Image via After an eight-month investigation into the murder of cannabis and tech entrepreneur Tushar Atre, police arrested and identified four suspects, two of whom were Atre’s former employees at his licensed grow operation. Last Thursday, Santa Cruz police charged four men with robbing, kidnapping, and murdering Atre, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reported. Authorities…

Image via This September, New Zealanders will vote in a non-binding referendum to show whether they support or oppose the legalization of a taxed and regulated legal weed market. Earlier this month, the country’s legislature released the final draft of an adult-use legalization bill, which it has promised to pass if a majority of voters…

Federal law enforcement agencies report that they are seizing increasingly larger amounts of illicit cash from drug cartels since the start of the COVID-19 crisis in the US.  The coronavirus outbreak damaged the nation’s economy due to statewide lockdowns and international trade disruptions, triggering unemployment levels not seen since the Great Depression. When the hustle-and-bustle…

Canadians across the country are still largely on lockdown in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But while restaurants and most retail stores have spent the past few months struggling to make rent, Canadian cannabis dispensaries have been thriving. According to a new report from StatsCanada, and first reported by Bloomberg, sales in…

Just say the name: Purple Punch. It’s fun. It feels good. The words conjure thoughts of grape drink mix, freezer pops, fruit-infused cocktails, and other colorful cascades of mouth-watering excitement. Right away, you can almost taste it as “Purple Punch” rolls off the tongue. If a weed strain takes on the moniker Purple Punch, it’s…

Image via A town in Ontario is examining a potential bylaw that would regulate the “skunky” or “gassy” smell of cannabis as a “nuisance.”  Last Tuesday, the West Nipissing Council requested that municipal staff look into the possibility of a local ordinance that would effectively outlaw the smell of weed in residential areas. Four cannabis…

As recently as five years ago, the idea of magic mushrooms becoming a federally-approved form of medicine seemed like a joke. But thanks to a new wave of research exploring the therapeutic potential of natural psychedelics, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted psilocybin Breakthrough Therapy status, paving the way for legal psilocybin-assisted…