Dave Crabill and two business partners started small for their first foray into farming hemp, growing two strains of the now-legal cousin of marijuana on an acre along a dirt road outside the industrial city of Flint.
Cannabis has been legal in Canada for more than a year now, and according to industry players, there are still some kinks in the system.
Earlier this month, the Cannabis Council of Canada sent a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urging the federal government to consider recommendations to relieve “pain points” in the legal pot framework.
Here’s what the organization wants the government to act on:
In A24’s slick coming-of-age crime drama “Hot Summer Nights,” awkward and angsty teen Daniel (Timothée Chalamet) gets caught up with dealing weed in Cape Cod, Mass., in 1991. The film depicts the beginnings of his infatuation with cannabis and details the story of his fleeting business.
In a milestone moment for drug policy reform in America, on Wednesday morning the House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider a landmark bill to end cannabis prohibition nationwide.
ANN ARBOR, MI -- In a couple weeks, residents 21 and up will be able to walk into a store and purchase marijuana, a plant that’s long been illegal in Michigan and that remains illegal federally.
Michigan on Tuesday, for the first time ever, sanctioned the commercial sale of marijuana beginning Dec 1.
In May 2015, Gavin Newsom, then California's lieutenant governor, ventured deep into the Emerald Triangle, the state's traditional underground cannabis region and the
At AgraPharm LLC’s warehouse in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, the scent of cannabis is potent.
“What you're smelling today is about only a third of what it really smells like when we first harvest the crop,” said AgraPharm’s CEO Ed Santillan.
The hemp drying inside was harvested in October. There are rows and rows of it, stalks as big as eight feet long, hanging from orange plastic netting secured to the ceiling.
Leaders from around Florida met Tuesday afternoon to discuss the state’s budding industry: cannabis.
Fifty influential leaders from the state discussed the growing concern over medical marijuana at the Florida Priorities Summit on Tuesday at the University of Miami.
Florida is one of 33 states where residents can legally purchase medical marijuana after obtaining a card from a doctor. Ten cannabis dispensaries opened in Alachua County over the last two years.
The devil is in the details. It’s a common but important refrain. It reminds us how even the smallest facets of plans, processes and situations can derail large-scale efforts.
Such is the case facing Canada’s cannabis industry. The federal government currently requires that all cannabis products carry excise stamps — proof the appropriate taxes have been paid by the licensed producer — like those attached to tobacco packaging. These stamps are also unique to each province and territory.
TRENTON — For the second time this year, top Democratic lawmakers in New Jersey pulled the plug on legislation to legalize cannabis sales for recreational use, killing any likelihood Gov. Phil Murphy will deliver on a key campaign promise before 2021.
