Connecticut is primed to become the 18th state to legalize cannabis for recreational use. The state’s House of Representatives passed legislation to do so on Wednesday night, and with the Senate approving the latest version of the bill on Thursday, the only thing still needed to make it official is …
Read More »How Federal Prohibition Is Turning Cannabis Into a Climate Villain
Traveling north from San Francisco, the rolling vineyards of wine country soon give way to stands of redwoods and the famed cannabis lands known as the Emerald Triangle, where the local microclimate gives rise to some of the world’s most storied weed. But while you can pick up a bottle …
Read More »The Story of 4/20
In 1971, somewhere around harvest time in California, a group of San Rafael High School students known as “the Waldos,” because they liked to congregate outside class against a wall, inherited a map. It allegedly led to a crop of abandoned cannabis plants near the Point Reyes Peninsula Coast Guard …
Read More »Massachusetts Mayor First In Line to Buy Legal Weed
The mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts was first in line to legally purchase marijuana at one of the town’s new dispensaries, CBS reports “I think there’s a lot going on here in trying to bring marijuana out of the shadows,” Mayor David Narkewicz said. Massachusetts voters legalized recreational marijuana in 2016, …
Read More »Canada Legalizes Recreational Marijuana Use
Update, Wednesday, June 20, 3:25 p.m. EST: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Wednesday that legalization will go into effect on October 17th, 2018. Canada has legalized recreational marijuana use after the country’s two legislative chambers approved the Cannabis Act Tuesday, the CBC reports. The bill will allow Canadian …
Read More »New York State Inches Closer to Legal Weed
Among the big, blue states, New York has been wildly backward on marijuana law. That may finally be changing. Governor Andrew Cuomo – who as recently as last year touted the prohibitionist myth that marijuana is a “gateway drug” – is about to receive a report from the state’s health …
Read More »Bill Nye on the Science of Pot: 'If it Works, Let's Go'
Everyone’s favorite science guy is back – and, like the millennials who grew up watching him on TV, his interests have matured. Netflix’s Bill Nye Saves the World tackles the science behind complex subjects like climate change, the sexual spectrum, and, yes, marijuana. As disorienting as it is to watch …
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