Fifty Years: How Marijuana Became Re-Legalized In America October 25, 2018 Allen St. Pierre Policy & Legal 0 Comments By Allen St.Pierre Part 10 of a year-long series, longtime cannabis law reform advocate and historian Allen St. Pierre examines monthly for Cannabis Business Executive the last fifty years of cannabis prohibition and the public advocacy efforts in America to bring… Read More→
Fifty Years: How Marijuana Became Re-Legalized In America Part 6 (1988-1992) June 20, 2018 Allen St. Pierre Policy & Legal, Spotlight 0 Comments By Allen St. Pierre Part 6 of a year-long series, longtime cannabis law reform advocate and historian Allen St. Pierre examines monthly for Cannabis Business Executive the last fifty years of cannabis prohibition and the public advocacy efforts in America to… Read More→
Smith’s Act of Contrition and the Battle to be “The Voice of the Cannabis Industry” May 1, 2018 Rob Meagher News & Insights, Op-Ed 0 Comments Over the last few weeks, there have been a number of announcements and articles that are connected to the behind the scenes posturing taking place to determine the "Voice of the Cannabis Industry". Two weeks ago, we all read about… Read More→
Housing and Urban Development a New Target for Protesting Federal Policies About Cannabis November 1, 2017 David Hodes Compliance and Regulations 0 Comments As this industry evolves, there are many issues that have gone beyond the work of activists and advocates and transitioned into legislation that advanced the industry. Stories of what advocacy organizations have been able to do – and some like… Read More→
Opioid Crisis is Focus of Medical Marijuana Advocates as Congress Considers Extending – or Ending – Program Protection in December November 1, 2017 David Hodes Compliance and Regulations 0 Comments It’s getting closer to December, which means it’s getting closer to yet another moment in which Congress could end the medical marijuana program protections for over 2 million patients in this country. That was the reason that the medical marijuana… Read More→
Industry, Legislators: Mongrel word ‘Marijuana’ No More – Let’s Call It ‘Cannabis’ August 7, 2017 David Hodes Banking, Finance & Real Estate, Compliance and Regulations, Cultivation, Packaging, Processing, Retail 1 Comment There is a slowly rising respect coming into the cannabis industry from key business sectors. Maybe it’s because of the estimated half billion dollars in state tax revenue that the industry is expected to generate this year, according to Forbes… Read More→
Hawaii’s 17 Years of Missteps in Legalization Blamed on Ambivalence, Lack of Leadership August 2, 2017 Kevin Whitton Compliance and Regulations, Hawaii, Policy & Legal 0 Comments In the year 2000, Hawaii became the first state to legalize medical cannabis through the state legislature. Act 228 created a medical cannabis registry program that allowed medical cannabis cardholders to grow their own cannabis or have a caretaker grow… Read More→
Scientists, Advocates and Political Operatives Celebrate Progress at D.C. Medical Cannabis Conference April 17, 2017 David Hodes Science and Technology 0 Comments By David Hodes The 5th annual Americans for Safe Access (ASA) Medical Unity Conference held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., April 7-11, was both a celebration of the life of the advocacy organization (now in its 15th… Read More→