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High Times going public on NASDAQ
High Times, Pot’s Most Established Brand, is Going Public
One of the oldest and biggest names in the cannabis space, High Times, is officially going public on the NASDAQ.
Published 11 hours ago on June 19, 2018
By Lisa Napoli
There’s big news on High Times’ march toward an initial public stock offering. Investors are now being offered a chance to buy a piece of Hightimes Media Corp. as part of a IPO equity crowdfunding campaign, under the SEC’s Regulation A+ (Reg A) process.
The Reg A share price will be set at $11, a ten percent discount from the anticipated opening price on Nasdaq. New to investing? No brokerage account will be needed to buy shares in the legacy brand—just a visit to hightimes.com/invest.
High Times Chief Executive Officer Adam Levin explained the decision to crowdfund before the company’s official market debut.
“We’re making history by becoming one of the first cannabis-focused companies publicly traded on the Nasdaq.”
“It was important to me that this offering be open to anyone interested in joining this historic team, not just to those with brokerage accounts,” said Levin. “We’re making history by becoming one of the first cannabis-focused companies publicly traded on the Nasdaq. We got here in no small part because of our incredible audience, who have been supporting this iconic brand for decades.”
As marijuana legalization surges ahead and interest in the industry grows nationally, Levin expects High Times and its brand will continue to grow, too.
With the money raised by the public offering, Hightimes Holding Co. plans on investing in and expanding content creation, as well as other product lines and brands such as its event productions—centered around its touring festival series, the Cannabis Cup—and High Times Records, launched last year. The business will remain focused on media, events, and lifestyle experiences tied to pot culture while remaining separate from the production or distribution of cannabis.
Close to a quarter million people receive the print edition of the magazine, which launched in 1974. Online, High Times’ websites attract 275 million monthly digital impressions—an increase of over 425% from a year ago, when Hightimes Holding Co. took controlling interest. Revenues have increased by 20% since then as well.
“It’s very rare to see an organization in a growing industry that has already established so much strength and significance—especially before the industry was even truly born,” said former President of Mexico and veteran businessman, Vicente Fox, who recently joined the Hightimes Holding Co. board of directors.
“High Times has built an empire in the dark, and with the sun finally shining there’s never been a better opportunity to join the fight,” said Fox.
High Times’ Reg A announcement comes at a time when public acceptance of cannabis use is rapidly growing around the world. Canada will legalize cannabis for adult use at a federal level later this summer. Uruguay legalized cannabis sales last year. In 2018, 12 more states in the U.S. are set to vote on legalization. Now, more than ever, people are curious to learn about the plant, its benefits, and the culture that has grown up around it.
At the time of the company’s acquisition, media analyst Samir Husni of the Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi told the San Francisco Business Chronicle, “High Times is like the North Star that all the other magazines followed… they are going to build a brand-new skyscraper.”
https://hightimes.com/news/high-times-pots-most-established-brand-going-public/
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Gofundme for epileptic kid's family
They need a money for a good lawyer and to get out of Georgia.
Gofundme already raised around $38k
Parents face charges for giving teen pot to treat seizures
By Alexandria Hein, Fox News June 2, 2018 | 9:12am
The couple maintains that marijuana kept him seizure-free for 71 days, until Twiggs County sheriff’s deputies knocked on their door and told them to stop.
The couple said they obliged, only for Brill’s seizures to return just hours later.
https://www.gofundme.com/legal-help-for-special-needs-kid
https://nypost.com/2018/06/02/parents-face-charges-for-giving-teen-pot-to-treat-seizures/
Therapist tipped off authorities
Parents face charges for giving teen pot to treat seizures
By Alexandria Hein, Fox News June 2, 2018 | 9:12am
Here's the poor kid suffering from seizures again now without his weed
A Georgia family has been torn apart after authorities placed a 15-year-old teen in a group home following a tip from his therapist that his parents gave him marijuana in an effort to control his seizures.
David Brill, whose parents Suzeanna and Matthew spent six days in jail after their arrest, allegedly suffers from near-constant seizures.
