All posts tagged "China"

Culture

How Asian Americans for Cannabis Education is Changing the Narrative

Ophelia Chong co-founded Asian American Cannabis Education to break outdated stigmas surrounding cannabis and highlight the...

Legal

The Death Penalty for Cannabis: Which Countries Are Enforcing Right Now

Even as a legal cannabis industry emerges on a global scale, there are still countries that...

Cultivation

Origins of Cannabis: Plant Was First Domesticated 12,000 Years Ago

Researchers investigating the origins of cannabis have determined that the plant was first domesticated in what...

Culture

Growing Pot is Your Patriotic Duty

Clammy mists clung bitterly to the rolling hills of a brisk autumn morning, but the panting...

In History

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Society That Smoked Weed to Get High 2,500 Years Ago

It turns out that people have been enjoying cannabis’s psychoactive effects for thousands of years.

Economics

Coronavirus Outbreak Impacts Cannabis Industry

With half a billion people under lockdown, the coronavirus outbreak in China is virtually certain to...

Culture

Thai University Opens ‘Ganja Studies Department’

With plans to train a new generation of cultivators and entrepreneurs, the crafters of the program...

Politics

Analysis Optimistic About Progress in the Asian Cannabis Market

A new report by the British think-tank Prohibition Partners foresees a $5.8 billion cannabis market in...

Politics

China Boasts ‘Cannabis Boom’ — But Still Metes Out Death Penalty for Marijuana

China's ambition to get in on the "cannabis boom," providing hemp for the global CBD market,...

Economics

China’s Cannabis Sector Is Primed to Expand, Amid Harsh Anti-Drug Policies

A Chinese delegation to Israel is exploring cooperation in the cannabis sector, which points to the...

Politics

China, South Korea & Japan Warn Citizens Not to Consume Canadian Cannabis 

Some of the planet's most drug-intolerant governments are reacting with dismay to Canadian cannabis legalization —...

Economics

As Trade War Tensions Heighten, China’s Role in Global Cannabis Industry Increases

The global cannabis industry is increasingly dependent on factories in China's industrial zones and is facing...

Economics

Trump’s Trade Wars Hit Cannabis Businesses Hard

In a fast and furious exchange of retaliatory tariffs, Donald Trump and China’s president Xi Jinping...

Politics

Chinese Crime Networks Linked to Crackdown on CA Grow Ops

Federal agents seized about 100 homes around Northern California, which were supposedly used in grow operations...

Legal

Illegal Pot Grows Caught Using ‘Indentured Servants’

Police discovered over 50 Chinese nationals working on a pot farm in Washington, many of whom...

Economics

The Rise (& Risk?) of Chinese Hemp

China is the number one supplier of industrial hemp to the United States, meaning that "50...

Cannabis

America’s Hemp CBD Crop Arrives!

A gushing well of curative, CBD-rich hemp oil in Kentucky is bursting through federal prohibition.