being against marijuana legalization these days. The last ten national polls in a row have shown majority support for legalization. Five states may legalize this November, led by California, where Prop 64 is getting 71 percent support in the polls. Majorities consistently agree that marijuana is safer than alcohol. Fear of ...

Article by Sam Wood, The Inquirer Medical marijuana won’t be available in Philadelphia for more than a year, but when it finally arrives, patients may be able to have it delivered to their doors like a pizza or pick it up at a dispensary tucked inside a large shopping mall. At a City Council committee hearing Friday, city senior planner ...

Article by Business Insider via Yahoo Finance The legal-weed industry faces many unique challenges to doing business. Most companies in the space are frozen out of banks, can’t use credit cards for transactions, and can’t get loans. It all creates huge headaches for the industry. On top of that, marijuana is like any other commodity: When there’s a supply glut, ...

Article by Gillian Graham, Portland Press Herald Maine law enforcement is unprepared to deal with a legal marijuana market that could negatively affect youth and communities, a group of Maine police chiefs said Friday. The Maine Association of Chiefs of Police came out strong against a marijuana legalization proposal during a news conference following the association’s annual fall meeting in ...