News

In partnership with Ilera Holistic Healthcare, the university launched ALAFIA last week, hoping to help destigmatize cannabis. Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has entered the cannabis industry, making history as the first historically black college or university to join the legal marijuana business. In partnership with Ilera Holistic Healthcare, a medical marijuana company in Pennsylvania, the university launched its hemp product line, ALAFIA, last week. The name means “inner peace” in… Read More »Southern University launches hemp product line, becomes first HBCU to legally market marijuana

The most important takeaway from President Trump’s secret recording discussing marijuana is not the fact that the 73-year-old President thinks marijuana lowers your IQ. While that’s the better headline, the bigger deal has to do with the President’s comments on cannabis and banking. The clip was captured by Lev Parnas, an associate of Trump attorney Rudolph Giuliani, who is at the center of the Ukraine scandal that led to the president’s impeachment. Parnas first broached… Read More »Trump Said Something More Important Than ‘Marijuana Lowers Your IQ’, and It Could be a Good Thing

Who could have foreseen this? Police in Chicago say an incoming traveler at Midway Airport managed to steal marijuana from one of the facility’s “Cannabis Amnesty Boxes” on Wednesday. The boxes, which were installed only weeks ago to coincide with the legalization of recreational marijuana in Illinois, are intended for departing passengers wishing to dispose of their cannabis products before boarding their flights at Midway or O’Hare. Police reportedly noticed the marijuana missing from an… Read More »Someone Robbed the “Cannabis Amnesty Box” at a Chicago Airport

▪ Waive the $75 medical card fee for patients who are veterans. ▪ Eliminate the vertically integrated business model in Florida’s medical marijuana law and undo the cap on the number of licenses. The current model maintains that a license holder must grow, process, test and sell their product without any subcontractors or middle men.  ▪ Prohibit marijuana retail facilities from producing their own products, as they are currently required to do.  ▪ Authorize patients to have more than one… Read More »Here are all the 2020 Marijuana Bills in the Florida Legislature

A Springfield marijuana dispensary is the first in the state to get approval to open a spot for people to smoke weed. Illinois Supply and Provisions plans to connect the space to its marijuana shop in downtown Springfield. The company is still working on the concept and has not set an opening date. “It’s going to be more than just a big open room where people can smoke cannabis,” said spokesman Chris McCloud. “It’s going… Read More »First Illinois Marijuana Lounge to Open in Springfield