Blockchain technology has the potential to become a dominant technology in our lifetime. It is increasing its footprint in our daily lives every day and is expected to play a major role in trade, business, healthcare management, and finance and more. This is not a new social media platform but a technology for exchanging value … Read more
According to a recent poll by Gallup, 64% of Americans favor legalizing the plant. When Gallup starting asking Americans the question back in 1969, only 12% of Americans were for legalizing marijuana. “The trajectory of Americans’ views on marijuana is similar to that of their views on same-sex marriage over the past couple of decades,” … Read more
Canada’s legalization of recreational cannabis has occupied much of the media attention this year, but there is a quiet movement to partially or totally legalized cannabis in a lot of countries. Another trend has to do with reclassifying cannabis as generally safe and different from synthetic, addictive narcotics like heroin. Latin America is a hotbed … Read more
The war on cannabis began on or about May 26, 1971, when President Richard Nixon told his chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, “I want a goddamn strong statement on marijuana …I mean one on marijuana that just tears the ass out of them.” The famous Nixon tapes contain recorded conversations between Nixon and his staff … Read more
For Jamaicans, cannabis, or ganja, as it is known in the island nation, has cultural and religious meaning like no other place in the world. Yet ganja remains only partially legal today owing to the paranoia of Jamaica’s early 20th century elite rulers (mostly white) who made the plant illegal in 1913 by enacting the … Read more
During the past two decades, more than half of U.S. states implemented policies that legalizes marijuana use for medical purposes. Researchers have been studying the health ramifications of this sweeping public policy decision. Now, NIDA-supported researchers have found that providing legal and practical access to marijuana may have positive impacts on opioid use. Economists Dr. … Read more
The U.S. government is dealing with an opioid epidemic of its own making. Americans make up about 4.6% of the world’s population but consume 80% of the world’s opioid supply, according to the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. Opioids offer strong pain relief and are highly addictive (to the surprise of the whole of … Read more
Earlier this year, California sent Prop 65 notices to more than 700 California-based cannabis businesses. This means cannabis businesses are required to place a warning on all products that contain chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm and could be exposed to liability for failing to warn. In this case, California deems marijuana smoke … Read more
Underneath the growing public support and booming cannabis industry, federal law still considers marijuana as illegal, even though state law may say otherwise. The administration of former President Barack Obama took a hands-off approach and left it up to the states to govern and prosecute the use of marijuana. Under Federal law, marijuana is considered … Read more
There is no shortage of iconic reference points to describe the stoner weed lifestyle: Cheech and Chong, The Grateful Dead and Bob Marley come to mind if you think about easy laughing, elation and heightened awareness. The cannabis community of the 1960s emerged out of the social and cultural upheaval that accompanied the Vietnam War … Read more