Grammy-winning Zac Brown Band canceled their October 21 show at Vancouver's Rogers Arena due to border issues. When several crew members were barred from entering Canada, the entire band elected to blow off the show altogether and headed to Portland instead.
Canna beverages are all the rage. Female celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow, Rosario Dawson, Kate Hudson and Chelsea Handler love them. Now, Handler is making her own move with Leisuretown sodas.
A New Jersey couple is facing charges of "alleged distribution of unregulated marijuana." At issue is not so much the selling of unregulated weed, but where Krista Winters and Michael Kearney did it: Right in front of The Apothecarium, a legal pot shop, in Phillipsburg. –
Cypress Hill's self-titled debut album in 1991 introduced the rough-and-tumble L.A.-based hip-hop trio. Thirty-plus years later, the making of that breakthrough record is the focus of Cypress Hill's first graphic novel, "Tres Equis."
Charlotte's Web, the company that named a low-THC strain after seizure sufferer Charlotte Figi, now has a CBD deal with Major League Baseball.
Curaleaf founder Boris Jordan was born in New York to Russian parents. He's a former supporter of Russian president Vladimir Putin. In a revealing interview on Ethan Nadelmann's Psychoactive podcast, Jordan says Putin will never legalize cannabis.
Three women head West from Maryland in 1985 and end up at a Grateful Dead show in Colorado at legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Some four decades later they stage a reunion for "Box of Rain," directed by one of the trio, Lonnie Frazier.
While CelebStoners are happy about the pardons Pres. Biden announced for some federal cannabis convicts, Tommy Chong, who was busted by the DEA in 2003, asks: "How about pardoning anyone convicted of selling bongs while you are at it?"
Joe Biden cleared the air today about cannabis. In a stunning proclamation, the President granted pardons to people convicted federally of simple marijuana possession charges, called on states to follow his lead and asked for a review of the drug's scheduling.
Cannabis-industry events came back en masse in the latter part of 2021 and 2022. Here's a list of upcoming expos, conferences and festivals through the rest of the year.
