New York state lawmakers voted late Tuesday to legalize adult-use cannabis and create the country’s second-largest recreational marijuana market, setting the stage for the Empire State to officially join 16 other states that have embraced full legalization.
New Jersey has officially become the latest state to permit recreational marijuana use.
In the “day of history and hope” that President Biden articulated in his inaugural speech, many in the cannabis industry hoped his new administration would absorb the words from our American treasure, Amanda Gorman, who told us “what ‘just is’ isn’t always justice.”
Wyoming legislators explore implementing new prohibitions on smokable hemp while moving forward with the legalization of medical cannabis in the state.
Researchers in the Midwest have successfully pooled that information despite the pandemic, creating a database designed to give farmers an idea of what to expect from their hemp cultivars in 2021 and beyond.
It’s funny to think back on the “reefer madness” era in the United States in the 1930s, a time when political leaders demonized cannabis and planted the seeds for the War on Drugs.
It’s funny to think back on the “reefer madness” era in the United States in the 1930s, a time when political leaders demonized cannabis and planted the seeds for the War on Drugs.
Hemp, the staid sister of marijuana, is becoming much more interesting
Two years after the 2018 farm bill legalized the cultivation of industrial hemp, the USDA completed work on a regulation to oversee production. Some advocates say hemp could become a profitable crop grown across the country while other analysts say comparatively low demand will limit hemp acreage to the level of a niche crop.
Cannabis had been on this list – Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs – for 59 years. After being used therapeutically for thousands of years, a historic vote at the United Nations today has now finally recognised the medicinal value of cannabis and removed it from a list of dangerous drugs which are placed under…