SEATTLE — Stephen Damgaard uses medical marijuana for nerve damage in his spine, eating a small brownie made with cannabutter each morning. The weed in the butter comes from one of Seattle’s many medical dispensaries — an untaxed and illegal medical pot shop that up until now has been tolerated by authorities. But almost everything […]
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Marijuana Taxes Swell, Not Up In Smoke After All
Not long ago, Colorado had a disappointing first year of tax collections from marijuana. When one projects one figure, perhaps anything less is a letdown, and the first state to legalize recreational marijuana projected a bonanza. The more skimpy actual numbers lead some to sound the alarm that marijuana taxes were going up in smoke. But […]
California medical marijuana regulations might reflect laws for booze
Pushing hard to at last regulate California’s free-for-all medical marijuana industry, state lawmakers are wrestling with how a tightly regulated cannabis market would work. Increasingly, the answer looks to be a lot like the market for alcohol. Read more »
Medical Marijuana Often Mislabeled
The quality and labeling of edible medical marijuana is being called into question, according to a proof of concept study published in JAMA. Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine composed a research letter after investigating the labeling accuracy of edible medical marijuana products in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle. Using an internet directory of dispensaries, […]