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California company develops first dual marijuana, alcohol breathalyzer test

Hound Labs, a venture backed start-up company, has created the first dual marijuanaOpens a New Window. and alcohol breathalyzer.

The dual breathalyzer will provide law enforcement and employers an instant analysis of how much THC, the chemical compound in cannabis, an individual has in their system.

“In breath were marijuana only stays for a couple of hours there is no legal precedence yet…

Hemp farming would add to economic bounty

While West Virginia continues to inch closer and closer to the implementation of legalized marijuana and the subsequent economic impact that will be felt, it continues to trail in another agricultural area: The growing of industrial hemp.

While hemp and marijuana are from the same cannabis family, they are not the same. Marijuana contains a much higher concentration of the natural chemical…

Cannabis’ Black Market Problem

California has a reputation for being one of the most cannabis-friendly places in the world. In February, though, newly elected Governor Gavin Newsom (an advocate for legal cannabis) proposed moving 150 National Guard troops to Northern California to help deal with a problem that doesn’t seem to be going away: illegal cannabis growers.

Despite legalizing cannabis for all uses in 2016,…

California Cannabis Labs Are Finding Toxic Metal in Vape Carts

Looks like it’s time to get the heavy metal out of vape carts.

Yes, the toxic, heavy metal “lead” (chemical symbol Pb) is showing up in lab tests of recreational cannabis products in California. Specifically, those disposable, pen-sized e-cigarette devices dubbed “vaporizer cartridges” or “vape carts.”

Vape carts are a surging, highly profitable new sector of legal cannabis. They let you…

LA TEAMS UP WITH TECH GROUP TO CLEAR WEED CONVICTIONS

Los Angeles prosecutors have partnered with a tech company to help ex-convicts become free of marijuana charges that no longer stand under state law.

LA-based attorneys and attorneys from nearby districts are working with tech nonprofit “Code for America” to aid those who face old marijuana convictions. Code for Americadeveloped an algorithm that speedily identifies persons who are eligible to…

CA class action suit set to proceed against county that banned marijuana grows

A class action lawsuit against a rural California county that prohibited marijuana grows after collecting taxes and fees from hundreds of cultivators is poised to proceed after a judge’s ruling that overruled objections from the county.

The lawsuit – filed last August on behalf of several hundred MJ farmers in Calaveras County – seeks the return of roughly $16 million in taxes and fees paid to…

Which States Have The Highest Taxes On Marijuana?

When comparing cannabis prices across states that have recreationally legalized, it’s easy to assume that the rates at which cannabis is taxed dictate the prices consumers are paying in dispensaries. For example, California has high tax rates for their cannabis, and also have some of the most expensive prices on the legal market.  

As an online cannabis price comparison and dispensary locator…

Researchers genetically modify yeast to ‘brew’ THC and CBD

Scientists in California have created a cheaper, safer, environmentally-friendly way to produce cannabinoids, the chemical compounds that give cannabis its many medicinal (and mind-altering) qualities. The trick is in using genetically modified brewer’s yeast to produce cannabinoids, rather than ethanol, according to research published today by the University of California, Berkeley.

The resea…

Assembly Bill 953 would allow the state, city and county tax offices in California to accept stablecoins — cryptocurrency pegged to a physical asset or a fiat currency — from cannabis-related companies seeking to pay their excise or cultivation taxes, with effect from Jan. 1, 2020. The bill further reads:

“The bill would authorize that city or county in determining that method to either accept…

Martha Stewart partners with Canadian cannabis firm

No, you’re not smoking something. Martha Stewart is really joining the cannabis craze.

The domestic diva said Thursday she is partnering with Canopy Growth Corp. to assist in developing new products that contain non-psychoactive CBD and other hemp-derived cannabinoids.

First to come will be offerings for pets. Stewart didn’t specify what those products might be.

Ontario, Canada-based…

Cannabis advocates wary as Colorado considers e-cig limits

Cannabis advocates are watching closely as Colorado lawmakers consider limits on where e-cigarettes can be used in an effort to combat rising teen use of nicotine-containing vaping devices.

A bipartisan bill getting its first hearing Wednesday would add electronic cigarettes and other vaping devices to the Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act, which restricts tobacco use at the workplace and in many…

Lawmaker: SC medical marijuana bill would empower doctors to better serve patients

COLUMBIA, S.C. – A state senator says legalizing marijuana for medicinal use in South Carolina would empower doctors to better serve their patients.

Medical professionals, military veterans and other medical marijuana advocates met Tuesday at the statehouse to support lawmakers’ efforts to pass the Compassionate Care Act. The bill would allow cannabis use for terminal, debilitating medical…

CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR WANTS NATIONAL GUARD TO HELP STRUGGLING POT INDUSTRY INSTEAD OF PROTECTING BORDERS

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is hoping to pull National Guard troops away from the U.S.-Mexico border to help protect his state’s struggling marijuana industry.

Faced with competition from a robust black market, the legal cannabis industry in California has not experienced the growth that supporters had expected. Newsom — who enjoyed hundreds of thousands in campaign donations from…

Massive Harvard Study Contradicts Anti-Pot Propaganda Told to Us for Decades

From http:// TheFreethoughtProject.com

For decades anti-marijuana and even pro-marijuana advocates have repeated a narrative about the potentially negative effects associated with smoking marijuana and the male sperm count. Smoking weed, we were told, decreases your ability to produce sperm. However, an extensive study published by none other than Harvard researchers this week, reveals quite…

Kamala Harris: ‘I Believe We Need to Legalize Marijuana’

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Monday on iHeartRadio’s “The Breakfast Club,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, voiced her support for legalizing marijuana.

However, it was with some caveats.

“Let me make this statement very clear: I believe we need to legalize marijuana,” Harris said. “Now that being said, and this is not a ‘but,’ this is an ‘and’ — and…