Hemp Hunter

With a majority of Americans now in favor marijuana legalization, President Barack Obama is now saying weed is no more dangerous to individuals’ health than alcohol. In an interview with the New Yorker’s David Remnick published Sunday, Obama said while he believes marijuana is “not very healthy,” the drug isn’t as harmful as some insist. “As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a youn...

With a majority of Americans now in favor marijuana legalization, President Barack Obama is now saying weed is no more dangerous to individuals’ health than alcohol. In an interview with the New Yorker’s David Remnick published Sunday, Obama said while he believes marijuana is “not very healthy,” the drug isn’t as harmful as some insist. “As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a youn...

The black market for weed in Colorado is still thriving, despite the existence of retail shops that sell it legally, according to exclusive interviews with growers, dealers and weed industry experts. There are a number of reasons that people still call their dealers instead of visiting one of the state’s 37 new Amsterdam-style dispensaries, which opened for business Jan. 1. Number one is the price: retail weed in Colorado sells for a whopping $65 or $70 an eighth, depending on quality. Those h...

How did you ring in your New Year? In Colorado, we celebrated the end of the era of marijuana prohibition with massive pot parties through the hazy state. Thousands upon thousands flocked to Denver to be one of the first to purchase marijuana legally in over a century. Safe to say, it wasn’t just any New Year. iBAKE Denver was Colorado’s first legal smoke shop. Not just the kind of smoke shop that sells smoking accessories, but a more of the Amsterdam coffee shop smoke shop. Although the sale ...

I went to the Retail Cannabis shop on Jan. 01 . 2014 There where 100's in the line, and since I grow my own, I asked someone if I could share their receipt on 420Nurses.com. Here is what legal weed looks like.... A historic day in history!!! It was snowing and raining, yet 1000's all around Colorado were braving the cold for legal weed. The cannabis has to be sold in an oblique container that is child resistant. Total price for 1/4 of weed... almost $90.00!!! Keep in mind that this shop...

Recreational marijuana is now legal to buy in Colorado, and it’s not cheap. But pot smokers who waited in five-hour long lines weren’t necessarily looking for a deal on Green Wednesday. “Our most expensive strains sold the quickest,” said Toni Fox, proprietor of Denver’s 3D Cannabis Center, to The Huffington Post. “We’re closing Monday and Tuesday next week to reassess after the large volume of sales we are seeing.” The Huffington Post spoke with owners at many of the roughly 30 dispensaries tha...

Throughout my life I have tended to subscribe to the view that everything “bad” could somehow be good for you. I was thoroughly vindicated in this with the discovery that red wine prevents cancer, heart disease, and wrinkles. Now it seems that cannabis is good for the skin and Medical Marijuana Inc, a publicly-quoted company, launched an anti-aging beauty products line starring super-concentrated, cannabis-enriched hemp oil starting December 2013. Now before you get too high on the idea that ca...

Denver (CNN) – Iraq war veteran Sean Azzariti described his purchase of recreational marijuana — legally — as a historic moment Wednesday. “It’s huge,” he said at a marijuana store along a light industrial corridor outside downtown Denver. “It hasn’t even sunk in how big this is yet.” Indeed, before the 3D Cannabis Center opened at 8 a.m. MT, more than 100 people were waiting in snowfall and cold under gray skies to be the next buyers of recreational pot under a landmark law voters approved in...

Uniting the Great Divide Many years ago when I was a “baby activist” I had no idea of the politics of cannabis activism. I was aware and prepared for the un-educated snide remarks and hate grenades launched out of fear. The DEA and Police did not faze me. I was fearless. The first year of my cannabis activism was F U N. Myself, along with my friends and fellow activist, we spent a year creating a movement in our area. We had rallies, petition drives, picnics, and too many education rallies t...

In the 1700s, American farmers were required by law to grow hemp in Virginia and the other colonies. It was a widely used crop for hundreds of years in the United States. Cut to 1957 when the U.S. government banned hemp over confusion about its relationship to marijuana, and the plant from which the paper for the The Declaration of Independence was sourced was gone from America’s soil. Until now. Back in May, Springfield, Colo. farmer Ryan Lofin planted 55 acres of hemp – the first hemp crop p...

Josh Sodaitis and Nick Spagnola have already spent $50,000, lined up tens of thousands more in financing and worked 100-plus hours each in an effort to win a license for a dispensary and grow site in the tiny Massachusetts town of Whately. But their money and hard work could go up in smoke instantly when Whately residents vote on a proposed MMJ business moratorium next week. “If this passes it will be the nail in our coffin,” said Sodaitis, co-founder of J.M. Farm’s Patient Group, which is vyi...

Seattle will allow both medical and recreational marijuana businesses to operate in the city – with restrictions – under a new ordinance that charts a course for the cannabis industry going forward. The measure, which city council unanimously approved on Monday, has broad business implications, affecting everyone from entrepreneurs looking to open grow sites targeting the adult-use market to the estimated 200 unregulated dispensaries scattered across Seattle. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE: