Category: Breaking News

Vivian Stiver, who supported a 2017 ballot initiative to ban marijuana operations in Fairbanks, needed 31 votes to be confirmed.
She received only 30, which came as a relief to members of the Alaska Marijuana Industry Association (AMIA), a trade group that campaigned against Stiver’s appointment. Reports MJ Biz

The Company has accepted the resignations of Ben Cook, Chief Operating Officer, and Lisa Sergi, General Counsel and a member of the MedMen Board of Directors.

In the book, Tilley, who also just signed for representation with CAA, provides an account about the business from where he sits in his life and career

Founder of the Malaysian Marijuana Education Movement, Mohd Zaireen Zainal, has escaped the death sentence.Instead, his charge has been reduced to one of possession of drugs.

And so it goes…..We’ll have to wait for Federal regulation to happen on the Canopy deal reports MJ Biz. Meanwhile Acreage are going to buy a company whose roots aren’t as deep as they’d like to imply.

Not our usual fare but I think we may have reached peak CBD ! The limited-time offer makes Carl’s Jr. the first national fast food chain to add CBD-infused food to its menu. In another nod to the marijuana holiday, the burger will sell for $4.20.

We’d like to ask have they no shame ? But we know it’s less of a question and more just a factual statement. The war on drugs has become the cannabis goldrush and the Republicans mass amnesia sadly surprises no one reading the tone of the following report about many members of the party in Michigan grabbing what they can as soon as they can.

South Gippsland Shire councillor Jeremy Rich doesn’t seem to be able to stay out of trouble…..he has been charged with cultivating and possessing a commercial quantity of cannabis just weeks before the Victorian Government is set to rule on the council’s fate.Cr Rich was today granted bail in the Latrobe Valley Magistrates’ Court after police on Monday raided a property in Walkerville, near Wilsons Promontory in South Gippsland, owned by his family.

NewBridge Global Ventures, Inc.has announced the appointment of Arthur H. Kwan to the Company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Kwan’s appointment is effective immediately and increases the Board’s membership to 5 directors, including 2 independent directors.

MJ Biz reports… The Denver City Council gave preliminary approval to relax rules that require marijuana social consumption businesses to operate at least 1,000 feet from schools, child care facilities, drug and alcohol treatment centers and city recreation buildings.

Deputy PM Prajin Jantong subsequently called a meeting with executives of the ONCB, “where it was made clear that marijuana extracts are likely efficacious in medical applications and that officials should refrain from taking action against those engaged in the research and development of medical marijuana.”

In 1997 he told the New York Times he opposed allowing the growth of industrial hemp because “the principal interest of the advocates is to legalize marijuana.” But now he’s on the board of Tilray.

The conservative publication with a big C is, well, getting into the green C. Past editors include Boris Johnson (1999–2005) and other former cabinet members Iain Macleod, Ian Gilmour, and Nigel Lawson.

As we all know a MOU isn’t worth the paper it is scribbled on and we presume this announcement comes out of the iCAN conference held in Hong Kong late last year. That said it makes an interesting sideshow and worth watching to see, what, if anything eventuates.

AP7 Såfa a fund portfolio managed by the state pension fund has picked up shares in Alberta-based Aurora Cannabis and Canopy in 2018, the Stockholm-based business magazine Affärsvärlden reported.

The Dutch government is to press ahead with experiments in regulated marijuana production involving 10 licenced growers, according to  detailed plans published on Thursday.

“The question as to whether or not there would be a bill more broadly, that’s something that will be announced once Cabinet has finalised its decisions,” Ms Ardern answered. 

The Greens’ David Shoebridge said, “It makes no sense to treat the consumption of cannabis as a crime.“We are wasting millions each year and missing out on licencing revenues that the state desperately needs. It’s time we stopped taking such a backward approach to a drug that over one-third of Australians have used.”

His article entitled, “How Trump could take pot legalization away from Dems in 2020” published yesterday and is penned by Robert Wasinger senior vice president, federal public affairs, for DC based McGuireWoods Consulting. He was also director of Senate and gubernatorial outreach for President Trump’s campaign. The article has been published in “The Hill”. Here’s his plan for Trump and it looks to as though he’s trying to get his old boss to take him back on the 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Apprentice for a  second season.