I’m in Canada, and I’m having a conversation about weed. So far, everything’s tracking. But this isn’t just a casual convo — HelloMD is a startup focused on health, community and access to information, and they’re based in the U.S. (with people in SF and Colorado). And while the core business began as a way to use telemedicine to connect doctors with patients for medicinal marijuana prescriptions, HelloMD founder Pamela Hadfield tells me it’s since become something more.

As marijuana legalization looms on California’s horizon, employers are conflicted about their policies of drug testing.

If voters agree to legalize pot on November 8, business leaders and employment experts say employers can find themselves in trouble for asking an underling to pee into a cup. That common pre-work screening could violate an employee’s privacy regarding a medical condition. And, for potential employees, deciding whether to comply with drug testing often means a choice between refusing and not getting the job, or agreeing and being outed as a pot user.

Humboldt Distillery have released a cannabis-infused vodka that uses America’s first legal crop of hemp since restrictions were lifted in 2014.

According to Civilized, Humboldt County grows some of America’s most potent cannabis, but through this may be the case, it seems that it is only lending its name to the vodka as the drink itself is made using hemp.

As voters go to the polls this November, at least four states will consider ballot questions on marijuana legalization. Pending proposals in Nevada, Maine and California would authorize recreational marijuana use, while Floridians will vote on whether to allow medical marijuana use.

The Southern California Cannabis Conference & Expo has announced that acclaimed artist and international known Star, Whoopi Goldberg will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming event taking place on August 6th and 7th at the San Diego Convention Center.

Rory Mendoza, CEO and Event Producer of Let’s Educate a Future, “ We reach for the stars and Whoopi is certainly the best representative we could ask for to represent the new face of cannabis.”

Goldberg recently entered the cannabis industry with a signature medical product line called, Whoopi and Maya, catering it towards women with business partner Maya Elisabeth.

Corporations across the nation and all over the world are pioneering new partnerships to assist convey hashish to the lots. These partnerships are enterprise oriented, however greater than ever earlier than hashish companies are additionally forging unions to actually and figuratively domesticate charitable works of their communities and past.

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With California voters poised to pass a referendum legalizing recreational marijuana use in November, the farmers supplying 758,607 residents holding medical marijuana prescriptions will now be subject to the state’s stringent agricultural water use laws.

No one knows just how big the unregulated marijuana cultivation industry is in California, but it is notorious for drying up Northern California streams, starving endangered fish, contributing to erosion, and spoiling water quality with massive amounts of pesticides and herbicides.

Generally, one of the biggest opponents of marijuana legalization in California is the law enforcement profession — but that's not without at least one big exception.

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), which describes itself as "a group of police, judges, prosecutors and other criminal justice professionals advocating for marijuana legalization," this week endorsed Proposition 64, the effort to legalize recreational cannabis in California.

This isn't a surprise, given the organization's record of pro-pot stances. But it's still cool: These cops are basically saying Smoke ’em if you got ’em.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted today to place a business tax on cannabis on the November 2016 ballot.

Today’s vote follows intense lobbying by a broad coalition including the California Cannabis Industry Association (CCIA), Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and Angeles Emeralds and comes just two weeks after the Board voted to extend the County’s existing ban on cannabis cultivation and dispensaries for one full year.  If approved by the voters, revenues would be used to support homeless services in Los Angeles County.

Over 100 groups and individuals attended today’s Board Chamber to voice their support for the proposal, including representatives from CCIA.

Netflix has given a series order to “Disjointed,” a comedy from Chuck Lorre.

The multi-camera comedy stars Kathy Bates as a lifelong marijuana-legalization advocate who realizes her dream of running a pot dispensary in Los Angeles. Working alongside Bates’s character are her son, three “budtenders” and a security guard. All are high most of the time.