The couple maintains that marijuana kept him seizure-free for 71 days, until Twiggs County sheriff’s deputies knocked on their door and told them to stop. The couple said they obliged, only for Brill’s seizures to return just hours later.
“Within 14 hours of complying we were rushing our son to the hospital,” Suzeanna Brill told The New York Times. “And it was one of the most horrific seizures I’ve ever seen.”
In April, Brill was taken into custody by the state Department of Family and Children Services following an order from a juvenile court judge. He has been separated from his service dog, and is only allowed to communicate with his parents through phone calls and short visits, 13WMAZ.com reported.
In early May, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed a bill that adds PTSD and intractable pain to a list of medical conditions that are eligible to be treated with cannabis oil. Late-stage cancer patients and those suffering from seizure disorders are also eligible to seek cannabis oil treatment, but state law still bans growing, buying or transporting marijuana.
“Marijuana is still illegal to possess or use in the state of Georgia,” Twiggs County Sheriff Darren Mitchum said Thursday. “That includes allowing or giving it to children to ingest or smoke.”
But the Brills said they were just doing what any parent would to save their son, and that they would do it again if it meant bettering his health.
“Nothing else was working,” Suzeanna Brill told 13WMAZ. “I can’t have my kid dying because no one wants to listen.”
The Brills have started a GoFundMe page to help pay for a lawyer and move to a state where marijuana is legal.
https://nypost.com/2018/06/02/parents-face-charges-for-giving-teen-pot-to-treat-seizures/
It was a miracle for him
Couple Loses Custody, Might Face Jail Time After Giving Son Who Suffered from 10 Seizures a Day Marijuana They Bought Illegally
Tim Marcin,Newsweek 7 hours ago
Desperate to treat his frequent seizures, a couple in Georgia said they gave their 15-year-old son marijuana—acquired illegally—and found that it worked in significantly reducing the number of seizures he suffered. But as a result, they're now battling to regain custody of their child, according to multiple reports this week.
The couple, Matthew and Suzeanna Brill, also potentially face jail time after being charged with reckless conduct when their child, David, tested positive for marijuana in April, according to CBS News. But the Brills have said marijuana helped David go from suffering as many as 10 seizures per day to being seizure-free for more than 70 days.
"It was a miracle for him," Matthew Brill told CBS News.
The couple said David has since been moved to a group home, and he is again suffering from frequent seizures. Despite the potential consequences, David's stepfather has said he would do it all over again because traditional pharmaceuticals weren't working for him.
"Even with the ramifications with the law, I don’t care," Matthew Brill told The New York Times this week. "For 71 days he was able to ride a bike, go play, lift weights. We were able to achieve that with David medicated not from Big Pharma, but David medicated with marijuana."
Medical marijuana is legal in a majority of states and there has been some movement toward making seizure medicine based on marijuana. A review from health officials found a drug made from the marijuana plant—not the psychoactive parts—reduced seizures in children with severe forms of epilepsy and recommended FDA approval, reported The Chicago Tribune last month.
Georgia has strict marijuana laws, however, allowing only some residents to acquire state-issued cards to obtain oils that are low in THC, the part of marijuana that gets you high. Suzeanna Brill said getting a card for David proved difficult.
"The only way he could get a medical card would be a six-year waiting list," she told CBS News.
Anecdotes like the Brill family's aside, the Epilepsy Foundation website notes there have been issues determining how much marijuana can help those who suffer from seizures because of limitations on research.
"Evidence from laboratory studies, anecdotal reports, and small clinical studies from a number of years ago suggest that cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive compound of cannabis, could potentially be helpful in controlling seizures," it reads. "Conducting studies can be difficult as researchers have limited access to marijuana due to federal regulations and even more limited access to cannabidiol."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/couple-loses-custody-might-face-145658489.html
Football player ineligible for doctor recommended CBD treatment
Georgia Teen Loses Chance to Play Football for Auburn for Using CBD Oil to Treat Epilepsy
BY DUKE LONDON ON MAY 25TH, 2018 AT 5:30 PM | UPDATED: MAY 25TH, 2018 AT 6:01 PM
A high school football player planning to walk on at Auburn University in Alabama will lose his NCAA eligibility and be unable to play because he uses medical cannabis to combat his epileptic seizures, according to a report from WGXA-TV.
