medical cannabis

Marijuana industry wrestles with pesticides, safety
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017DENVER — Microscopic bugs and mildew can destroy a marijuana operation faster than any police raid. And because the crop has been illegal for so long, neither growers nor scientists have any reliable research to

Northwest Cannabis Classic looking for judges
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017C.R. Roberts with The News Tribune reports that the Northwest Cannabis Classic is seeking out judges to sample flower and edibles during its two-day stop in Tacoma this August. The event is scheduled for Aug. 28

Oregon Recreational Marijuana: Will Sales Start on October 1?
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017Oregon’s House-Senate marijuana committee is on a roll. Nine days after recommending HB 3400 (See Oregon’s New Recreational Marijuana Market for more on that), which is already on its way to the Senate—the same committee

Some thoughts on the recent JAMA cannabis report
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017Tuesday was a pretty big day for medical marijuana news. If you missed it, the Journal of the American Medical Association analyzed 79 studies into the medical potential of marijuana. From that, the reviewers concluded that

Study: Medical pot doesn’t send wrong message to youngsters
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017WASHINGTON — Since the 1970s, advocates of an aggressive drug war have maintained that any liberalization of drug laws would “send the wrong message” to kids and increase adolescent drug use. This claim has been

Paula Lauerman: The true value of medical marijuana
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017Paula Lauerman, wife of Farmer Tom Lauerman, a Vancouver medical marijuana grower, has some comments to share as the state looks at combining the medical marijuana system with the recreational system. The farm was recently

Thoughts on medical and recreational markets
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017There’s a lot of chatter going around about what will happen in the legislature with Washington’s medical marijuana structure, where it will go and whether it will be rolled into the recreational system. Several people