August 17, 2018
The global cannabis industry is booming. According to GrandViewResearch, it will grow at a CAGR of 34.6% from 2018-2025. By 2024, the industry will be valued at a whopping $63.5 billion. Cannabis could even outshine the alcohol and tobacco markets in the very near future; something that William “Beau”...
August 17, 2018
Thor Benson / Cannabis News Box Contributor North Dakota will officially be voting on cannabis legalization in November, and cannabis advocates are hopeful that citizens will approve the measure. The state approved medical cannabis in 2016, and it seems like voters might be ready to take the next...
August 17, 2018
New York is inching closer to legalizing recreational cannabis and in the midst of this, a new cannabis breathalyzer is being unveiled. The unique law enforcement device is designed to detect traces of cannabis in pot smokers. Motorists who are caught behind the wheel with more than 0.08 percent blood-alcohol...
August 15, 2018
A team of researchers across the nation have carried out a study on the effects of cannabis decriminalization on youth cannabis consumption. The study was led by Washington University with the aim of squashing prohibitionist rhetoric that says decriminalization encourages consumption. The results...
August 10, 2018
California might be a pioneer in legal cannabis, but the quality of the pot being sold in The Golden State is not exactly up to standard. On July 1, a fresh set of state...
August 8, 2018
Thor Benson / Cannabis News Box Contributor New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is moving forward with plans to legalize social use cannabis in the state. Cuomo has appointed a...
August 4, 2018
We are more than half-way through the year and the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (WSLCB) has issued another emergency license suspension. This is the second license...
Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial
August 17, 2018
ResearchAndMarkets.com has added a report about North America’s legal cannabis industry to its offering. The report is titled "North America Cannabis: New Markets, Competitors...
Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial
August 17, 2018
Did you know that one in four college students uses a mood stabilizer or antidepressant to treat anxiety? A growing number of college students are also turning to cannabis...
Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial
August 11, 2018
Police effectiveness has not been hindered by cannabis legalization in Colorado and Washington, according to researchers at Washington State University (WSU). Factually,...
August 10, 2018
Thor Benson / Cannabis News Box Contributor Illinois has passed a bill allowing parents to give their children medical cannabis at school. The bill was signed by the state’s...
Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial
August 10, 2018
Public opinion on cannabis reform in Texas is changing for the better. Don't get carried away into thinking that The Lone Star State is going to become the next big leader...
Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial
August 7, 2018
Voters are being asked to help Tennessee’s Republican House speaker, Beth Harwell, progress to the role of governor. The GOP Governor candidate claims she is the sole...
Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial
August 5, 2018
Canada’s cannabis industry is still in its infantile stages, but the North American country is on track to becoming a world leader in legal cannabis. Having recently...
Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial
August 3, 2018
Medical cannabis is set to become available on prescription in the UK after the government approved a law to permit medicines derived from the cannabis plant. According to...
Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial
July 29, 2018
Since Canada’s Senate approved amendments to Bill C-45 (the Cannabis Act) on June 19, the legal cannabis industry has gone full steam ahead. As the world’s first industrialized...
New research found that cannabis researchers may be able to replace expensive and time-consuming extraction methods with a simple coffee maker https://t.co/BPoorRLCBq
Garbage from Washington state’s booming pot industry clogs gutters, sewers and landfills https://t.co/zgz6Pm9yga
If further studies are successful, this could open doors for groundbreaking treatments of bowel disease https://t.co/8rnrpQ11Hd
Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial
July 30, 2018
Buying legal weed in Washington is now as easy as visiting your favorite fast food joint, thanks to the recent launch of an Auburn cannabis dispensary. Joint Rivers is...
July 30, 2018
A tribe located in northern Wisconsin and the state's attorney general have settled a lawsuit, allowing the tribe to grow hemp for CBD oil. The St. Croix Chippewa Indians...
Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial
August 17, 2018
The global cannabis industry is booming. According to GrandViewResearch, it will grow at a CAGR of 34.6% from 2018-2025. By 2024, the industry will be valued at a whopping $63.5...
Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial
August 17, 2018
Tilray, a Canadian medical cannabis producer, has instituted an initial public offering (IPO) after it's NASDAQ listing application. The company joins a number of other cannabis...
Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial
August 12, 2018
Canadians may soon be sipping on the world's first cannabis-brewed beer. Inside a quaint Ontario-based laboratory, scientists have been hard at work discovering different...