C.J. Harris, a senior, was diagnosed with epilepsy in his sophomore year at Warner Robins High School in the Georgia city. The teenager was experiencing seizures with increasing frequency and, after prescriptions had not helped, he tried cannabis oil at the recommendation of his doctor.
Harris said he has not suffered seizures since he began his marijuana-based regimen on Jan. 20, 2017.
Now, cannabis use stands in the way of the young athlete’s pursuit of playing college football, potentially forcing him to choose between his health and chasing his dreams.
After leading his team to the state championship game, Harris received a preferred walk-on offer from Auburn, the college team he always hoped to play on.
The offer was a dream come true. “When I read the text that one of the [Auburn] coaches sent me, I just, I broke down,” Harris told WGXA, a broadcaster in Macon, Georgia.”Because this is my dream, and I saw everything lining up perfectly for me.”
But after Auburn staff reviewed Harris’ medical records thoroughly, and finding out about the cannabis therapy, the team informed Harris and his family that he would be ineligible to compete at the NCAA level while he was using marijuana in any form.
“You’re taking something away from a kid who’s worked so hard in his life to get there,” Harris’ father said. “And you’re just taking it away because he’s taking a medication that’s helping with his disability.”
While the CBD oil Harris uses to treat his epilepsy contains less than 0.3 percent THC, NCAA guidelines don’t allow for any of the psychoactive cannabinoid, even though other prominent sports organizations such as the World Anti-Doping Agency have removed CBD from their banned substances list.
Florida's ban on smokable medical marijuana ruled unconstitutional
A Florida judge has ruled that the state's ban on smokable medical marijuana is unconstitutional.
Leon County Circuit Court Judge Karen Gievers ruled in favor of People United for Medical Marijuana and two patients challenging the ban.
Voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2016 allowing the use of medical marijuana through vaping and in food, oils, sprays and tinctures. The Legislature last year included a provision banning it from being smoked, and Gov. Rick Scott signed the measure into law in June.
The plaintiffs argued that because the amendment's language only mentions smoking in public, users should be allowed to smoke in private.
John Morgan, who led the push to get medical marijuana legalized in Florida, was among the plaintiffs.
He tweeted after the ruling that "truth prevails."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-smokable-medical-marijuana-ban-20180525-story.html
Historical day cannabis stock debuts on Wall Street
Canadian Cannabis Giant Canopy Growth Debuts on Wall Street
5-24 will go down in history as a cannabis first.
Published 2 hours ago on May 24, 2018 By High Times
This morning, the cannabis industry has again entered into the old guard New York Stock Exchange with the market debut of Canopy Growth Corp (CGC), the largest provider of medical marijuana in Canada.
Investors clambered to get a piece of the biggest pot stock in the world now that it’s more widely available to Americans. Over a million shares traded in the first hour after market open, as shares fell from an opening price of $30.85.
But price wasn’t the most important indicator of the day, experts said, as much as the mere fact of the debut.
“An event like this is massive,” said Jason Spatafora of MarijuanaStocks.com. “When a company like Canopy goes to the New York Stock Exchange, it shines a big spotlight on this industry that’s still so young.”
Two days ago on the Toronto Stock Exchange, said Spatafora, Canopy shares traded $216 million Canadian: “It pretty much already traded that in the first hour and a half on the NYSE.”
Bruce Linton, the founding chairman and CEO of the Canadian-based corporation said in a news release, “Five years ago, as a small… start-up in the cannabis sector, we could have never imagined this historic moment.” Earlier, he’d told Bloomberg,”I think the investment community has to drop the pot jokes and talk about the investment grade opportunity.”
Industry players explained why Canopy’s move to the big board–the world’s oldest and largest stock exchange– matters to the wider mainstream acceptance of the business.
“The ability for cannabis to access real capital and markets has never happened,” said Joshua Laterman, chief executive of the National Association of Cannabis Businesses. “The industry has been historically unable to access capital because cannabis is federally illegal. This is going to bring in capital. With institutional money, comes intelligence and acceptance.” It might also goad federal lawmakers to step up on the issue of national regulation, he said.
