Category Archives: Drug Test

Cannabis Catch-22

Colorado — New legislation regulating Colorado’s budding medical marijuana industry is leaving local dispensary owners and county officials in a grey area, as dispensaries try to meet a new requirement that they cultivate at least 70 percent of their cannabis on site or at an optional premises cultivation operation. A number ...

Continue Reading »

Follow The Doctor’s Orders

With the passing of Initiative 59 this spring, medical marijuana became legal in the District. Finally, the D.C. Council realized the lunacy of keeping the substance illegal for medical purposes. But GW administrators clearly still fear the reefer, because they have banned the use or possession of medical marijuana on campus. While ...

Continue Reading »

Pot Busts — Reading Between The Lines

I’ll bet a beer that most of you would have no problem finding a gin and tonic, if booze was illegal today. Guys like Al Capone would see to that.  Big Al, they say, was knocking down $60 million per year in the late 1920s from alcohol alone, during a period when our government brain trust ...

Continue Reading »

Pot Busts — Reading Between The Lines

I’ll bet a beer that most of you would have no problem finding a gin and tonic, if booze was illegal today. Guys like Al Capone would see to that.  Big Al, they say, was knocking down $60 million per year in the late 1920s from alcohol alone, during a period when our government brain trust ...

Continue Reading »

Colo. Pot Sellers Face New Growing Requirement

Central City, Colo. — Don Boring owns a grocery store, a liquor store and now, a medical marijuana dispensary. The main difference among them is that he has to produce his own pot inventory. Colorado set a Sept. 1 deadline for dispensaries to show they grow at least 70 percent ...

Continue Reading »

Colo. Pot Sellers Face New Growing Requirement

Central City, Colo. — Don Boring owns a grocery store, a liquor store and now, a medical marijuana dispensary. The main difference among them is that he has to produce his own pot inventory. Colorado set a Sept. 1 deadline for dispensaries to show they grow at least 70 percent ...

Continue Reading »

Proposed Pot Farm Angers Colo. Residents

The investor saw potential in the scrubby 67 acres tucked away amid multimillion dollar homes: He would turn the land into a vast pot farm and capitalize on the booming medical marijuana industry. But Scott Mullner, a city councilman from Laramie, Wyo., infuriated his Colorado neighbors with his plan to place ...

Continue Reading »

New Mexico Proposes Fees To Fund Cannabis Program

Albuquerque, N.M. — New Mexico is proposing an increase in fees on medical marijuana producers to help fund administration of the state’s program. The New Mexico Department of Health, which operates the program, wants to increase the application fee on would-be producers from the current $100 to $1,000 ...

Continue Reading »

It’s Not A Cannabis Car But…

Calgary company with help from local firms develops electric vehicle with body parts made from hemp Don’t call it the cannabis car, but a Calgary transportation company and its partners including some Toronto firms have developed an electric vehicle with hemp body parts. Calgary-based Motive Industries says it will unveil the design of the ...

Continue Reading »

Pot offers buzz-free pain relief — study

Smoking pot can make some of the pain go away, without the patient getting high. The finding comes from what researchers in Montreal believe to be the first outpatient clinical trial of smoked cannabis, involving 21 people with chronic neuropathic pain. The results, which included improvements in mood and sleep, were published today in the ...

Continue Reading »