One of the next frontiers in the political battles for marijuana smokers is the need to provide venues where marijuana smokers can socialize with other marijuana smokers in a marijuana-friendly lounge. Under current laws in Washington, Colorado, Oregon, and the District of Columbia, it is perfectly legal for smokers to possess specified amounts of marijuana, but they are only legally allowed to exercise their newly won freedom in their home or as a guest in someone else’s home.

If college athletes want to use marijuana, the NCAA likely won't catch them, and Treyous Jarrells is proof of that. He says he was high in almost every game he played. Now he has given up his dream of a football career for one that’s very different: He has one of 102,620 medical marijuana licenses to legally grow plants in Colorado. And he has a message for organized sports, especially football: It’s time to take marijuana off the banned-substance list.

Jarrells, 23, earned a scholarship to Colorado State University, where he averaged 5.2 yards per carry as a running back as a sophomore in 2014. Then he suddenly quit the team because he was afraid he'd finally get caught and lose his scholarship.

The cannabis sector came down from its highs on Friday as global markets plunged on heightened concerns over higher interest rates.

The Nasdaq was the hardest hit and the exchange fell more than 2.5%, while the Dow and S&P 500 dropped more than 2% each.

What to Expect Today?

This market is poised to open lower this morning as global markets are still concerned over a possible rate hike when the FOMC meets next week.

We expect the United States market to trade weak as investors wait to hear from Fed Governor Lael Brainard at 1:15pm EST. The reason why her speech is significant is because Brainard is a voting member of the FOMC and she is typically known to be a dove, meaning that she is less likely to raise interest rates.

A Jersey politician desires to know the way many individuals who use cannabis for medicinal functions have been prosecuted final 12 months, and the way a lot it has price to take them to courtroom.

Deputy Montfort Tadier has been a long-standing supporter of stress-free the legislation to permit some folks to make use of cannabis to assist alleviate ache, particularly for a number of sclerosis and most cancers victims.

He has regularly requested questions within the States about using medicinal cannabis and two years in the past unsuccessfully introduced a petition and proposition to the Home to “situation a licence to Ms Evelyn Volante for the possession of cannabis for the remedy and aid of her ache.”

Those of us who support the full legalization of marijuana are greatly benefiting from political reforms adopted during what is frequently referred to as the Progressive Era in this country.

The principal objective of the progressive movement was eliminating corruption in government, and to accomplish that goal, proponents sought ways to take down the powerful and corrupt political bosses and to provide access by ordinary Americans to the political system – a concept called direct democracy, as contrasted to representative democracy.

The $1 trillion War on Drugs launched by President Nixon in 1971 created the Mexican drug cartels, now legalizing weed is killing them.

The Mexican drug cartels are finally meeting their match as a wave of cannabis legalization efforts drastically reshapes the drug trafficking landscape in the United States. It turns out that as states legalize cannabis use and cultivation, the volume of weed brought across the border by Mexican drug cartels dramatically decreases — and is putting a dent in their cash flow.

Out here, in this unincorporated community of 30,000, there are miles of barren scrub-brush dotted with wild sunflowers. Low-slung houses sit on East Gun Powder Lane and North Cougar Drive. There’s a Walmart Supercenter, a Little Caesars, a Safeway with a small Starbucks tucked inside.

And, throughout the area, a revolt against retail marijuana sales smolders in a state awash in $1 billion of legal pot.

Four years ago, Coloradans voted to legalize marijuana for adults, and gave individual localities the opportunity to decide if they would allow retail marijuana shops.

It’s been great to see a few sports figures giving cannabis the crossover moments it needs.

In America, sports has long been great for stirring social change.

Which is why, as America argues over San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's antics, it's been great to see a few sports figures giving cannabis the crossover moments it needs—scenes that show the rest of the country a glimpse of the normalization happening in Portland, Denver and Seattle.

A brother and sister duo are the brains behind the newest arena of hedge fund management; legal cannabis-focused funds.

Morgan and Emily Paxhia lost their father to cancer in 1996, and at the time treatment via medical cannabis was mostly illegal and socially unaccepted.

The experience compelled them to jump into the marijuana space as both investors and advocates – Yahoo Business reports.

With the sale of marijuana either for recreational or medicinal purposes becoming legal in more and more states, new and existing retailers are struggling to find ways to keep track of inventory while remaining compliant with various state and federal laws.

Former Outright co-founders, a cloud-based financial management application, are tackling this problem with their next venture, Green Bits. Green Bits launched in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2015 and is an iPad-based pot-focused point of sale (POS) solution.