Canopy’s already attracted mainstream attention in the form of a $245 million investment by publicly traded beverage giant Constellation Brands last fall. Now, Canopy isn’t the first Canadian cannabis company to go public on the US markets. Medical marijuana provider Cronos Group Inc. (CRON) debuted on the NASDAQ exchange in late February, marking the first time US investors could grab a direct piece of the $30 billion dollar Canadian pot industry.
Other Canadian publicly traded companies are growing, like Aurora Cannabis, which announced the acquisition ten days ago of MedReleaf. US-based MedMen is poised for a reverse takeover which will allow it to debut on the Canadian markets. This company’s parent, High Times Holding Corporation, is itself preparing for an IPO later this year.
North of the border, news coverage of pot has become routine, said consultant Steven Feldman of Canada Pot Stocks, though that was hardly the case four years ago.
Owning a piece of the pot business is its own form of activism, he explained: “People feel they’re participating in a political movement by being a shareholder in a cannabis industry.”
The business news comes as Canada poises for a major vote on the legal cannabis industry, set to take place on June 7th. Legal recreational weed sales could start as early as late summer, which some say could boost sales by $5 billion. Said industry analyst Feldman of pot’s road to acceptance, “At the end of the day, it’s always about money.”
https://hightimes.com/news/canadian-cannabis-giant-canopy-growth-debuts-on-wall-street/
New monthly high for Nevada pot sales
New monthly high for Nevada pot sales; top projections again
PUBLISHED: MAY 23, 2018, 7:04 PM • UPDATED: ABOUT 5 HOURS AGO
By The Associated Press
RENO, Nev. — Nevada marijuana sales continue to outpace projections, reaching the highest monthly total in March since recreational sales became legal last July.
The Nevada Department of Taxation said Wednesday taxable sales of adult-use marijuana topped $41 million in March, a 16 percent increase from February and 14.5 percent more than the previous monthly record of $35.8 million in December.
Taxes on medicinal and recreational pot brought in nearly $7.1 million in state revenue in March, bringing the nine-month total to $48.97 million. That amounts to 97 percent of the $50.3 million that was projected for the fiscal year, with three months still remaining.
https://www.thecannabist.co/2018/05/23/new-monthly-high-for-nevada-pot-sales-top-projections-again/104502/
Tangerine Dreams
This winner of the 2010 Cannabis Cup was created by the illustrious Barney’s Farm. A strain for connoisseurs, Tangerine Dream is the hybrid daughter of G13, Afghani, and Neville's A5 Haze. Its ability to knock out pain while increasing energy is what makes Tangerine Dream so special. While too much Tangerine Dream may leave you stuck on the couch, this strain was handcrafted to meet the demands of working medical patients. Uplifting and euphoric, it provides users with mental clarity while deeply relaxing muscles. Tangerine Dream typically flowers in 8 to 10 weeks and features a citrusy aroma.
https://www.leafly.com/news/growing/how-to-grow-tangerine-dream-marijuana
Vegas hosting Stanley Cup is good for business
The Golden Knights Winning The Stanley Cup Would Be A Disaster For Vegas Sportsbooks
By ROBBY KALLAND 05.20.18
The Vegas Golden Knights made history on Sunday afternoon when they won Game 5 of their conference finals series over the Winnipeg Jets, earning a 4-1 series win and a berth in the Stanley Cup Finals.
As an expansion team, the Golden Knights pulled off the stunning feat of making the finals in the franchise’s first year in existence, something that no one predicted entering the season. Expansion teams are supposed to be bad, with the hopes that they can pull a few foundational players out of the draft and expansion draft to give themselves something to build off of. In Vegas, the thought was they would sell off their veteran players at the trade deadline to try and acquire more draft picks and future assets, but instead, they went on a tear and became buyers at the deadline.
The result has been the story of the year in hockey and truly one of the most incredible stories in recent sports history. For Vegas residents and fans, the Golden Knights going to the Stanley Cup Finals is a Cinderella story come true. For the Vegas sportsbooks, though, it’s a nightmare.
