The first professional baseball team officially inked a deal with a CBD company this week. On April 7, The Chicago Cubs announced a partnership with MYND Drinks, makers of wellness and recovery beverages, which allows the hemp-based product to be the “Official CBD...

Florida-based medical cannabis doctor, Dr. Joseph Dorn, is suing state health officials for attempting to strip him of his medical license, prohibit him from prescribing medical cannabis, and charge him a $10,000 fine. Dorn was the target of an investigation in 2018,...

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas has ruled that banning cannabis users from possessing firearms is unconstitutional. The court also said the legal principle applies to the sale and transfer of guns. The win was delivered through Paola...

Lawmakers in Maryland passed legislation over the weekend to regulate commercial cannabis production and sales after months of negotiation on issues including social equity and taxation. The bill, which sets the stage for regulated recreational marijuana sales to...

Sonny Vaccaro is a middle-aged, slightly overweight marketing manager at Nike’s ailing basketball division who frequents college games across the country in search of promising players to sign on with his employer. On his way back to Nike HQ in Beaverton, Oregon, in...

The New Hampshire House of Representatives on April 7 approved bipartisan legislation to legalize cannabis for adults. The measure, House Bill 639 from Republican Representative Jason Osborne and Representative Matt Wilhelm, his Democratic colleague, was approved by...

One of the market leaders in CBD products is teaming up with a subsidiary of the world’s biggest tobacco company to seek regulatory approval for a new botanical drug.  Charlotte’s Web Holdings, a market leader in full-spectrum hemp extract wellness products, ...

As a still-young industry, many are all too familiar with the stringent compliance protocols attached to cannabis today. Cannabis retailers across the U.S. must comply with an array of rules carried down by state cannabis officials, in part to ensure they check ID and...

The last time I caught up with Wilfred star-turned-cannabis operator Jason Gann in January 2021, he was weathering the ups and downs of startup cannabis ownership.  Today, he’s continuing to survive, learn, and grow his brand, Wilfred CBD and Hemp, as well as his...

The National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) are helping to usher in a new era in sports and cannabis with a new, tentative deal.  While the deal must still be ratified by players and team governors before it’s official,...

The way we buy weed has completely transformed. Alongside a wave of legal reforms in cannabis occurring worldwide over the past decade, there has also been a marked change in how smokers select the types of flowers to enjoy. The hype machine fueling trends in cannabis...

Connecticut’s chief prosecutor announced last week that state’s attorneys have dismissed more than 1,500 pending cannabis-related criminal cases involving offenses that are no longer against the law. In a letter sent to a Connecticut legislative committee on March 31,...

The New York Cannabis Control Board approved the 99 new licenses on April 3, increasing the total provisional retail dispensary licenses for Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensaries (CAURD) to 165. “We are proud of today’s approval of 99 CAURD provisional licenses,...

Recreational marijuana sales in New Mexico totaled more than $300 million in the first year of regulated adult-use cannabis sales, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced on April 3. Lujan Grisham signed the Cannabis Regulation Act into law in April 2021,...

You are still free to get high in the “Big Sky.” That is because last week, lawmakers in Montana voted to table a bill that would have effectively dismantled the state’s new adult-use cannabis program. Republican state Sen. Keith Regier introduced Senate Bill 546 in...

After an almost three-year hiatus, acclaimed psych rock band moe. is back on the road and ready to rock. The band is currently touring the United States through the end of the year and is absolutely stoked. “People are showing up, everybody’s psyched to see Chuck...