Chile, the country, not to be confused with Chili (the food), is the longest north/south oriented country in the world, stretching across 39 degrees of latitudes, giving it plenty of climates for growing cannabis, and the traditional drug of choice, coca leaf. While Chile legalized medical cannabis before any other country in Latin America and […]
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Portuguese Parliament Approves Decriminalization of Synthetic Drugs
Portugal approved the decriminalization of synthetic drugs, The Portugal News reports. Portugal has had the most liberal approach to all drugs across Europe for decades. The drug strategy, put in place in 2000 and enacted in July 2001, was initially created to reduce the HIV/AIDS toll stemming from intravenous drug use cases using a harm […]
Red Lake Nation Opens Minnesota’s First Adult-Use Dispensary
Sales of regulated adult-use cannabis began in Minnesota on Tuesday with the launch of recreational marijuana sales at a dispensary located on the Red Lake Nation’s tribal lands. The Red Lake Nation’s foray into the adult-use cannabis market on tribal lands in northwestern Minnesota coincided with the statewide legalization of recreational marijuana. Under legislation approved […]
Minnesota’s First Marijuana Shop Sees ‘Overwhelming’ Sales On Legalization’s First Day, Having To Turn Away Customers And Close Online Orders
The first—and, for now, only—recreational marijuana shop in Minnesota opened its doors on Tuesday. And the demand was intense, with the business so overwhelmed that it had to turn customers away at the store and also temporarily suspended online orders to keep up. The Red Lake Nation tribe was quick to take advantage of a […]
Maryland Marijuana Sales Reach Record High Of $87 Million In First Month Of Adult-Use Legalization
Maryland legal marijuana sales reached a record high of $87.4 million in July, the first month since the recreational market launched, state data shows. That more than doubles the sales totals for June, when medical cannabis dispensaries were only serving patients. About 100 of those existing dispensaries were cleared to service adult consumers starting July […]
Idaho Activists Continue Drive To Get Medical Cannabis Measure On 2024 Ballot
An advocacy group is determined to bring medical cannabis to Idaho, one of the last remaining states with no form of legal weed. The group is called Kind Idaho, and its supporters are currently in the process of rounding up signatures to get the proposal on next year’s ballot. Joe Evans, the treasurer for the […]
Can ‘Hempcrete’ Start A Homebuilding Revolution?
A recently published article by The Cool Down (“America’s mainstream climate brand”) detailed how hemp can be “transformed into a material called hempcrete.” “Hempcrete is a carbon-negative building material made out of hemp, which is increasingly being used in place of concrete. The biocomposite material is created from hemp shiv — the woody core of […]
Study Ranks New York City as Top Cannabis-Consuming City in the World
According to a new study, New York City consumes more cannabis out of any city in the world, at 62.3 metric tons (approximately 137,000 pounds) per year. The study, compiled as the “2023 Cannabis Global Price Index,” was conducted by health information resource CFAH, which collected data on cannabis prices from 140 cities worldwide. In […]
From the Archives: New York, Mon Amour (1979)
By Victor Bockris 1) At London’s Gatwick Airport, I went straight to the cafeteria, stationed myself at a deserted corner table, put an opium pellet on my tongue and washed it down with two cups of tepid tea, apparently a catalyst. On a jammed Laker flight to New York, I managed to read three novels […]
Un Nuevo Libro Explora la Historia Cultural y Geográfica del Cannabis: ‘Tengo Sentimientos Encontrados con la Legalización’, dice su Autor
Nota por Hernán Panessi publicada originalmente en El Planteo. Más artículos por El Planteo en High Times en Español. Síguenos en Instagram (@El.Planteo) y Twitter (@ElPlanteo). Lo que hizo el docente e investigador Chris Duvall con Cannabis es, de entrada, como para prestarle atención. Su libro, esta tesis, no antepone una matriz ideológica ni se ensancha en sus conocimientos […]