Older Adults Using Cannabis To Treat Common Health Conditions
University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers report that older adults use cannabis primarily for medical purposes to treat a variety of common health conditions, including pain, sleep disturbances and psychiatric conditions like anxiety and...
FOUR20 Post: Back Story On MRA Cannabis Testing Changes
Lev Spivak and Ben Rosman, the co-owners of PSI Labs, the Ann Arbor cannabis testing lab that said it found mold in cannabis samples, will discuss their findings that lead to the Marijuana Regulatory Agency changing its testing protocols. Also on the show Tiffany...
Four20Post Live: Lab Tests That Showed Mold In Cannabis, The Back Story
On 420Post at 1 pm Wednesday Feb. 10, Lev Spivak and Ben Rosman, the co-owners of PSI Labs, the Ann Arbor cannabis testing lab that said it found mold in cannabis samples, will discuss their findings that lead to the Marijuana Regulatory Agency changing its testing...
Legal Recreational Cannabis Sales In Canada Outstrip Illicit Spending For First Time
Sales of regulated adult-use cannabis in Canada overtook illegal transactions for the first time in the third quarter of 2020, according to new Statistics Canada data. That development demonstrates the success of legalization in these early years, experts...
Opioid Deaths Fall When Cannabis Stores Rise, Analysis Suggests
The number of marijuana dispensaries in a county was negatively related to log-transformed opioid mortality rate, adjusted for age (β -0.17, 95% CI -0.23 to -0.11), reported Balázs Kovács, PhD, of Yale University School of Management in New Haven, Connecticut, and...
Cannabis Industry Trends That Could Fuel Investment Over Next 6 To 12 Months
This year is shaping up to be a pivotal one for the cannabis industry. Cannabis stocks have been climbing since the group began to show signs of profitability late last summer, with the onset of a blue wave igniting optimism around the possibility of nationwide...
Michigan Cannabis Sales Down—And The Reason May Be In Your Neighbor’s Backyard
Something has gone mysteriously missing from Michigan’s cannabis industry over the last six months: cannabis sales. After opening the state’s first adult-use stores in Dec. 2019, Michigan’s cannabis industry saw sales increase month-over-month at a sharp incline....
Virginia Lawmakers Pass Landmark Recreational Marijuana Legalization Bills
Virginia took a major step toward becoming the 16th state in the nation to legalize a recreational marijuana market and the first in the South after the House of Delegates and Senate passed different legalization bills on Friday. The differences in those bills,...
How Interstate Commerce Could Upend The Marijuana Industry
You can’t cross state lines with marijuana. Marijuana produced in one state – raw material or finished product, wholesale or retail – can’t be imported from, or exported to, another state for sale. That’s known as interstate commerce, and each state’s laws limit the...
November Sees Continued Slower Growth For Legal U.S. Cannabis Products
Growth in demand for legal cannabis products in the United States was slightly slower in November than it was in October. This continues a new trend of much softer demand growth than we saw in the spring and early summer, according to Anderson Economic Group’s...
