Colorado is attempting to help tamper down the opioid crisis by enabling doctors to recommend medical marijuana for any condition meriting a painkiller prescription. Gov. Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 13 on Thursday, and the new law is scheduled to go into effect on Aug. 2, after passing through Colorado’s General Assembly. Related: Will The […]
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Commissioners in Clark County, Nevada have now passed a resolution allocating nearly $1.8 million collected from local cannabis taxes to help regrow programs specializing in providing assistance to the homeless. A little more than $930,000 of the money from cannabis taxes is going to be supplied to HELP of Southern Nevada’s rehousing services “for medically […]
An attempt to jump-start California’s accredited marijuana retailers failed to clear a key legislative committee on Thursday, likely dooming its prospects for the year since the country’s largest legal cannabis industry continues to flounder in the shadow of the illegal — and tax free — black sector. Costs for legal marijuana goods are inflated in […]
For a couple of decades, tourists in Las Vegas have dealt with a cannabis conundrum: All over the glittering town, there are shops selling marijuana — and nowhere to smoke . The Las Vegas City Council this month voted to permit existing dispensaries to apply for licenses to open eating lounges where tourists may utilize […]
Joe Biden supports decriminalizing marijuana, a Biden effort spokesman says, however the former vice president isn’t going as far as calling for it to be legalized on the federal level. “Nobody needs to be in jail for smoking marijuana,” Biden told Republicans in a Tuesday house party in Nashua, New Hampshire. Asked when the former […]
California is paying a cost for its shaky rollout of its legal marijuana marketplace. State budget documents released Thursday show the Newsom government is aggressively scaling back that which it expects to accumulate from marijuana tax revenue through June 2020 — a 223-million cut from projections only four months ago. The low income for the […]
Coloradans voted for major change in November 2012, when they accepted Amendment 64 and legalized recreational cannabis. Now Colorado lawmakers have approved changes that will prove nearly as momentous. Steps opening the state to societal pot use and cannabis delivery, in addition to approving new health conditions for medical marijuana, all passed on the Colorado […]
A bill passed from the Colorado Legislature Wednesday would permit for marijuana delivery beginning in 2020 for medical patients and in 2021 for recreational users. When signed, the bill could bring the Centennial State longer in line with current states’s marijuana laws, which in some areas permit for delivery and other things such as tasting […]
Ordering from a marijuana delivery company..it’s as simple as ordering a pizza. Throughout California, now you can have marijuana delivered to your door within minutes. However, some marijuana delivery companies are working illegally and could be delivering weed to underage kids. “That’s obviously disturbing,” said Detective Vito Ceccia of the LAPD’s Gang and Narcotics Enforcement […]