We attended an election viewing party at a San Francisco marijuana dispensary...
Members of San Francisco's budding marijuana industry celebrated the legalization of recreational weed in their state in their natural habitat — a marijuana dispensary.The night's festivities were...
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Californians overwhelmingly said yes to recreational marijuana on Election Day.Those in favor of the decision owe a big thanks to billionaire Silicon Valley fixture Sean Parker.The former Facebook...
View ArticleThis animated map shows where marijuana is legal in the US
Seven states just voted to legalize either recreational or medical marijuana. This animated map shows the whole picture of marijuana policies across the United States.Follow Tech Insider: On...
View ArticleThis map shows every state that legalized marijuana on Election Day
America is seeing green after a historic day for the legal marijuana industry.Seven states in all legalized marijuana in some form on Election Day. California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada showed...
View ArticleWhat Colorado and other states tell us about how marijuana's big election day...
After November 8, 20% of Americans now live in states that have voted to allow recreational marijuana use. Massachusetts, Nevada, and California have now joined Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska,...
View ArticleHere's when you can start legally buying weed in states that just legalized it
One in five Americans can now use marijuana legally.Seven states legalized marijuana in some form on Election Day. California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada showed up to support recreational...
View ArticleRICHARD BRANSON: The war on drugs should’ve been shut down 49 years ago
In an interview with Business Insider, Virgin Group founder and chairman Richard Branson says that the country is headed in the right direction with legalizing and decriminalizing marijuana. Produced...
View Article4 states legalized recreational weed this week — here's how they'll spend the...
Over 63 million Americans now live in states where it's legal to consume recreational weed.Americans said "yes we cannabis" on Election Day, when voters in California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada...
View ArticleThis members-only social club offers organically-grown marijuana
California dispensary HerbaBuena formed a members-only collective where participants attend monthly social clubs to interact with and sample different strains of marijuana. The collective serves as a...
View ArticleOne in 5 Americans will soon have access to fully legal marijuana
2016 was a huge year for legal marijuana.Four states — California, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Maine— all voted to fully legalize marijuana use, cultivation, distribution, and sales in the November 8...
View ArticleDenver residents can soon smoke marijuana in certain bars and restaurants — a...
The Denver Post is reporting that the nation's most pot-friendly city has passed Initiative 300, a measure that will allow businesses to apply for permits that grant marijuana "consumption areas"...
View ArticleMarijuana use has been linked with a dangerous heart condition
NEW ORLEANS— Marijuana use is associated with an almost doubled risk of developing stress cardiomyopathy, a sudden life-threatening weakening of the heart muscle, according to a new study.Cannabis fans...
View ArticleHow legal weed could help end the drug overdose epidemic
Emily Lindley’s stash of marijuana is going to be very, very secure.Lindley, a neurobiologist, is about to begin the first study ever to directly compare cannabis with an opioid painkiller (in this...
View ArticleWe went inside the best marijuana shop in America — here's what it was like
Recreational marijuana is now legal in California, where patients and enthusiasts alike can light up without a doctor's note.Once the market gets up and running, it could generate more in annual retail...
View ArticleColorado's marijuana tourism business is about to get a boost
A new law in Denver, Colorado, that allows legal weed in certain bars and restaurants could give the state's "canna-tourism" industry a big boost.On November 15th, the nation's most pot-friendly city...
View ArticleA legal snafu made medical weed tax-free in California for the entirety of 2017
Californians, break out your rolling papers.California joined three other states in legalizing recreational marijuana on Election Day. But an oversight in the text of the ballot measure gives medical...
View ArticleTrump's attorney general pick is bad news for legal marijuana
President-elect Donald Trump tapped Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to be his attorney general on Friday morning.Despite a landslide of states voting to legalize recreational and medical marijuana on...
View ArticleColorado snuffed out a law that would make it legal to use marijuana in...
A voter-approved initiative that would allow Denver residents to use marijuana in certain bars and restaurants is going up in smoke.Election Day, the nation's most pot-friendly city passed Initiative...
View ArticleHere's what Jeff Sessions — 'a drug-war dinosaur' — might do to recreational...
After voters approved eight state marijuana ballot initiatives on Election Day, more than half of the 50 states now have laws that permit the drug to be used for medical purposes – and eight now allow...
View Article'Our worst nightmare': How the Trump administration could cripple the...
DENVER (AP) — Weed is winning in the polls, with a solid majority of Americans saying marijuana should be legal. But does that mean the federal government will let dozens of state pot experiments play...
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