The company is aware of the situation.
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An Ohio mom has complained to fast food chain Wendy’s after it reportedly served her four-year old daughter fries dusted with pot. The girl said her fries “tasted funny and were yucky.”
The industry would rather see it younger.
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In Ottawa, a city public health board said the legal purchase age for REC should be 25, citing brain development. Bruce Linton, CEO of major grower Tweed, said the age should be 19, same as the drinking age in most of Canada.
Prohibition is part of the international order.
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As Canada moves to legalize it has two options regarding international treaties to which it is a part. It could take a “ principled stand” against prohibition or quietly withdraw from the treaties and then attempt to re-enter them with exemptions. Canada being Canada, it is leaning towards the quiet approach.
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The Centers for Disease Control found that more Americans are using cannabis but the abuse rate has fallen. For additional details see here.
At the L.A. Times, Robin Abcarian looks at the links between cannabis use and psychosis.
A study found that being high decreases cannabis users’ motivation, but that it returned when they were sober.
The DEA said it would add the psychotropic tropical plant kratom, which some consider to have health benefits, to its list of schedule I substances, alongside LSD, heroin, cannabis and other drugs it considers to have no medical uses.
Israeli doctors will begin a first of its kind study to test the effects of cannabis on individuals with autism. The country also plans to start exporting MED.
New York state will expand its MED program, and allow home delivery. Crain’s New York Business asks if the state will allow the industry to thrive. Oregon licensed its first two testing labs.
This month, a Manhattan gallery owner known as Mr. Grey will host an exhibit of bongs valued between $500 and $250,000. You can see pieces from his collection on his Instagram page.
The Forward has a “ Pot Shabbat” with “Jeff the 420 Chef.” The challah, matzo balls, Brussels sprouts, potatoes and cookies were all laced.
Vice meets an Englishman who legally changed his name to “ Free Cannabis.” He planted cannabis in Glastonbury’s celebrated flower displays.
A new cannabis social network caters to seniors. Jimi Hendrix is enshrined in a new line of edibles.
The great comedian Gene Wilder died. Though it did not make the connection, The Cannabist reviewed Snozzberry, an indica dominant hybrid, named for a fruit invented by Willy Wonka. Wilder also appears to smoke weed in “Blazing Saddles.”
In California it can be even cheaper.
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A month’s supply of MED costs $1,000 in New York, three times as much as in Colorado.
Some teens like to vape pens filled with fruit flavoring. Modern Farmer visits a grow trying to get certified as pesticide free.
Responding to criticism of his escalating war on drugs, Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to leave the United Nations. CNN went inside a very crowded jail in the country. The N.Y. Times tells the story of a father and son killed in custody. The L.A. Times goes out with “ Nightcrawlers,” the journalists covering the bloodshed.
The state votes in November.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.-Mass.) said she’s “open” to REC legalization in Massachusetts.
Pennsylvania is moving aggressively to create rules for its MED industry. Major regulatory changes are coming in L.A.
Portland (Ore.) City Hall is fighting with a pot shop about a license requirement.
In SFWeekly, I said we need more weed reporters. I also spoke to HelloMD about WeedWeek and the cannabis beat.
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It’s for her sick child.
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New Mexico mom Nicole Nuñez is suing the state over “arbitrary” supply limits. Nuñez’s eight month old daughter has a seizure disorder. A Michigan judge ruled that seedlings count as plants.
The four Colorado doctors suspended for overprescribing large plant counts will have to go through administrative hearings to try and get their licenses reinstated. A judge tossed out a lawsuit they filed.
The case was an anomaly in the legal state.
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Federal prosecutors agreed to drop charges against Devontre Thomas, a 19-year who faced prosecution for being caught with a very small amount of weed at a federally run boarding school for Native Americans in Oregon.
A Massachusetts court ruled that smoking MED violated a man’s probation.
Two men face criminal charges connected with the failed attempt to open a cannabis resort on a reservation in South Dakota.
Following a robbery at a Portland dispensary, police said Oregon pot shops are not attracting a disproportionate amount of crime .
The DEA’s criteria for whether a home contains a grow operation are very broad.
The New York Times reports on Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte’s unapologetically brutal war on drugs.
In Connecticut, schoolchildren will used seized grow lights to produce food.
The Kind investigates the judging of High Times Cannabis Cups, and speaks to Max Montrose, a connoisseur and critic of the high stakes process.
Vice learns about life as a “ trim bitch” on an illegal weed farm. The money is good, but conditions aren’t and sexual harassment is a problem.
Rapper Snoop Dogg is the executive producer of the new MTV weed comedy “Mary + Jane.”
Recently retired NFL player Eugene Monroe has a new column at The Cannabist.
