WeedLife News Network

  Biden administration officials said they’re “very aware that there are other Americans held in Russia,” and added that Whelan and Griner are “very much in our minds.” The Biden administration participated in a prisoner swap with Russia last week involving the exchange of a convicted Russian drug smuggler jailed in Connecticut for Trevor Reed a Ma

Finding high-quality cannabis seeds in Europe is about to get easier. Franchise Global Health announced that its Danish subsidiary, Rangers Pharmaceutical, will be Europe’s “first legal and registered” seed bank in Copenhagen, Denmark, according to an April 28 press release. The seed bank is home to one of the largest collections of its kind with 2

Products like wax and shatter can have THC levels up to 90 percent, and states like Washington and Colorado are looking at potency caps and product warnings. With national cannabis legalization poised to be introduced in the Senate, states that legalized recreational marijuana 10 years ago are now studying the public health implications of a variet

Last week New Jersey kicked off long-awaited recreational cannabis sales. On the first day of sales, April 21, over 12,000 customers spent nearly $2 million for cannabis, according to NJ's Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC). (Benzinga) Some worried about the availability of cannabis for both the recreational and medical markets, but there was ple

Packaging that mirrors major brands called 'unscrupulous' and potentially dangerous for children.  At first glance, there is little indication the snack-size bag of Trix is meant to get a user stoned. Every detail of the packaging has been copied from General Mills' cereal, and the company's logo even adorns the corner. But the cannabis edible rece

Growing chorus of officials want to ban officers from partaking in weed During his decade in law enforcement, AJ Jacobs fell into a trap of cracking open a beer after a long, stressful shift in the suburbs of Phoenix. Jacobs didn’t spend much time with his family — he had the “super cop” mentality to work all the time, he said. But after 11 years o

The 2022 Pennsylvania Hemp Summit ran Tuesday and Wednesday in Lancaster, featuring nearly 100 hemp growers and entrepreneurs. Industrial hemp is grown for fiber and seed. It is a different variety of the plant that produces marijuana and became regulated with marijuana in the 1950s and 1960s. Industrial hemp must maintain a concentration of the ps

The governor’s amendment would have made possession of over 2 ounces of cannabis punishable by up to six months in jail and/or a $1,000 fine. An amendment to Virginia’s Senate Bill 591, proposed by Gov. Glen Youngkin (R), would have made marijuana possession a more serious matter than it is today. However, Youngkin’s efforts fell flat because lawma

  No matter how old you are, cannabis is a fantastic aid that will help make the aging process much simpler for both men and women. Seniors are part of the fastest growing demographic of cannabis consumers. The growing population of older cannabis users find great relief in the natural benefits offered by cannabis, whether they choose CBD products

  From a strictly prohibited substance to a so-called ‘miracle drug’, clinical and cultural interest in CBD is on the rise. As the data in favour of its healing power continues to trickle in, the list of the medical conditions in which CBD could offer therapeutic relief is only getting longer. Some researchers even believe that CBD could help to ma

Cannabis retailers using Flowhub's point-of-sale platform can now offer compliant, cashless payments to customers Aeropay, the cannabis industry's leading digital payments provider, and Flowhub, the leading national cannabis point-of-sale platform for dispensaries, have announced an integration partnership to enable ACH payments via Aeropay for ove

Republican Gov. Glen Youngkin’s recent attempt to recriminalize activities involving the possession of two ounces of marijuana by adults via the enactment of an amendment to SB 591 has been defeated for the session. That effort failed on Wednesday with lawmakers’ refusal to advance the bill it was added to, SB 591. Legislators voted to re-refer SB

    The concept made its first trip through a Kreider Farms brainstorming session about six years ago. Hemp products were only an exciting idea then. Not yet a legal possibility. Eggs were a natural starting point for Kreider, which was already producing a wide range of organic and brown options. That led to a question. “Why not throw some hemp in

The Garden State raked in the green during the state’s first day of recreational marijuana sales. More than 12,000 people headed to dispensaries and bought nearly $1.9 million worth of cannabis and cannabis products, according to the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission. In the days since sales started on Thursday, lines have been steady at di

A medical marijuana company has filed a lawsuit against the Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission alleging the evaluations and scoring of medical cannabis bid applications was clouded by "conflicts of interest" and licenses were "bought and sold through closed door politics and back room deals." "If there is no wrong doing or corruption, th

Studies continually show great potential for cannabis as an effective treatment for autism. Determining the right dose, however, is proving difficult. Fewer and fewer places in the US remain where it’s still a criminal act for adults 21 and older to use cannabis. Even fewer places deny sick Americans (with the right sickness to qualify them as medi

    Kerry Trammel and Michael Yager are excited to be at the forefront of New York's recreational cannabis industry. But they're also nervous, since the market hasn't been established yet and they're not sure exactly what to expect.  Trammel, owner of The Releaf Market in Jamestown, and Yager, one of the owners of Yager Farms in Eden, are among the

Illinois could have realized an additional $600 million in revenue from recreational marijuana sales, according to an analysis by the Illinois Policy Institute. The group said it found a complicated tax system and restrictive licensing has cut into the state's revenue stream. In 2021, Illinois took in $317 million from cannabis taxes despite the de