The Golden Knights opened the season at the bottom of the Stanley Cup odds, as low as 500-1 in some books, and that has produced a massive amount of liability in the books as tons of Vegas residents purchased themselves a little lottery ticket on the Knights in support of the hometown team. Now, that crazy shot in the dark is suddenly a near pick ’em (the Knights will be favored against the Capitals and slight dogs against the Lightning) and the sportsbooks are preparing for pain if the Knights pull it off.
That’s quite the statement but the numbers seem to back it up. Each book has at least one ticket outstanding that would pay $50,000 if the Knights win and that is just the tip of the iceberg.
For anyone out there with a longshot ticket on the Golden Knights, this is the time to hedge, not to be cute and blindly support the home team. The books hope everyone rides it out and the Lightning or Capitals beat the Knights, but even if Vegas does go on to win the Cup, it could help the books long term. It’s rare for a team to repeat as Stanley Cup champs and a Year 1 win would likely create quite the market for Vegas futures in the next few years, so while they may be in for a painful June, the books (as tends to happen) still might come out on top in the long run.
https://uproxx.com/sports/las-vegas-golden-knights-stanley-cup-finals-gambling-liability-sportsbooks/
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BEWARE: if you don’t happen to overdo it and are functional, you will be feeling major munchies which is perfect for anyone dealing with appetite loss.
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States rights won 7-2
How the Supreme Court's Ruling on Sports Gambling Will Pave the Way for Marijuana Legalization
By Jacob Weindling | May 14, 2018 | 3:49pm
The Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling today, paving the way for states to legalize sports gambling. This will have massive reverberations across the country, and not just when it comes to betting on sports. This case is a distillation of the tension between state and federal governance in America. Sports gambling was illegal in the United States thanks to the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act that made Nevada the only state where someone could wager on the results of a single game.
The Supreme Court today decided that federal law violated the 10th Amendment, which was the founders’ failsafe as a way to guard against unforeseen circumstances. Effectively, the 10th Amendment means that the states have powers which are not expressly delegated to the federal government, and because the constitution doesn’t say anything about gambling on sports, seven of our nine justices agreed that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act doesn’t line up with our constitutionally stated principles. This is where marijuana legalization comes into play.
The United States federal government has declared marijuana to be a schedule one narcotic—meaning that it has “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse,” according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Other schedule one narcotics include peyote, meth and heroin—proving beyond a shadow of a doubt the utter insanity of this position. The list of states who have defied this classification is longer than those who adhere to it.
Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Nevada, California, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine have legalized it for recreational use, while Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Arkansas, Hawaii, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maryland and Florida have legalized medical marijuana. Eventually, a court will have to choose who gets to take the lead on this issue, and it’s difficult to see how banning marijuana is a power explicitly given to the federal government.
Like sports betting, the constitution didn’t leave any room for marijuana legalization, so the DEA’s position should seemingly be a 10th Amendment violation by the United States federal government. Plus, there are other cases that buttress marijuana legalization’s case on this issue. Precedent is the most important predictor of how our Supreme Court will act. Per Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on behalf of the majority opinion of the Supreme Court in New York v. United States (emphasis mine):
This case implicates one of our Nation’s newest problems of public policy, and perhaps our oldest question of constitutional law. The public policy issue involves the disposal of radioactive waste: in this case, we address the constitutionality of three provisions of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1985. The constitutional question is as old as the Constitution: it consists of discerning the proper division of authority between the Federal Government and the States. We conclude that, while Congress has substantial power under the Constitution to encourage the States to provide for the disposal of the radioactive waste generated within their borders, the Constitution does not confer upon Congress the ability simply to compel the States to do so.
So the logic would go: if the Supreme Court has already found that Congress is not allowed to order states how to dispose of their radioactive waste—a power obviously not delegated in the constitution—how can they compel states to comply with federal law on a similarly ambiguous topic? Not to mention, the Supreme Court has already deemed one federal marijuana act to be unconstitutional, and you can draw a direct line between that and current law.
