The government’s announcement this week that the referendum on legalising cannabis will involve a simple yes or no answer on a draft bill raised questions about whether the result really will be binding. Justice Minister Andrew Little says it is binding, because all the parties in the coalition have agreed to pass the legislation if
Years ago, marijuana was only used as a cigarette in order to get high. But as time goes by, more and more people are learning more about this plant, which enables them to maximize its potential. Nowadays, this herb has already been used in almost everything, even in food, as reported by Very Well Health.
Santa Barbara County could become one of the nation’s leading cannabis sources, providing an opportunity for those already being squeezed out of other crops by competition and costs, based on an economist’s review of issues delivered Tuesday at the North County Economic Summit in Santa Maria. Peter Rupert, executive director of the UCSB Economic Forecast
Venture capital is upping its tolerance for cannabis investments. At DCM’s CannTech conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Casa Verde Capital Manager Partner Karan Wadhera spoke about the hurdles facing venture firms that want to invest in cannabis startups but have partners that are not yet comfortable wading into the murky legal waters. “Every major
Christy and Mark Zartler consider cannabis to be their daughter’s “rescue medicine.” Kara, 19, has severe autism and cerebral palsy, and has hurt herself — smacking and punching her face and head repeatedly — for more than a decade. Nothing, including pharmaceutical drugs, worked to calm her, until the Zartlers began illegally using medical marijuana,
A medical marijuana cultivation center in Elk Grove Village is financially banking on the state legalizing recreational marijuana — expanding its grow operation and building a lab to process marijuana products in anticipation of what will undoubtedly become a booming industry should it pass. Illinois Grown Medicine in the northwestern suburb is confident it will
A Manhattan-based investor has dropped $9 million to fund marijuana research at his alma maters—Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to the Harvard Gazette, Charles R. Broderick has donated $4.5 million to each institution to study marijuana’s effects on health and behavior. The donation is reportedly the largest private gift to benefit
ONEIDA – Come autumn, you’ll see fields of green on the Oneida reservation. Amid changing tides for hemp in Wisconsin, the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin will grow the crop this summer as part of a state pilot program geared toward exploring its myriad uses. And for the tribe, the possibilities seem endless. “It’s kind of
For years, counterfeiters have been creating and selling knockoffs of Rolex watches, Louis Vuitton handbags and Ray Ban sunglasses. Now, it’s the marijuana industry’s turn. Counterfeiters seeking to exploit the marijuana sector’s explosive growth are increasingly targeting knocking off cannabis products. To read more…
On December 20, farmers and entrepreneurs struck gold when Congress passed the The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, or the “Farm Bill.” The law uprooted hemp from the controlled substances list, approving it for industrial growth in all 50 states. Four months later, hundreds of licenses to grow and process the newly-legalized plant — otherwise