marijuana regulations

Dispensary 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Navigating Your Local Cannabis Shop Dispensaries are establishments where cannabis products are legally sold for medical or recreational use. These stores provide a safe and regulated environment for individuals to purchase cannabis and cannabis-related products. The history of dispensaries dates back to the late 1990s when California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana. Since then, many other states have followed suit, legalizing both medical and recreational use 
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Speculation is growing about the possibility that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will review by summer its “Schedule I” designation of marijuana as equal to heroin among the world’s most dangerous drugs. Very few Americans know of or understand the DEA’s drug-ranking process, and a review of cannabis’s history as a Schedule I drug shows that the label is highly controversial and dubious. Disgraced Attorney General John Mitchell of the Nixon administration placed marijuana 
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Microsoft is dipping its toe in the legal marijuana business. The giant tech company is partnering with a startup that makes software for the booming legal cannabis industry. Los Angeles-based Kind Financial said Thursday that Microsoft will help it market its software to local and state government agencies that monitor marijuana growers or distributors for compliance with regulations governing pot production and sales. Microsoft Corp. is best known for making software 
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