SpeedWeed, the service that delivers medical marijuana straight to your door, is being sued by the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, who is alleging that it violates Proposition D.

City Attorney Mike Feuer announced today that his office has filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction to halt SpeedWeed, alleging that Proposition D—which passed in 2013 and limits the number of dispensaries in the city—does not permit a medical marijuana business to transport, deliver or distribute medical marijuana.

Published: Feb 19, 2016, 12:52 pm

By David Migoya, The Denver Post

First use of governor's order that would destroy tainted weed over worries it contains potentially harmful pesticides

Colorado marijuana regulators Friday announced they have put a large but undisclosed number of plants and products on hold from two cultivation facilities over concerns they were treated with unapproved pesticides.

The health-and-safety advisory by the state's Marijuana Enforcement Division is the first use of an executive order by Gov. John Hickenlooper issued in November declaring pesticide-ladden pot a "public safety risk."

Green Technology Solutions, Inc., together with its 3D printing partner, 6th Dimension Technologies, today announced it is seeking a suitable manufacturer for its 3D printed, child-proof cannabis containers.

American attitudes toward cannabis have changed a lot in forty years. In the early 1970s, Richard Nixon initiated the divisive “War on Drugs”, incarcerating substance users on an unprecedented scale. Today, the legal landscape has changed. Numerous objective studies have demonstrated the relative harmlessness of cannabis, as well as its positive medicinal properties. The psychoactive drug is now legal in the states of Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska, and is used both medicinally and recreationally.

Sidelined by a workplace injury that left him with chronic back pain and already suffering from fibromyalgia and post-concussion syndrome attributed to years of playing contact sports, Rick Vrecic was taking a cocktail of prescription medication just to make it through the day.

About seven years ago, Vrecic relied on as many as five Percocets, 90 mg of morphine and two 80 mg Oxycodone pills daily. It wasn’t until after his doctor gave him a prescription for medical marijuana that his life radically improved.

“I’ve replaced (the pills) with four to five (medicinal) cookies a day, which won’t destroy my liver or stomach and won’t make me feel like a walking zombie,” he told The Villager.

Rose McGowan is in the dope game.

The “Charmed” star was overheard talking about the pot business Wednesday at the Galore magazine bash at Parlor, where guests were smoking free (non-marijuana) Hestia cigarettes.

The actress and director told us, “I’m not going into the marijuana business — I am already in it, as an investor.”

McGowan is also going to direct and produce a Western movie about a Native American girl-biker gang called “Death Valley Hell Cats,” she revealed.

“Very smart, very gritty, and not salacious,” she said. “Think ‘Easy Rider,’ but with pissed-off women.”

New Frontier, the leading Big Data provider in the cannabis industry, analyzes the high energy costs associated with cultivating marijuana in its latest report, Illuminating Cannabis: The Future of Energy in the Cannabis Industry. Marijuana is the most energy intensive agricultural crop produced in the U.S. Its production consumes one percent of the country’s electrical output at a cost of $6 billion annually, using the energy equivalent of 1.7 million homes.

A former Surgeon General of the United States of America says he wants to sell medical marijuana.

Among the list of applicants for Hawaii’s new medical marijuana dispensary system is a team of business professional including former Surgeon General, Kenneth Moritsugu. He’s not the only former top doc of the nation to support the medicinal use of one of mankind’s oldest cultivated plant species.

Former Surgeon General under President Bill Clinton, Dr. Joycelyn Elders, gave a keynote speech at the recent International Cannabis Business Conference in San Francisco on February 15. Dr. Elders was dismissed by Clinton in 1994 after disclosing her opinion that marijuana has medicinal uses.

By Romain Bonilla

Bernie Sanders’ proposal to deschedule marijuana just got a big endorsement: former Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders.

“I certainly would support” it, Dr. Elders told Marijuana Politics on Saturday. “You know, we don’t have cigarettes [in the Controlled Substances Act]. We don’t have alcohol on it,” she added, “So I think that marijuana should be removed and studied and looked at.” Dr. Joycelyn Elders was in San Francisco for the International Cannabis Business Conference where she delivered a keynote address on marijuana reform.