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This post is part of Mashable’s Spring Cleaning Week. Just a little something to distract you from the eternal dread of constantly wiping all those fingerprints off your screen. “Stock up on Cheetos and Mt. Dew BEFORE you spark,” a local police department in Kansas recently tweeted, warning “potheads” not to drive on 4/20. While […]

Customers purchased recreational weed legally for the first time in California at A Therapeutic Alternative in East Sacramento on Jan. 1, 2018.  In the first two months of cannabis legalization, consumers bought an estimated $339 million worth of marijuana products from retailers in California, 13 percent less than state projections, according to a leading analytics […]

Where Weed Is Legal, People Use Fewer Opioids Could marijuana be a key weapon in the fight against the opioid crisis? [Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images] By Ben Schiller 1 minute Read With opioid painkillers killing more than 90 Americans a day, the search is on for alternatives that kill pain without killing the patient. Could […]

Glossary of Cannabis Vaping Hardware Like any popular activity or industry, the vaping world has developed its own unique and colorful vocabulary. To someone new to vaping, talking to a pro might sound like they are speaking a foreign language. Fear not. The most commonly used lingo isn’t that hard to learn. Take a few […]

The Biggest Names In Democratic Politics Are Increasingly Calling For Legalized Marijuana From Cory Booker’s progressive wish-list bill to Elizabeth Warren’s defending state legalization efforts to western lawmakers (and potential presidential candidates) currently overseeing that legalization, the next wave of Democrats are explicitly calling for… Read More… Powered by NewsAPI.org

Pet Releaf will be giving away airfare for two to the company’s hemp farm in eastern Colorado to a lucky retailer at Global Pet Expo in Orlando, Fla., March 21-23. Pet Releaf has an exclusive joint-partnership with the largest certified USDA organic hemp farm in the United States, according to company officials. “We’re extremely proud […]

The head of the U.S. Senate announced on Monday that he will soon be filing a bill to legalize industrial hemp and allocate federal money for cultivation of the crop. “We all are so optimistic that industrial hemp can become sometime in the future what tobacco was in Kentucky’s past,” U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch […]

According to a report by marijuana analytic group New Frontier, legalizing cannabis on the federal level would create 654,000 jobs in the immediate future and one million jobs by 2025. The move would also result in $105.6 billion in revenue between now and 2025. These are incredible numbers and as Forbes reported, “It’s clear that […]

Dispensary Employers Could Be Liable For Injuries Legal cannabis dispensaries are linked to higher levels of property crime in nearby areas, according to a nearly three-year study in Denver. The study was published online in the Journal of Primary Prevention. The researchers examined crime statistics for 481 Census block groups in Denver over 34 months […]

Cannabis Training Is Required To Meet Accessibility Laws People with disabilities make up almost 20% of the United States population and it’s likely that many teachers have taught a student with a disability. Teachers have used online video and audio tools to engage their students and it helps heighten their educational experience. If you’re creating […]