05 May Top Stories From The Edge – Week of May 1st

A Weekly Roundup of Stories We Found Interesting – From The Profound To The Profane

New CA Marijuana Rules Would Eliminate Free Samples
New regulations on the medical marijuana industry in California will govern everything from seed to sale. The 114 page draft rules will saddle the industry with hefty compliance expenses, bringing the cost of medical marijuana sky high. There is nothing like killing an industry with burdensome regulations. Uruguay is a great example of this.

Florida House Passes Medical Marijuana Regulations
Here is another instance of “death by regulations”. Floridians voted to legalize marijuana, just to have the government ban smoking it.

Mexican Congress Approves Use of Medical Marijuana
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, a supporter of legalization, is fully expected to approve the new law. He has gone on record as suggesting that the U.S. and Mexico must be on the same page when it comes to marijuana policies.

SEC Nails Medbox for Reporting Bogus Revenue
According to the SEC, Medbox’s much touted “record” revenue from 2014 was from illegal stock sales. Cannabis companies need discipline if they are to grow into the billion dollar industries it hopes to be.

Congress Holds Off Sessions Impending Crackdown, For Now
Medicinal marijuana business owners and patients are breathing a sigh of relief: The compromise bill this week to fund the government through September includes a provision that keeps Sessions’ hands tied by explicitly barring the DOJ from using its resources to go after marijuana growers, sellers and users in the more than two dozen states.

Stoners Guide To Kasol, Tosh and Malana
An amusing semi-fictional travelogue from two stoners go off the beaten track into a remote region of North India where it is widely known as “the marijuana hub”.