Cannabis California Spotted Owls Threatened by Illegal Cannabis Grows by Sophia Vida February 27, 2023 A Federal Register notice published on Feb. 23 explains how illegal cannabis grows in California are harmful to spotted owls, which are native to California. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (FWS) agency proposed the addition o...
Cannabis Arizona Weed Sales Top $1 Billion in 2022 by Sophia Vida February 27, 2023 Cannabis sales in Arizona exceeded $1 billion dollars in 2022 as the state’s recreational marijuana market experienced strong growth in its second year of sales. Total weed sales came to $1.4 billion last year, according to data...
Cannabis California Bill Would Ban Tobacco Sales to All Born After 2006 by Sophia Vida February 27, 2023 The strongest and wildest approach yet to deter teen tobacco use at the state level is taking shape. A new California bill would ban all tobacco sales for any resident born on Jan. 1, 2007 or later. Under Assembly Bill 935, cur...
Cannabis Alaska Scrubbing Hundreds of Pot Convictions from Court Database by Sophia Vida February 27, 2023 Hundreds of Alaska residents will have their prior marijuana convictions removed from the state’s online court database. That move follows an order late last month from the state Supreme Court last month, according to local m...
Cannabis Study: More Mystical Psychedelic Experiences Linked to Mental Health Improvements by Sophia Vida February 27, 2023 A new study from researchers at The Ohio State University found that, when it comes to a psychedelic experience, the more mystical the better. The analysis, based on “a machine learning analysis of data from nearly 1,000 re...
Cannabis From the Archives: Richard Belzer (1994) by Sophia Vida February 26, 2023 Richard Belzer is still pissed off, and he’s still funny as hell. The sharp-tongued comedian/actor has been holding a lamp of truth up to the dark foibles of politicians and pop culture icons for a couple of decades now, and tho...
Cannabis Cash Only’s 420 Recs: Ondine Viñao, Artist and Filmmaker by Sophia Vida February 25, 2023 This article was originally published on Cash Only. Sign up for the newsletter here and follow Cash Only on Youtube, Instagram, and Twitter. Photos by Rebekah Campbell, courtesy of Ondine Viñao. Ondine Viñao is an artist a...
Cannabis Tar Feather by Sophia Vida February 24, 2023 A desire that partly led to trying DMT for the first time. The other reason was that I was chronically depressed. Outer space seemed like a great place to explore since it was outside of the space I currently occupied. Unbound fro...
Cannabis Washington Senate Passes Bill Banning Hiring Discrimination for Pot Use by Sophia Vida February 24, 2023 The Washington Senate this week approved a bill that would protect cannabis users from pre-employment job discrimination. The measure, Senate Bill 5123, was passed by the state Senate on Wednesday by a vote of 28-21 and will now b...
Cannabis Legalization Bill Advanced in New Hampshire House by Sophia Vida February 24, 2023 Lawmakers in the New Hampshire House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to move forward with legislation that would legalize recreational cannabis in the Granite State. Members of the House voted 234-127 to advance the bill ...