Online Cannabis Production Certificate Starting for Fall 2020 at Lake Superior State University
Lake Superior State University announced an online Cannabis Production certificate beginning in fall 2020. The certificate combines courses from cannabis chemistry and cannabis business in a one year certificate with a limited lab residency. The residency will be for...
Legal Cannabis Is Almost Entirely White. Here’s How To Buy Weed From Black And Brown People (And Why It Matters)
And like democracy, legalization is imperfect and undone—and requires consumers to make deliberate choices, like choosing to buy legal weed from Black and brown people. Whether by design or by neglect, this is difficult to do, which means the project is further away...
Gallup: Seven in Ten Americans Say That “Smoking Marijuana” Is Morally Acceptable
Seventy percent of Americans say that it is morally permissible for adults to “smoke marijuana,” regardless of the plant’s legal status, according to nationwide polling data compiled by Gallup. That is an increase of five percentage points since...
Study: Cannabis Associated with Reduced Opioid Use, Prolonged Benefits in Pain Patients
The daily use of cannabis by patients with chronic pain conditions is associated with prolonged improvements in subjects’ symptom management and overall quality of life, as well as sustained reductions in their use of opioids, according to longitudinal...
Four20Post: Michigan Cannabis Internet Streaming Video Show Focus On Security
ANN ARBOR – Welcome to the first Four20Post streaming video – aka Internet TV – show. Today we feature news from Rick Thompson and Jamie Cooper, plus interviews with Rudy Patros from Securatech and Kevin MacRitchie from Helios Security. So the theme is...
iHemp Hour: Barn Owl Drone Services Helps Farmers Find Male Hemp Plants
ANN ARBOR – Yup, that’s right. Barn Owl Drone Services uses drones to find male hemp plants in fields. Owners Jaron and Sarah Hinkley explain in this video how they do that. If you’re a hemp farmer, you’re going to want to see this because Barn Owl Drone can save you...
NORML Partners With Green Flower Media To Launch online Training For Cannabis Advocates
Green Flower Media, the leader in cannabis education and training has partnered with the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) to launch the Cannabis Advocacy Certificate Program, arming future policy-shapers with the expertise needed to...
High Times’ Cannabis Retail Bid Complicated By Web Of Owners, Social Equity Partners
The owner of pioneering High Times magazine is scrambling to close a marijuana retail acquisition in California that includes a tangle of owners and entities, several social equity partners and properties not yet built out. Los Angeles-based High Times Holding is...
Jamaica To Help Small Farmers Enter The Cannabis Industry
Jamaica - the country that brought the world Bob Marley - is making it easier for its small business owners and farmers to enter the cannabis industry. The Cannabis Licensing Authority of Jamaica (CLA) announced in late June that its special permit policy is in an...
Lazy Stoner Stereotype Smashed By Study Finding Marijuana Consumers Exercise More
Does marijuana ruin an exercise routine? You might be surprised. A new study of older Americans found that cannabis consumers tended to do more formal exercise and engage in more physical activities than non-consumers during the course of a four-month trial. While...