The Controlled Substances Act made marijuana illegal in 1970, which had to be created because the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 was unanimously deemed unconstitutional in Leary v. United States. Marijuana prohibition is actually a very recent phenomenon, and stop me if this sounds familiar, but it arose out of a panic from Mexican immigration. The law effectively banning it in 1937 was accompanied by a litany of racist imagery and utterly insane lies. White America effectively argued that they needed to ban the drug in order to protect white women. This wasn’t some fringe belief either, as exemplified by the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (the predecessor to the DEA), Harry Anslinger, when he said:
“There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the U.S., and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.”
“Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.”
Marijuana prohibition is an explicitly racist law that has already been repudiated by most states. However, as Jeff Sessions’ Department of Justice has demonstrated, so long as federal law is in place, enforcement agencies can assert that it supersedes state law. If you’re confused, welcome to the federal government’s hypocrisy surrounding the 10th Amendment, where it states de jure should already have these rights, but in order to obtain them de facto, they must present the case to a judge.
Prior to today’s Supreme Court ruling on sports betting, 18 states already drafted bills to legalize betting on sports. The fact of the matter is that states are battling budget crunches across the country, and marijuana and gambling are the two most immediate sources of serious revenue that states can tap into. It’s crazier to keep them illegal given our hyper-inequality, low taxation and even less funding for social services. Today’s Supreme Court ruling ensures that it’s just a matter of time before some well-funded group gets in front of the highest court in the land to prove the hypocrisy and illegality of America’s marijuana prohibition once and for all.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/05/how-todays-supreme-court-ruling-permitting-sports.html
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Winners of the 2018 World Cannabis Cup
The list of winners from the 2018 World Cannabis Cup doesn’t just name the best products and plants; it is a compilation of industry leaders making their mark.
Every entry was submitted by winners of previous cannabis cups. This list is literally the best of the best.
https://hightimes.com/news/winners-of-the-2018-world-cannabis-cup/
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$700 worth of happiness from the Emerald Cup
HERE’S WHAT $700 BOUGHT ME AT THE 2017 EMERALD CUP
STONER RAMBLINGS
I finally had the chance to attend my first Emerald Cup in Santa Rosa, California, this weekend… and Disney World now ranks #2 on my list of happiest places on earth (sorry, Mickey).
In case you’re not familiar with the Emerald Cup, it’s renown as the biggest and best showcase of sun-grown cannabis in the world. For a recovering “indoor weed snob” like myself, it’s a mandatory event to attend so you can see just how incredibly good outdoor cannabis (and its byproducts) can be… not to mention the amazing community that surrounds it.
I barely contained my excitement as I bounced from booth to booth meeting farmers, learning about strains, sampling products and selectively scooping up the best flavors I could find. I say “selectively” since I set a $700 limit for myself–I could have easily spent way more if given more time and less self-control. ??
All in all I came away with 16 strains of flowers (just over 2 ounces) and 5 concentrates… not a bad haul for a single day, eh?. Check out photos of each below, then leave a comment and let me know what you scooped up at the Emerald Cup.
https://www.here4theflavor.com/2017-emerald-cup-haul/
Winners of the 2018 Central Valley Cannabis Cup
Here are all the winning products, crops, and crafts from the 2018 Sacramento Cannabis Cup
https://hightimes.com/news/winners-of-the-2018-sacramento-cannabis-cup/
Maine lawmakers override Governor to start MJ sales
Maine’s House and Senate Unite To Overcome Governor’s Veto
Today, Maine lawmakers override the governor to start adult-use marijuana sales, but the process of implementing a law voters approved in 2016 has just begun.
Published 52 mins ago on May 2, 2018 By Adam Drury
State legislators in Maine have just done something remarkable. Today, in a striking display of political will, lawmakers in both chambers of the legislature voted to override Governor LePage’s veto of a bill legalizing adult-use cannabis sales. Republican Gov. Paul LePage had long-vowed to block any recreational bill that crossed his desk. But after only a brief debate prior to the voting, Maine lawmakers were able to override the governor to start adult-use marijuana sales.
