Bill Weinberg

Medical

Louisiana Medical Marijuana Program Expands

Louisiana's medical marijuana program has been stalled for years and was strictly limited to begin with....

Economics

Mitch McConnell & Anti-Pot Lobbyists Criticize Speaker Pelosi Over COVID Relief Bill

Nancy Pelosi roused the ire of Mitch McConnell and anti-pot lobbyists when she defended inclusion of...

Economics

California Controversies Over ‘Social Equity’ Licenses

Equity programs for the legal cannabis industry in California are supposed to address the racial and...

CBD

Congressional Measure Allows Military to Use CBD

A new amendment to the Defense Department budget could allow service members to use CBD products—a...

Medical

Veteran Faces 5 Years in Prison for Medical Marijuana

In Alabama, a Black disabled vet was sentenced to five years for cannabis that he uses...

Legal

New Jersey Governor Plugs Legal Cannabis for Post-Pandemic Recovery

As New Jersey awaits a November ballot initiative on legalization, the state's governor invoked cannabis as...

Joint Opinions

Mexico’s Cannabis Legalization Languishes as Narco-Wars Escalate

Mexico's President López Obrador met with Trump at the White House last week to inaugurate the...

Economics

Illinois Notches Record-Breaking Cannabis Sales in June

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and historic levels of unemployment, Illinois cannabis retailers saw...

In History

Lester Grinspoon Pioneer of Cannabis Normalization Dies at 92

Cannabis advocates across the United States and the world bid a grateful farewell to Lester Grinspoon,...

Legal

Calls to Defund the Police Lead to Cannabis Decriminalization Measures

A month into the national uprising sparked by the killing of George Floyd, cities and states...

Current Events

The Cannabis Industry and the Black Lives Matter Uprising

Protests have spread across the U.S. in response to the death of George Floyd at the...

Culture

Cannabis & Artificial Intelligence: The Arrival of Robopot?

Entrepreneurs are aggressively plugging the application of artificial intelligence in everything from automating grow operations to...

Grow

Cannabis Shortages Spur New Interest in Growing at Home

Lockdowns and economic paralysis imposed by the COVID-19 outbreak are creating a new emphasis on self-sufficiency....

Economics

Canopy Grow Facility Announces Lay-Offs

Canada's largest licensed producer of cannabis, with globe-spanning operations, is shutting down two massive greenhouses in...

Politics

Brooklyn Brutality Re-Ignites Outrage Over Pot Policing in NYC

An egregious incident of police abuse in Brooklyn has gone viral on the internet and re-ignited...

Politics

Bernie Beats Biden on Pot

With the Democratic horserace having narrowed into a two-man contest, cannabis voters appear to face a...

Medical

Tod Mikuriya: Grandfather of Medical Marijuana

If there is one person with a claim to reviving the pharmacopoeia of cannabis in the...

Culture

Study: Boomers Smoking More Cannabis

What may have been a symbol of rebellion and the counterculture in youth, is increasingly seen...

Medical

Pebbles Trippet: The Activist With Her Own Legal ‘Standard’

One longtime California cannabis activist actually has a legal standard named in her honor. Pebbles Trippet...

Politics

Re-Legalize it? Herer’s Legacy Lives on in Hemp Initiative

The legendary hemp crusader Jack Herer drew up a California ballot initiative for a cannabis economy...