According to a recent news article from the Sacramento Bee, California Governor Jerry Brown has been working to finally get statewide regulation passed for the medical marijuana cannabis industry, which for the past 19 years has operated as if it were still the Wild West. The almost 20 years of…
With medical marijuana now legal in California and nearly half of the United States, one of the challenges that is becoming more difficult is how to handle workers who are under the influence or “high” while on-the-clock. There are a variety of ways to look at this issue. On the…
California lawmakers are looking at a variety of different options for how to regulate medical marijuana on a state level. Since 1996, when medical marijuana was first allowed in the state, counties and cities have regulated it as they deemed appropriate for their respective municipal areas. According to a recent…
Medical marijuana is now generally accepted as a legitimate and essential form of medicine in California and across the nation. However, it differs from many other forms of widely-used medications in that it is a plant and can be grown (where legal) much like any other plant. This is one…
Last year, when Congress was mulling a provision to an appropriations bill for medical marijuana, the U.S. Department of Justice interceded. Don’t do it, the DOJ warned, unless you are willing to strip this agency of all ability to enforce federal law in recreational marijuana cases too. The goal of…
Ever since the beginning of medical marijuana legalization, a central issue has vexed the industry: Banking. Because the drug remains illegal under federal law, federally-insured banks (pretty much all of them) could not open accounts for marijuana dispensaries or businesses without the risk of violating federal money laundering statutes. This…
In March 2014, an exchange student from the Republic of Congo was visiting Colorado from his host state of Wyoming when he consumed a single marijuana cookie that contained six times the recommended per-serving dose of the drug. Soon after, the 19-year-old jumped off a four-story balcony to his death.…
The conventional wisdom is that marijuana is much stronger today that it has ever been in years past. Medical marijuana is often grown using specialized strains of cannabis seeds and modern hydroponics to create the most potent marijuana possible with each crop. While this may be true on a broad…
In the past, most marijuana users smoked the drug. People used various devices, including bongs or water pipes, but these were all simply different delivery methods for marijuana smoke. While people would sometimes make baked goods with THC oil extracted from marijuana, such as the ever popular “pot brownies,” edible…
According to a recent news article from the San Francisco Gate, farmers who grow medical marijuana are now subject to huge fines for excessive water use. Unlike in years past, when marijuana growers were in constant fear of armed law enforcement agents coming onto their property with canine units and…