Article by Daily Green Rush. In 2017, cannabis is now more legal and accessible than ever. And its growing use is presenting new problems for law enforcement. Chief among those issues is how to handle folks who chief and drive. This issue is this: there is no reliable way to test how cannabis use influences driving. And in fact, several studies ...

Article by TG Branfalt, Ganjapreneur A Jacksonville, Florida Navy veteran is the first person in the city to receive a medical cannabis home delivery, First Coast News reports. The expansion of the program under the voter-approved Amendment 2 took effect on Tuesday. In 2008, Gabriel George was involved in a motorcycle crash that inflicted injuries that still cause him daily ...

Article by Tom Angell, Marijuana.com Now that Maine and Massachusetts have voted to become the first places on the East Coast tax and regulate marijuana, advocates are watching a trio of nearby New England states to see which will be the next to legalize. While Rhode Island and Vermont are strong contenders, new signs from legislative leaders in Connecticut indicate that the Constitution ...

Article by Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes Marijiuana, a divisive issue that normally resurfaces in Europe during election campaigns, has come home to France’s hotly-contested presidential race. With eight months to go until the 2017 French presidential election, marijuana – or cannabis, as the French prefer to call it – is an honored guest meme in the candidates’ discourse, and a subject of intense controversy among the French electorate. But hold ...

Article by Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post The marijuana industry is at a crossroads. Voters have approved recreational marijuana measures in eight states plus the District of Columbia. When these laws become fully implemented in the next few years, more than one in five American adults will live in places where they can walk into a store and legally purchase marijuana. According ...

Article by Brooke Edwards Staggs, Orange County Register California hopes to take the lead in giving the cannabis industry access to banking services in 2017, with a new working group focused on finding a solution to conflicts between state and federal laws that force marijuana businesses to operate largely in cash. The Golden State has a year to come up ...

Article by TG Branfalt Jr., Ganjapreneur Legal cannabis sales in the U.S. last year reached $6.7 billion, a growth of 30 percent, according to an ArcView Group market research report outlined by the International Business Times. The growth is faster than the dot-com boom of 2000. Tom Adams, ArcView’s editor-in-chief, said that the figures are almost unprecedented in U.S. history. The ...

Article by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times If ever you needed proof that we live in an age of confusion about marijuana laws, let me share with you the story of Ted Hicks and Ryan Mears, two Sacramento-area entrepreneurs who decided to start a legal medical cannabis business last year and ended up on the business end of assault rifles wielded ...

Article by TG Branfalt Jr., Ganjapreneur Cannabis is likely California’s top agricultural crop, besting milk, almonds, grapes, cattle, and lettuce, with an estimated value of $23.3 billion – and that’s not even the legal market figure. The Orange County Register made the estimate based on seizures of illegal cannabis plants over the last five years. The outlet used the U.N. ...

Article by TG Branfalt, Ganjapreneur Alaska’s legal cannabis market earned $750,851.59 from Oct 29., the day the first store opened, to Dec. 9, according to an Alaska Dispatch News report. In November, seven cannabis cultivators paid $81,100 in taxes to the state Department of Revenue – mostly in cash. Half of the tax revenues will be deposited into the state’s ...