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The 5 States Most Likely to Legalize Recreational Cannabis in November 2016

September 20, 2016 at 4:34 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Recreational Marijuana

Nearly half of the US has already legalized marijuana for either medical or recreational use. This November, nine states could continue the trend. Of those nine states, five have ballot initiatives that could result in legal recreational use, including Massachusetts, Maine, Arizona and Nevada. Most significantly, California could legalize recreational use — thus making the entire West Coast a legal enclave for recreational cannabis. All the initiatives below will be voted on this November, alongside the presidential election. Here’s everything [...]

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San Francisco is Home to the Most Pot Smokers in the US

July 28, 2016 at 1:01 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

The Bay Area just reached the highest place in a recently compiled list of America’s highest cities. According to a government health organization, San Francisco is home to the greatest number of cannabis smokers in the Nation. This recent study was produced by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and discovered more than 15 percent of San Franciscans (not counting children below the age of 12) have smoked weed within the last month. Colorado and Oregon, where [...]

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Former California Prison Becoming Marijuana Grow Facility

July 13, 2016 at 1:49 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

A former California inmate facility has been approved as the location for a cannabis growing and processing operation. Last Thursday the Coalinga City Council voted on two local measures regarding marijuana, both of which have passed. The first measure, which passed in a 4-1 vote, allows compliant cannabis cultivation within city limits – effective immediately. Also passing council approval was a proposal to sell the cities dormant prison to Ocean Grown Extracts, who manufacture medical grade cannabis oil products. They [...]

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Will California be the Next State to Legalize Recreational Marijuana?

June 29, 2016 at 3:57 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Recreational Marijuana

Sean Parker, from Napster and Facebook fame, has financed and organized a rapidly-growing movement to legalize recreational cannabis in California. It was announced yesterday that a decision on whether the third-largest state in the U.S. is going to be next to legalize marijuana will officially happen in November. (Will California be the Next State to Legalize Recreational Marijuana? – Weed Finder™ News)

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5-Year-Old Battles Autism and Dravet with Cannabis Oil

January 15, 2016 at 2:52 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

For some bizarre reason, there is not a state in the US that recognizes Autism as a qualifying condition to use cannabis medically, except in the case of California where doctors can prescribe cannabis to anyone they feel will benefit medicinally. That’s not to say that activists in some states aren’t fighting and working hard to add Autism to the list, but with the endless stream of anecdotal and peer-reviewed evidence that proves that Autistic people function better using cannabis, it [...]

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Which States are Next to Legalize Marijuana?

September 19, 2015 at 11:26 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

Public opinion polls were provided by the Marijuana Policy Project based on the most recent available survey. All data on current enforcement policies and penalties were provided by NORML. These are the states where marijuana is most likely to be legalized: 1. Massachusetts Max. fine for small amount: $100 Marijuana related arrests in 2012: 2,596 Marijuana arrests per 100,000: 39 Minimum penalty classification: Civil offense Under Massachusetts’ state law, an individual can only be fined a maximum of $100 for [...]

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Legalization of Marijuana Most-Thriving Industry in U.S.

February 1, 2015 at 11:56 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

Legal marijuana is the fastest-growing industry in the United States and if the trend toward legalization spreads to all 50 states, marijuana could become larger than the organic food industry, according to a new report obtained by The Huffington Post. Researchers from The ArcView Group, a cannabis industry investment and research firm based in Oakland, California, found that the U.S. market for legal cannabis grew 74 percent in 2014 to $2.7 billion, up from $1.5 billion in 2013. The group [...]

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Baby Bash – Light Up ft. Z-Ro, Berner, Baby-E [VIDEO]

December 1, 2014 at 12:39 pm / Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Music, Recreational Marijuana

From the album, “Ronnie Rey All Day!” Available Now! iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/kjg34hb Amazon Music: http://tinyurl.com/k75c5sd Google Play: http://tinyurl.com/mvzkaw Smooth rapper Baby Bash can’t recall where he got the “Bash” moniker but his alternate name, Baby Beesh, comes from the fact he used to drive around in a Mitsubishi. Born in the Vallejo, CA, area in 1975 to a Latin mother and an Anglo father who both eventually became addicted to heroin, Baby Bash had some uncles who exposed him to all [...]

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California Hemp Gets Rolling

July 29, 2014 at 6:49 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization

Green, twenty-foot-tall fields of research hemp might be waving in the Davis breeze by the next year in a startling breakthrough for California hemp advocates who have been working for decades to grow the plant. The California Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2013 combined with the 2014 federal farm bill has unlocked the possibility of legally growing the ancient food, fuel, and fiber crop. “It’s remarkable. I’m quite thrilled,” said longtime San Francisco hemp lawyer Patrick Goggin. “We had no [...]

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