19 Jul Top Stories From The Edge – Week of July 16th
A Weekly Roundup of Stories We Found Interesting – From The Profound To The Profane
Legalization Inundates California’s Cannabis Labs
Proposition 64 is a huge gift to the state’s tiny cannabis lab industry, which started in apartments and vans more than a decade ago and is now exploding amid record demand for testing in the nation’s largest legal cannabis market.
New Jersey Governor Doubles Dispensaries and Expands Qualifying Conditions
With hundreds of new medical patients seeking cannabis every week, Governor Phil Murphy is trying to bolster New Jersey’s MMJ program as soon as possible.
Cannabis Illicit Market Shrinking, New DEA, Homeland Security Numbers Suggest
There are no completely accurate methods to measure the size of illicit markets, no matter what is being bought and sold. There are, however, some figures that can be taken as proxies of these markets. In the case of cannabis, it could be argued that seizures and confiscations can be, in a way, interpreted as surrogates of the actual illicit market sales. And the trend is going down.
The New York Health Department Announces Support For Cannabis Legalization
New Yorkers are in favor of legalizing and regulating cannabis for adult use. On Monday, the New York Health Department released their final assessment on the impact of marijuana legalization. The report substantiates a broad range of social, economic and health benefits of cannabis legalization and a regulated adult-use market.
How Soon Is It Safe to Drive After Smoking Cannabis? California Study Aims to Find Out
How long to wait before driving after lighting up? It’s a question that researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) aim to answer with a new study. And they’re inviting members of the public to help them find out.
5 Wacky Weed Laws in States That Have Legalized Marijuana
Thirty U.S. states plus the District of Columbia have legalized medical and/or recreational marijuana, with Oklahoma becoming the latest to do so just a few weeks ago. These unusual restrictions on legal marijuana show that the U.S. cannabis industry has a long way to go before becoming fully accepted.
