Patents in the U.S. are intended to provide the inventor with an incentive for creating and sharing their inventions. The patent-holder gets protection for their invention in the form of “exclusive rights” for a time, and during that period...
Pot tourism in the U.S. began shortly after recreational cannabis was legalized. The trouble was, visitors were left to their own devices, trying to figure out where to go and what to get and even where to legally smoke...
Lately cannabis and cryptocurrency have made strange bedfellows. Or, is it that strange? One of the struggles in the cannabis industry is dealing with money and in particular, dealing with large sums that go between contractors like a lab...
Seth Rogen has used his celebrity status to help bring awareness to cannabis, now he’s using cannabis to help raise money for Alzheimer’s. In fact, Rogen has long been an advocate for Alzheimer’s research, once testifying before Congress on...
One of the hottest topics in legal circles is marijuana. That’s because a patchwork of state laws have been built around legalizing cannabis, while the Federal government drags its heels. Even hemp, which was legalized in the 2018 Farm...
One of the loudest claims of prohibitionists for generations is that “cannabis ruins young people’s minds.” It started with the myth of marijuana as a gateway drug -- a gateway to crime, or more drugs. Turns out, cannabis isn’t...
California was a pioneer in cannabis legalization, beginning with medical marijuana legalization way back in 1996. The state had a ballot initiative as far back as 1972. But as other states have begun their own legalization efforts, they’ve increasingly...
For decades, the police have used the smell of marijuana as probable cause to search a vehicle. That may be changing, as CBD products have a similar “weedy” smell, but are now legal across the U.S., making it impossible...
How much do you spend on cannabis per month? Even if you’re wearing hemp clothes, eating seeds, using CBD lotions, and smoking every day you’re probably still not in the same ballpark as Mike Tyson. A lot of people...
The Dutch are famously tolerant, and ask any backpacker going through the continent in the 1990s who will tell you about coffee shops that dispensed marijuana at a time when prohibition was at a global peak. This, in addition...