Maine’s House and Senate Unite To Overcome Governor’s Veto
According to Maine’s constitution, a veto override requires a two-thirds majority vote in both legislative chambers. Wednesday’s votes to overturn the governor’s veto of an adult-use marijuana bill easily cleared that hurdle.
In the state House, legislatures voted 109 in favor to 39 against overturning LePage’s veto. In the Senate, the margin in favor was even higher, with 28 yeas and just 8 nays.
Indeed, the only reason Maine’s legislature was able to override the veto was that the bill had initially cleared the House with a veto-proof margin of 112-34.
The success of the votes represents a significant step toward implementing the legal recreational cannabis market voters approved back in 2016. Nevertheless, it remains an initial step. And Governor LePage still has moves he can make to delay the launch of a legal retail market for cannabis.
Maine’s Governor LePage Can Still Delay Adult-Use Cannabis Sales
Back in February, it seemed LePage, a steadfast foe of legalization, was prepared to concede a small patch of ground to medical cannabis patients, if only for a short while.
On the eve of the state’s planned rollout of tough new regulations restricting access to certain medical cannabis products, LePage announced that he would wait until May to implement the changes.
Convinced that Maine’s medical cannabis program needed “improved and increased regulation,” LePage nevertheless wanted to avoid any “unnecessary confusion and complication,” he wrote in a letter to Representative Deborah Sanderson.
But LePage has always been adamantly opposed to a regulated adult-use marijuana market. In fact, this is his second veto of such a bill. In November 2017, LePage vetoed a more expansive bill that had passed the state legislature by a slimmer margin.
That is to say, state lawmakers secured a veto-proof majority only by adding further restrictions to the bill. At first, the law would have allowed cannabis clubs, permitted residents to grow up to six plants, and capped production to make the market more competitive for smaller, in-state growers.
Now, however, the bill only permits home cultivation of three plants. It also eliminates the production cap and axes the prospect of clubs.
More rules remain to be written. And the person responsible for that process is, to the chagrin of the bill’s supporters, Gov. LePage. LePage is responsible for setting up the administrative process that would set the rules and regulations for the commercial cannabis market.
Things like inspection, licensing, taxation and enforcement all have to get figured out. And Gov. LePage can slow the process significantly, simply by sitting on his hands.
Governor LePage’s veto of a popular adult-use bill and its legislative override come amid a devastating opioid epidemic that killed over 400 people in Maine in 2017. Legalization is one way to combat the deadly crisis. Residents who voted to legalize adult cannabis use and their representatives in office have already made that case.
But Wednesday’s override of the governor’s veto means that legal, regulated cannabis sales are an inevitability in Maine. Unfortunately, Gov. LePage still has a lot of control over the pace of the process. It could even take until Maine’s next governor takes office in 2019 to fully implement the law.
https://hightimes.com/news/maine-lawmakers-override-governor-start-adult-use-marijuana-sales/
Skookum Charlie
Skookum Charlie – Sativa
Skookum is a Chinook Jargon word that has historical use in the Pacific Northwest. It has a range of meanings, commonly associated with an English translation of "strong" or "monstrous". The word can mean "strong",[1] "greatest", "powerful", "ultimate", or "brave". Something can be skookum, meaning "strong" or "monstrously significant". When used in reference to another person, e.g., "he's skookum", it conveys connotations of reliability or a monstrous nature, as well as strength, size or hard-working.
Skookum Charlie is a sativa dominant hybrid strain created through a cross of the powerful LSD OG X Green Crack strains. This hard to come by bud is infamous among users who favor heavy sativas because of its insane psychoactive effects and mood boosting powers. The high starts with a euphoric head rush that lifts the spirits and infuses you with a sense of frenzied creative energy. You’ll be completely focused on whatever comes your way and motivated to tackle any challenge. As this head high builds, you’ll succumb to your thoughts and have tendencies to be very introspective at times, which can cause some users to become anxious. There are absolutely zero couch-lock or lazy effects with this strain. Skookum Charlie is perfect for treating patients suffering from chronic fatigue, migraines or headaches, chronic stress, and depression.
Effects: Uplifting, Energetic, Motivating, Focused
Flavors: Lemon, Pine, Sweet
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