After recreational marijuana was legalized in California, prosecutors expected several petitions from people looking to clear their old criminal record. However, it appears that most people didn’t even try to petition to clear their records because it was a difficult task to navigate. Now, prosecutors in the counties of Los Angeles and San Joaquin have […]

According to BDS Analytics, a leading analytics firm, consumers bought an estimated $339 million worth of marijuana products from retailers in California in the first two months of cannabis legalization, which is 13 percent less than state projections. The state has estimated that retail cannabis sales for the remaining six months of this fiscal year […]

Now that recreational marijuana is legal in California this year, some people are wondering what will be the next drug to be decriminalized in the state. Magic mushrooms may be the next drug to be decriminalized with the help of one man who has been pushing for the state to become the first to decriminalize […]

A warning for people that may overly use marijuana, it may lead to a syndrome that causes vomiting. The obscure syndrome is called cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome and it is a condition that has only recently been acknowledged by the medical community. However, it seems to affect a small population of marijuana users who smoke multiple […]

Last week, the California Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation released its first draft of the medical cannabis regulations that may eventually be enforced. The draft is 54-pages and has entered a 45-day comment period for suggestions on what should be changed to the regulations. The regulations are actually part of the Medical Cannabis Safety and […]

Two people were found dead in a Sacramento street last Sunday after an attempted home invasion on a house that was growing marijuana illegally. The incident happened on the 5900 block of 68th Street, where the two dead bodies were found lying in the middle of the road. The identities of the two people killed […]

Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times, wrote that, “a chance meeting with the governor of Colorado has left California Senate leader Kevin de León  (D-Los Angeles) with concerns about an initiative that would legalize the recreational use of marijuana in this state, he said Wednesday.” “I’m not there yet,” De León told reporters when asked his position […]

With legalization looming on the horizon, California lawmakers are already grappling over how to treat marijuana in a state with some of the strictest tobacco regulations in the country. A new bill from Assemblyman Jim Wood, D-Healdsburg, would extend to medical marijuana a 2011 law that permitted landlords to prohibit the smoking of cigarettes and […]

In an article by Wired, POT IS IN for a big change. As more states legalize the herbal commodity, the companies selling it will find themselves in stiffer and stiffer competition with one another. Of course, where there’s competition, there’s marketing—and where’s there’s marketing, there’s branding. Leafs by Snoop, Snoop Dogg’s brand new line of cannabis […]

With each marijuana plant using 6 gallons of water per day and these farms illegally diverting water, local streams and rivers are running dry according to report published in Scientific American, [A]n estimated 50,000 small pot farms. In the last decade, under the auspices of Proposition 215, which legalized marijuana for medical use, there has been […]