Recreational Marijuana

Pennsylvania Senator Dan Laughlin continues to push for marijuana legalization after announcing plans to introduce a new bill that would allow the Keystone State to join 25 others where patients can buy edibles legally. The bill seeks to broaden current law that allows patients to purchase...

People afflicted with anxiety, sleep, pain or seizures who also have access to legal recreational cannabis can and do reduce their use of prescription drugs, according to an analysis by a Cornell research team. When states legalize recreational cannabis, the volume of...

Midterm elections are coming up in 2022, and the race is heating up. On a stormy political horizon, both sides are looking at how to overcome voters' anger over inflation and Covid. Democrats' midterm strategy seems to be coming into a clearer view, as a recent poll found that most of its...

On Monday, New Jersey's regulators green-lighted the launch of the state's recreational cannabis market. The Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC) approved 34 conditional licenses and agreed that seven of the state's ten medical cannabis companies begin sales, possibly within weeks,...

Maryland's House of Delegates gave the green light to two bills in February that would allow state voters to decide in November whether to legalize recreational marijuana possession and use for adults over 21. Now, after both chambers recently passed separate measures to put the...

Perfect Union – California's largest wholly-owned cannabis company – is the first dispensary in the Napa area to get approved under the new ordinance, which allows current medicinal dispensaries to apply for expanded permits and change their state licenses for sale to recreational...

It seems that New Jerseyans will have to wait a bit longer to purchase recreational cannabis, as the state regulator for the nascent industry rejected the applications from eight medical cannabis operators - dubbed Alternative Treatment Centers and all owned by MSOs - to launch adult-use sales...

This article was originally published on Cannabis & Tech Today and appears here with permission. For centuries, cannabis prohibition did not exist at all. Thankfully, things are trending back in that direction, albeit slowly. In addition to the dozens of countries with medical cannabis laws,...

This article was originally published on The Fresh Toast and appears here with permission. Not only do states have different laws, but some airports even have different policies when it comes to marijuana and the TSA.  It seems like every few months there is an entirely new rulebook for...

As the cannabis industry keeps pushing forward, more companies are moving to list their stock on a major U.S. exchange like the NYSE or NASDAQ. The club, however, remains relatively small. Given the federal uncertainty that still surrounds cannabis in America and in most of the world, few cannabis...

Platinum Vape products are poised to launch in Arizona. Red White & Bloom Brands Inc. (CSE: RWB) (OTCQX: RWBYF), PV's parent company, confirmed Friday the receipt of regulatory approval for the brand's expansion in the Copper State. The initial offering will include Platinum's vape...

The Florida cannabis market is "quickly consolidating" and, while sequential growth has slowed, fourth-quarter flower volumes spiked 190%, according to Cantor Fitzgerald. The Thesis: "The state’s med market remains underpenetrated vs. other med markets (one-third AZ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday his proposal for a legal cannabis program across New York State. The plan calls for a new Office of Cannabis Management. This group would oversee a nascent recreational program as well as New York's current medical marijuana program. The proposal,...

Curaleaf Holdings Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) has appointed Joseph Bayern CEO. The move was confirmed along with the release of the Wakefield, Massachusetts-based company's latest earnings report.  Bayern, who was appointed president at Curaleaf last December, will take...

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