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Happy 710 Day!

Happy 710 Day

You may have heard the news.. it’s 710! But aside from being July 10th, what does ‘710’ actually mean? 710 is the recognized holiday for smoking potent cannabis oil products. Just like ‘420’, ‘710’ is a term used by cannabis lovers to celebrate dabs, vapes, cartridges, and anything oil related. The number 710 actually spells ‘OIL‘ […]

Colorado Passes Bill Allowing Doctors To Recommend Medical Marijuana Instead Of Opioids

Colorado Passes Bill Allowing Doctors To Recommend Medical Marijuana Instead Of Opioids

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 […]

Las Vegas Uses Money From Cannabis Taxes To Fight Homelessness

Las Vegas Uses Money From Cannabis Taxes To Fight Homelessness

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 […]

Temporary Cannabis Tax Cut Shut Down By California Law Makers

Temporary Cannabis Tax Cut Shut Down By California Law Makers

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 […]

Joe Biden Supports Decriminalizing Marijuana

Joe Biden Supports Decriminalizing Marijuana

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 […]

Cannabis Laws In Colorado Are About To Change Big Time

Cannabis Laws In Colorado Are About To Change Big Time

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 […]

Marijuana Delivery Bill Waiting To Be Approved By Colorado Governor

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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 […]

Second Annual Hall Of Flowers Happening Now!

Second Annual Hall Of Flowers Happening Now!

Starting today April 30 to May 1, 2019, the 2nd annual Hall of Flowers trade show at Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, California, will attract cannabis brands, retailers, and practitioners to get a two-day, industry-only occasion. Praised by Sara Brittany Somerset in Forbes as welcoming a ‘hearty mixture of musicians and intellectuals, creatives and […]

California Cities Take Another Shot At Legal Marijuana Delivery Laws

California Cities Take Another Shot At Legal Marijuana Delivery Laws

California legislature recently rejected an appeal to overturn the state’s legal delivery laws, but legal marijuana delivery is still under threat from a lawsuit filed by the League of California Cities on behalf of 24 municipalities (and Santa Cruz County) against the Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC). The suit, filed earlier this month, aims a […]