Frankie Schnarrs, owner of Frankie’s Sports Pub in Olympia, Wash. said he’ll continue to allow patrons to use cannabis despite a recent fine and suspended liquor license, which he’s also ignoring. “I want them to take my license from me. They can go to Hell,” he told a reporter. “Get out of here. Get off my property.”
The Guardian hangs out with three elderly British women in Amsterdam, while they try pot for the first time. They enjoyed themselves at a playground, swinging on the swings.
Artist Tony Greenhand is well paid to roll joints that resemble guns, animals and other elaborate shapes.
Leafly looks back at jazz great Louis Armstrong’s long fondness for cannabis, which he called “the gage.”
Butane extraction has reached the U.K.
That could end with legalization.
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California companies tell Inc. that a growing number of raids on businesses in California owe to asset forfeiture laws which allow authorities to seize cash and other valuables even if criminal charges aren’t filed.
An American citizen who was invasively searched at the Texas/Mexico border in 2012 will receive a $475,000 settlement but not an admission of guilt from the U.S. Border and Customs Protection agency. She previously received $1.1M from an El Paso, Texas, hospital that conducted secondary searches.
Devontre Thomas, the Oregon teen who faces a federal misdemeanor charge for possessing “about a gram” of marijuana, allegedly had it at his boarding school which is run by the federal Bureau of Indian Education. He faces up to a year in prison.
A judge in a trafficking case has ordered Yahoo to disclose how it handles deleted emails. The evidence includes emails that, according to Yahoo’s policy should not be accessible.
Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte defended war on drugs which includes offering money to those who kill drug dealers.
Masamitsu Yamamoto, a Japanese man with liver cancer died at 58 while on trial for MED possession.
A lot of cannabis is found on federal land. The mail is a popular way to send weed and other drugs.
An Alabama prison guard was charged with using a Bible to smuggle opioids into a prison.
TV personality Montel Williams was briefly detained in Germany for MED.
At 99.9 % THC, crystalline is the strongest hash in the world. It sells for $200 a gram in southern California dispensaries.
Humboldt County, Calif. will start stamping product originating in the famed growing region. John Malkovich will star as the head of a crime family in the Netflix series “ Humboldt,” inspired by Emily Brady’s book “ Humboldt: Life on America’s Marijuana Frontier.”
Hip hop star Lil’ Wayne stormed off stage 10 minutes into his set at a High Times event in southern California. High Times said it was “baffled” and “awaiting an explanation.”
Yahoo meets Jeremy Plumb, Portland’s “wizard of weed.” The Oregon State Fair will give out blue ribbons for top pot plants. A Portland director made the first professional cannabis drink commercial/video. It features a cute song.
Billionaire Richard Branson said he has smoked pot with his son and recommended that other parents do the same. Cannabis Now interviews impresario Dr. Dina, who’s not a real doctor.
Cannabis absinthe exists, but doesn’t contain THC.
The Cannabist says little gifts of weed are not a substitute for tipping.
In The Onion, Joe Biden said it breaks his heart that so many hard working Americans can only afford “shitty ditch weed.”
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And that’s the low estimate.
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The industry employs between 100,000 and 150,000 Americans according to the Marijuana Business Factbook. Ancillary businesses that don’t touch the plant account for about 40 % of jobs.
In Massachusetts, cities are awarding recommendations for state licenses to dispensaries that promise payments in return.
Canada’s Canopy Growth Corp. will list on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the first cannabis producer to trade on a major exchange. It also announced plans to start selling MED in Germany.
The IRS is auditing 30 Colorado pot companies, mainly related to large cash deposits. (Cannabis companies still struggle to find bank accounts.) Criminal charges may follow.
Lots from New Cannabis Ventures: Social network MassRoots is launching a dispensary finder to compete with Weedmaps and Leafly. Ackrell Capital, the investment bank, is starting a cannabis business accelerator called Cannavator in Oakland. Nationwide there are at least three others. Canadian grower Aphria raised $25M.
NCV founder Alan Brochstein is skeptical of Cultivation Technologies Inc. which has a big project planned in Coachella, Calif. A guest post at the site recommended that companies create budget brands for lower income customers.
Gateway incubator co-founder Carter Laren says start-ups still confront the “ghost of Nancy Reagan.”
Data firm Headset determined that the average user in Washington state spends $647 on legal cannabis per year. Marketwatch has more data from the study.
An investor is suing California edibles company Altai for spending his cash on private jets, luxury hotels and personal legal bills.
The publishing industry is putting out a slew of weed books, including the Complete Idiot’s Guide to growing.
Entrepreneur spotlights the industry in Boulder. Despite difficulties in Pueblo, Colo., businesses continue to invest big there.
A British Airways flight turned around shortly after departing London due to an unexplained cannabis smell.