Article by Kurt Helin, NBC Sports During the long grind of the season, the NBA is about recovery. It’s why getting players enough sleep — changing travel schedules around, canceling shootarounds, etc. — has increasingly become a focus of NBA teams. Sleep is the best thing for recovery. Would marijuana use help with that? Would it be less toxic to ...

Article by Associated Press via Civilized Maryland lawmakers are introducing legislation to regulate and tax marijuana for adult use. Supporters are scheduled to talk about the measure on Monday. One measure would make marijuana legal for adults 21 and older and regulate its production and sale similarly to alcohol. Another bill would enact taxes on non-medical marijuana. The General Assembly ...

Article by The Associated Press via Fortune The future of California’s legal marijuana industry is being shaped in a warren of cubicles tucked inside a retired basketball arena, where a garden of paper cannabis leaves sprouts on file cabinets and a burlap sack advertising “USA Home Grown” dangles from a wall. Here, in the outskirts of Sacramento, a handful of ...

Article by Mitchell Byars, Boulder Daily Camera via The Cannabist Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett has been selected to join a group of prosecutors from across the country who will help advise the Donald Trump administration on policies regarding marijuana. The National District Attorney’s Association created a policy group featuring 14 district attorneys who will issue advisements on possible law ...

Article by Shan Li Tribune News via The Pueblo Chieftain On a bustling stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard lined by vintage stores and eateries, the MedMen shop looks right at home. Sunlight streams in through the store’s floor-to-ceiling windows. Inside, salespeople in bright red T-shirts greet shoppers. Merchandise is carefully arranged on sleek wooden tables lined with iPads. It’s a ...

Article by Mike Adams, Merry Jane Oregon lawmakers are fighting to prevent companies from firing employees who get stoned after hours. A piece of legislation (Senate Bill 301) has been introduced to the state’s legislative forces that would make it illegal for an employer to terminate a worker simply for using marijuana. The measure takes the issue a step further ...

Article by Patrick Whittle, The Associated Press via Yahoo News It’s a green Monday in Maine. The first tangible results of state voters’ decision to legalize marijuana are being felt as possession and home growth of marijuana becomes legal. Voters narrowly passed the ballot question in November, and the waiting period between the vote and legalization has expired. Contentious aspects ...

Article by TG Branfalt, Ganjapreneur Sky High, the Santa Ana, California dispensary that gained national attention after video footage of a 2015 raid showed officers eating edibles, was again raided yesterday as part of ongoing enforcement to crack down on unlicensed dispensaries, the Orange County Register reports. No employees or customers were arrested during the raids, which included Elevated Dreams. ...

Article by TG Branfalt, Ganjapreneur Both houses of Maine’s legislature have passed a bill that delays the rollout of the adult-use cannabis industry another three months and provides for driver license suspensions for people found using the drug while driving, WABI reports. The delay does not apply to the personal possession and home-grow provisions in the voter-backed legalization measure passed ...

Article by TG Branfalt, Ganjapreneur Nevada’s Legislative Interim Finance Committee has approved a $900,000 loan to the Department of Taxation to start the implementation of the adult-use cannabis market, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. The loan will cover the costs associated with writing regulations and setting up the structure to administer the system of cannabis cultivation, testing, processing, and sales. ...