Tag: Donald Trump

Legal Cannabis is Coming to the United States…Soon

Written by Amber Iris Langston on April 19, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Portland, ICBC Vancouver, Politics.

They say when it rains it pours. In tandem with crazy weather patterns affecting populations across the globe, the cannabis industry is starting to see some precipitation after decades of prohibition-induced...

Anti-Cannabis Conservatives Seek U.S. Help to Stop Legalization in Canada, the ICBC to Have the Latest

Written by Amber Iris Langston on April 9, 2018. Posted in ICBC Berlin, ICBC Portland, ICBC Vancouver, Politics.

Three Canadian Conservative Party senators who are charged with assisting the transition to legal cannabis for adult-use in their country this summer are looking for help in the US, presumably in an...

Canada’s Cannabis Legalization Saved; Medical Protected in the U.S. for Now

Written by Amber Iris Langston on March 23, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Berlin, ICBC Portland, ICBC Vancouver, Medical, Politics.

Yesterday we wrote to you about the long and ugly process of creating policy, and the indispensable role advocacy and activism play in making sure the law works for the people. (In the case of cannabis,...

Prohibition Problems at the US-Canada Border for Non-Cannabis Industries

Written by Amber Iris Langston on March 13, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Berlin, ICBC Portland, ICBC Vancouver, Politics.

While the US lags behind Canada and other countries moving toward more friendly federal cannabis policies, some are predicting a negative impact on other international trade between the two countries....

Israeli Cannabis Firms Look to Produce in Germany After Federal Freeze

Written by Amber Iris Langston on February 14, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Berlin, Medical.

When it comes to medical cannabis research, no one has Israel beat. Over the decades, the country has proven to be a leader in formally documenting the usefulness of the plant, and had a generally more...

Jeff Sessions Fallout: Dana Rohrabacher Interviewed

Written by Anthony Johnson on January 8, 2018. Posted in Politics.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in an attempt to stifle the cannabis legalization movement by repealing the Obama Administration’s Cole Memo (along with the lesser-known Ogden and Wilkinson Memos),...

Medical Cannabis Patients and Providers Protected by Senate Debt Bill

Written by Anthony Johnson on September 8, 2017. Posted in Politics.

The cannabis community was rocked when the Republican-led House Rules Committee nonsensically prohibited a vote on the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer Amendment, and a whole host of other positive cannabis law...

State Legislatures Want to End Federal Cannabis Prohibition

Written by Anthony Johnson on August 8, 2017. Posted in ICBC Kauai.

On the heels of New Jersey Senator Cory Booker introducing the “Marijuana Justice Act” to repeal cannabis prohibition, the National Conference of State Legislatures has joined the call for...

White House Chaos May Be Good for the Cannabis Industry

Written by Anthony Johnson on August 1, 2017. Posted in ICBC Kauai.

Donald Trump came into office as a complete wildcard on a number of federal policy issues, cannabis included. During the campaign, he stated that he supported medical marijuana and that legalization...