In Michigan, MED patient fees fund marijuana enforcement including raid equipment.
Outgoing Vermont governor Peter Shumlin (D) offered to pardon anyone convicted for possessing up to an ounce. He supported an unsuccessful effort to legalize REC through the state legislature.
In Rolling Stone, the activist and rapper Killer Mike writes on how to bring more African-Americans into the industry. For more, see my story in California Sunday.
The NFL may be warming to MED. Switzerland too may be loosening up.
Ozy talks to a combat veteran who now grows cannabis. A dispensary in Massachusetts is giving away free seeds.
Joe Dolce’s new book “ Brave New Weed” gets a fond review by Matt Taibbi in the New York Times.
Boulder Weekly published a piece called “ Marijuana and the Thinking Teenager.”
Canadian dispensary chain Cannabis Culture opened an illegal store in Montreal and gave away “ free nugs” to an approving crowd.
The L.A. Times went to the Emerald Cup in Sonoma County. It contrasts the revelers against, “a panel of entirely sober government officials [who]discussed the ramifications of marijuana legalization, California’s complex and evolving regulatory structure, and tried to answer questions about the future of the cannabis industry that seem, at this point, unanswerable.” The piece has many more great descriptions. Read the whole thing.
Some parents are upset that Amazon is sells children’s pot-leaf leggings. (I recently saw a pair, for adults, on sale in Aspen for $75.)
Now there’s CBD-infused water.
Social network MassRoots acquired online ordering platform Whaxy.
Mic put out an update on the state of cannabis investing.
