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It was no surprise to Michael Di Croce when New Jersey voters approved a referendum Tuesday allowing anyone 21 and older to smoke marijuana recreationally. For two years, Di Croce, the mayor of Shamong Township, Burlington County, has been pitching his Pinelands community as a potential marijuana epicenter in anticipation of legalization. His goal

With voters in New Jersey overwhelmingly passing a bill to legalize recreational marijuana is it a sign for other states, including Pennsylvania?  “It’s money, it’s jobs, it’s justice, it’s freedom, Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman said.  Fetterman has long been an advocate for legal marijuana, but nowadays after New Jersey voters ap

There was no blue wave or red wave during Election Day, but the green wave rolled on for cannabis as voters expanded recreational use to more locations just days after the industry’s most lucrative month yet in Illinois. Illinois adult-use cannabis dispensaries generated a record $75 million in sales during October, up nearly $8 million from the pr

State Senator-elect Roland Gutierrez of San Antonio has pre-filed a bill that would legalize cannabis. The Democrat who ousted Republican Pete Flores in the State Senate District 19 race last week made the legalization of marijuana for medical and adult recreation use one of his campaign platforms.  Gutierrez says  it would result in an estimated $

Every serious grower has a set of tools that are used every day to monitor and tend to their crops. If you’re thinking about taking the step from curious cultivator to master grower, there are a handful of tools that will be essential to the plant’s success and using them on a daily basis will ensure that the next (or first) crop will be healthy an

Using cannabis-related products has become increasingly popular in North America. Scientific research has discovered a wide variety of ailments that these products could be useful for. Accordingly, the CBD market has surged.  People are now integrating CBD products into their everyday lives. When shopping for  CBD near you, visit sites like cbdoiln

The presidential election is over. While the central concern of the election was to reclaim America from the clutches of Donald Trump, addressing the pandemic that killed more than 230,000 Americans, passing some version of the COVID-19 relief bill that Senate Republicans have been holding hostage, protecting abortion and LGBTQ rights from the now-

In the short term, marijuana hinders your learning ability, but doesn’t seem to cause long-term impairment. Marijuana makes you dumb. At least according to the tired trope surrounding its use. Back in the day, stoners were considered slackers and anyone who smoked weed was on a one-way ticket to Loserville. Today, many of those stigmas have fallen

Detroit-based production company ASK-Y LLC is currently filming “Smokin’ Good,” a drama series set in the ‘world of cannabis.’ The series will follow August Good, portrayed by Shiek Mahmud-Bey, as he navigates his transition from the illicit cannabis market into the legal framework, notes a press release. “The average person has no idea what this i

While we were watching other elections, voters in South Dakota legalized marijuana. What will that mean for Minnesota? In Rock County, Minn., close to the South Dakota border, bemused officials took in the news. “It was a shocker,” said Rock County Sheriff Evan Verbrugge. “I think everybody in this area was really surprised that South Dakota voted

Down a rural farm road on the outskirts of Bergheim, 40 minutes north of San Antonio, lies the green pasture nurturing Texas' first legal hemp farm. At Texas First Hemp, visitors can take a look inside the farming operation, demystifying some of the stigma and buying samples on their way out. Owners Jennifer and Austin Ruple were some of the first

It wasn't long Wednesday morning before Don Lantis had fielded three phone calls from people wanting to go into the marijuana dispensary business with him. Lantis, the grand old man of fireworks in North Sioux City, is personally not fond of marijuana and has never used it. (He prefaced this several times by noting, "I'm 79 years old.") But it's im

The passage of medical marijuana in Mississippi by voters Tuesday is being hailed as an historic vote. Jay Czarkowski, a Boulder Colorado-based cannabis industry consultant who donated to the campaign to get medical marijuana approved in Mississippi, said his best advice to Mississippians is to become involve in the process of establishing the rule

Some analysts predict that legal weed is on its way to becoming a $9 billion market. So, not many states — or the federal government — will be able to ignore the economic benefits too much longer. While the federal government still considers marijuana to be a dangerous drug, the rest of America isn’t so crass. Five more states just legalized the le

Despite all the uncertainty surrounding the U.S. election, there’s a clear victor already: domestic cannabis companies. Leaders across the industry cheered after marijuana measures passed in all five states that had them on the ballot Tuesday -- even in deeply red parts of the country. The results buoyed the biggest U.S.-based players in the market

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has promised swift action on legislation to remove cannabis from the nation’s list of controlled substances if Democrats take control of the U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s election, according to a report from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). The Democrat from New York said in comments made

California's most iconic cannabis cultivation zones and its local outdoor growers recently received a boost to their business when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 67 into law on Sept. 30. The regulation amends Section 26063 of the Business and Professions Code while enacting a new terroir-based appellation for origin-specific products and its use of th

San Francisco’s cannabis industry is expected to hang on to a bit more green next year due to a tax break that is likely to pass next week. Supervisor Rafael Mandelman has proposed the one-year tax reprieve, delaying the implementation of the cannabis tax approved by voters in November 2018. The estimated tax break and revenue loss to The City is $