The Business of Cannabis

Lawsuit: How Legal California Marijuana Is Illegally Sold Nationwide—And Why The Authorities Don’t Care

Sep 26, 2021 | National

The outlaw’s Bordeaux, California cannabis has for decades fetched a premium price—and serious profit—for anyone with the chutzpah to smuggle pounds out-of-state. Marijuana legalization has not changed this. Jars featuring the familiar packaging of the West Coast’s...

U.S. House Adds Cannabis Banking to NDAA

Sep 23, 2021 | Feature, National

An amendment to the House defense authorization bill that would connect cannabis companies to the banking system has bipartisan support in both chambers, but its chances in the Senate are uncertain. Late on Tuesday evening, the House agreed by voice vote to adopt an...

Study: College Students Drank Less During Pandemic But Used Cannabis, Psychedelics At Record Highs

Sep 15, 2021 | National

A recent study published by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) found that half of United States college students ages 19-60 admitted to using weed in 2020. While that may not exactly seem like a revelatory, uh, revelation, the “Monitoring the...

Hemp Batteries Eight Times More Powerful Than Lithium, Scientists Discover

Sep 8, 2021 | Feature, National

Is there anything hemp can’t do? A year after hemp became legal to grow in the United States, we’ve seen its power to make better clothing, better buildings and better medicine. Now, there’s something else hemp appears to be better at – making...

Federal Drug Official Notes Adult-Use Marijuana Legalization Hasn’t Led To Increase In Adolescent Use

Sep 8, 2021 | National

The enactment of statewide laws regulating the adult-use cannabis market has not led to an increase in the percentage of young people experimenting with the plant, according to comments made recently by Nora Volkow, Director of the US National Institute...

Review: Cannabinoids Are an “Adequate Potential Treatment Option” for Fibromyalgia Patients

Sep 8, 2021 | National

Human trials indicate that the use of either whole-plant cannabis or cannabinoids can improve various symptoms in patients with fibromyalgia (FM) and that they possess an adequate safety profile for use in treatment, according to the findings of a literature...