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Cannabis investment firm purchases small town in California

Cannabis investment firm purchases small town in California

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 6, 2017

A cannabis investment firm recently purchased a small town outside the Nevada-California border with the goal of constructing a cannabis-friendly tourist destination. Arizona-based company American...

VIDEO: States forge path through uncharted territory to legal cannabis

VIDEO: States forge path through uncharted territory to legal cannabis

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 6, 2017

USA Today reports on the growing cannabis industry and what it is like for states and patients to pioneer it.

Sessions questions Colorados cannabis regulation in letter to gov

Sessions questions Colorado’s cannabis regulation in letter to gov

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 4, 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions questioned the legitimacy of cannabis regulatory structures in a letter sent to Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper two weeks ago. In the letter, Sessions cited data from...

Majority of Americans support legalizing cannabis in some form

Majority of Americans support legalizing cannabis in some form

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 4, 2017

According to a new poll, nearly half of Americans support legalizing cannabis for social use, while a strong majority supported the idea of medical cannabis. The latest Harvard-Harris Poll survey found...

Study determines legal cannabis not a factor for traffic fatalities

Study determines legal cannabis not a factor for traffic fatalities

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 3, 2017

A study published in the American Journal of Public Health determined traffic fatality data did not significantly increase in states where cannabis is socially legal. Researchers analyzed data from...

Los Angeles to hold first Olympic Games amid legalized cannabis

Los Angeles to hold first Olympic Games amid legalized cannabis

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 3, 2017

The city of Los Angeles has reached a deal that will bring the 2028 Olympic Games to Southern California, the first time the event will be held amid an adult-use social cannabis market. While officials...

Senators new bill aims to legalize cannabis nationwide

Senator’s new bill aims to legalize cannabis nationwide

August 2, 2017

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced a bill on Tuesday which would end federal cannabis prohibition and reverse damage from the war on drugs. “Our country’s drug laws are badly broken and need to...

Tribal members weigh economic and cultural implications of cannabis

Tribal members weigh economic and cultural implications of cannabis

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 1, 2017

As indigenous tribes in Washington legalize cannabis for both social and medicinal use, Native Americans praise the economic benefits but question the cultural impact. After state voters legalized...

Medical cannabis patient requests rehearing in inequality battle of Nevada cannabis laws

Medical cannabis patient requests rehearing in inequality battle of Nevada cannabis laws

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen July 31, 2017

A medical cannabis patient in Nevada is asking the state supreme court to reconsider its refusal to end mandatory registration and fees for cardholders now that the plant is legal for social use. The...

Maine Dept. of Labor says employees cant be fired for testing positive for cannabis

Maine Dept. of Labor says employees can’t be fired for testing positive for cannabis

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen July 27, 2017

The Maine Department of Labor said the majority of businesses won’t be able to fire employees who test positive for cannabis unless employers can prove impairment on the job. Backers of the measure...

Virgin Islands senator reintroduces medical cannabis law

Virgin Islands senator reintroduces medical cannabis law

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen July 25, 2017

Sen. Terrance “Positive” Nelson  announced Thursday he submitted a bill to the legislation that would legalize medical cannabis on the U.S. Virgin Islands.  This marks the second time Nelson had...

Nevada dispensaries product dwindles as emergency measure is taken

Nevada dispensaries’ product dwindles as emergency measure is taken

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen July 11, 2017

Nevada dispensaries licensed to sell social cannabis are beginning to run out of product hardly one week after opening for business, according to the Nevada Department of Taxation. It was announced...

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