California adult-use market launches Jan. 1, bringing in its wake a ban on high-potency edibles. This post from Leafly highlights the effect on popular products! Major changes to California cannabis dispensary menus—and at businesses making marijuana-infused edibles—are underway after state regulators slapped a strict limit on the amount of THC allowed in edible marijuana ... Continue Reading
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LA Gears Up to Be Major Legal Marijuana Market
Los Angeles is racing to get ready to be the biggest legal marijuana market in the world. This post from The Cannabist highlights how with about 10 million people in Los Angeles County, the market potentially eclipses entire states like Colorado and Washington. With the cannabis industry set to be legalized in California at the start of next year, the pressure is on for Los ... Continue Reading
California Urges Govt. to Reclassify Cannabis
California legislators approved a joint resolution urging Congress and the Trump administration to reclassify cannabis. This post from Forbes highlights California’s effort to take cannabis out of the restrictive Schedule I category. Last November, California voters approved a ballot measure to legalize marijuana. Now, the state's lawmakers are formally calling on the ... Continue Reading
California: New Cannabis Law Reduces Convictions
New cannabis law allows Californians, charged with a cannabis-related crime, to have their record reduced or expunged. Read more in this post from Hemp News! Thousands of cannabis convictions in California are being expunged because of state's new cannabis law. Cannabis regulation advocates, including the Drug Policy Alliance, have worked with convicts to have their records ... Continue Reading
A First-Ever Marijuana Museum Exhibition in California
California boasts of a first-ever museum exhibition focusing on marijuana, examining it from 10 different perspectives - and offering a vending machine for munchies. This post from Forbes sheds light on the weed exhibit in California. On the face of it, marijuana would seem an odd candidate for a museum exhibit. It’s illegal in most of the country, its past is controversial ... Continue Reading