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Many people met their first lady dealer in High Times #1, when we interviewed “Lynne,” a young New York City artist whose frank statements on dope, dealing and sexism caused a flurry of letters to the editor and, apparently, considerable controversy in households and dealing pads across the country. Then, a year-and-a-half ago, a lady dealer seemed like an unusual creature. Now, the women’s liberation movement has fostered a new force on the dope marketing scene: a growing army of lady dealers. Able to move through all levels of society and across borders at the donning of a skirt, lady…

“I’m hoping you have in mind how much these small businesses invested… That’s going to impact their business and their investment, and the trust that businesses have for Louisiana, that’s important how we handle this and how we make these companies whole.” By Viktor Skinner, The Center Square Hundreds of hemp products approved by the Louisiana Department of Health could become illegal under an emergency rule discussed by the House Health and Welfare Committee this week. The situation has caused chaos in the state’s growing hemp industry, with entrepreneurs testifying the change could cost some hundreds of thousands of dollars…

After months of waiting, the Justice Department just went live with an online application. More than 20,000 people are eligible. Nearly five months after promising pardons for federal convictions for marijuana possession, President Biden has actually made progress on the action. Earlier this morning, the Department of Justice’s Office of the Pardon Attorney announced the publication of an application form dedicated to those who wish to redress a past federal weed conviction. Those who wish to apply can do so via the online portal here. Here’s what you’ll need to applyThe intake form asks for the usual information: Name, address,…

Right now is pretty much the perfect time to buy and smoke the 2022 full-sun outdoor cannabis crop. It’ll never be fresher, or more perfectly cured. So it’s auspicious that the Solful brand of cannabis dispensaries has just opened America’s best dispensary to buy outdoor weed. How dare we make that claim? Watch the video to learn how to do it right, competitors. Solful’s owner walks the cannabis fields in the fall, and only purchases the best pounds. Everything is laid out by effect, farm location, terpene scores, and genetic lineage—with smelling stations. Solful even custom-designed the air conditioning so…

Six years after Californians legalized weed, it remains illegal to make a grilled cheese sandwich and serve it to someone in a licensed cannabis lounge. God forbid a folk singer strums a guitar, too. Someone could report the lounge to both the local Health Department and the Entertainment Commission.But California legal cannabis laws might get less onerous this year with three proposed bills to allow prepared and served food, cannabis music events, and even licensed cannabis catering. Listen to Leafly Senior Editor David Downs explain the legal lounge landscape in the state, and the bills’ odds—part of an interview with…

The Department of Justice on Friday launched an application form that people who were covered under President Joe Biden’s mass marijuana pardon can fill out to demonstrate that they were granted clemency. In October, Biden issued a proclamation granting a pardon to people who have committed cannabis possession offenses under federal law and in Washington, D.C. The relief was automatic, but advocates have pushed officials to provide an application that people can use to obtain certificates showing they are covered. That could be useful for those whose prior convictions are preventing them from obtaining jobs or housing, for example. “Those…

Wyoming organizers behind two proposed cannabis ballot measures—one to legalize medical marijuana and another to decriminalize possession of small amounts of cannabis—say the would-be initiatives have failed to qualify for the state’s 2024 ballot. One of the primary backers of the measures, Wyoming NORML, announced this week that although campaigners collected more than enough raw signatures to meet statewide thresholds for each initiative, they appear to have fallen short of Wyoming’s requirement that gathered petitions also meet minimum percentages in two-thirds of the state’s counties. Despite the failure to qualify the would-be initiatives for next year’s ballot, organizers said in…

“To me it puts us in a very difficult situation from a health policy perspective. As soon as something happens, I would imagine somebody’s going to be looking to point fingers at who’s regulating this. I just don’t know how we could do what we’re supposed to do effectively.” By Graham Moomaw, Virginia Mercury Lawmakers have signaled they want the new Virginia Cannabis Control Authority to take over the state’s medical marijuana program and act as the main enforcer of stricter rules on cannabis-related advertising. But the authority, which is still staffing up after being established in 2021, is also…

“Today, I thought, was pathetic. It was awful. Today, all I heard were opponents against it, who were spouting a lot of reefer madness and a lot of misinformation, really prone to hyperbole in such a way that it was truly offensive.”  During a second round of testimony about medical marijuana, opponents spoke of cannabis-induced suicides, marijuana poisoning and spiking crime rates, in what some have called a blatant attempt at halting the legislation. At the start of the Thursday meeting of the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee, one of the audience members, an anti-abortion lobbyist, introduced a new…

A Maryland House of Delegates committee has advanced an amended bill containing proposed rules for legal marijuana sales and production in the state, a policy change approved by nearly two-thirds of voters through a ballot referendum last year. The measure is intended to prepare Maryland to regulate cannabis commerce as the new state law, which will allow adults to possess up to 1.5 ounces of marijuana and two grow plants at home for personal use on July 1. Before approving the bill at a hearing Thursday evening, the House Economic Matters Committee adopted dozens of changes in a lengthy reprint…