30 Mar Top Stories From The Edge – Week of March 26th
A Weekly Roundup of Stories We Found Interesting – From The Profound To The Profane
Trump Signs Spending Bill; Medical Marijuana Protected Through September
The spending bill’s passage and presidential signature will allow millions of medical cannabis patients and providers to breathe easier, knowing that the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer provision is in effect. It ensures that federal funds cannot be used to prevent states from implementing their own state laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession or cultivation of medical marijuana.
Small Pot Farms Are Biting the Dust
Small cannabis growers lined up by the thousands to get the coveted licenses to legally grow weed in Washington, but four years into the “green rush,” they’re finding it might be nearly impossible to actually turn a profit. Faced with the plummeting price of pot, the huge burden of complying with state regulations, and the competition with big farms that sell the majority of the state’s pot, small farms are starting to give up.
12 Influential Pro-Cannabis Politicians To Pay Attention To
There have been more and more pro-cannabis politicians voicing their support for legalization. Here’s a list of the top 12 influential pro-cannabis politicians to pay attention to.
Canada’s Golden Leaf Seeks to Carpet U.S. with Retail Marijuana Stores
The company plans franchises across the country after opening its first stores in Oregon. It’s an ambitious plan given that the patchwork of U.S. state laws has prevented companies from expanding aggressively.
Remember That Cannabis Ghost Town? Yeah, Not Happening.
The dream is dead. The World-Famous Nipton Ghost Town Cannabis Resort, heralded and hyped by the world’s media just seven months ago, has been sold to a penny-stock oil and gas company.
The Debate Over Legal Marijuana Is Also a Debate About States’ Rights
States that have legalized marijuana are embolden to defy the federal government by the Constitution’s Tenth Amendment, which declares states have authority over any matter that the Constitution has not specified is a matter for the federal government.
