Last week, Illinois State Rep. La Shawn Ford introduced House Bill 4161, which focused mainly on permits, licensing, testing, taxes, and preventing the sell of hemp products to persons under 21 years of age. Today, the first day of the … Continue reading →
Yesterday, House Bill 4161, introduced by Illinois State Rep. La Shawn Ford, was referred to the Rules Committee. As reported earlier, HB4161 focuses mainly on safety concerns, including permits, licensing, testing, taxes, and a new Hemp Social Equity Fund, but … Continue reading →
At the end of September, we reported on the intentions of Illinois State Rep. La Shawn Ford to introduce a new bill for regulating hemp and delta-8 products. Last week, Ford introduced House Bill 4161, the Consumable Hemp Licensing bill, … Continue reading →
During the 2023 spring legislative session, Illinois politicians and stakeholders wrangled over a cannabis omnibus that eventually failed because of the late inclusion and hard-line stance to ban delta-8 products. Since then, delta-8 advocates and adversaries have been making moves … Continue reading →
Saturday marked the 4th Annual SIUC Cannabis Science Center Hemp Symposium and an opportunity for me to take a firsthand look at some of the cutting edge research done right here in southern Illinois. This year’s focus was Cannabis Controlled … Continue reading →
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) recently released its August 2023 medical cannabis sales totals. In August, dispensaries served the exact same amount of patients as the previous month but with lower overall sales numbers, continuing a downward trend … Continue reading →
To help feed my need for more imaginative work, I recently created a set of memes for our Original Memes page, and the reward I felt made me want to produce more, so I added three memes to our Cannabis … Continue reading →
The one aspect I desperately miss from past employment is the creative outlet those jobs provided. Teaching writing, editing a literary magazine, and publishing anthologies offered nonstop engagement with art, artists, and the creative process. The lack of creative outlets … Continue reading →
For those craving for more cannabis-related entertainment in southern Illinois, the Hemp Hops Shrooms festival is back for its 2nd annual event and again offering a unique combination of education and entertainment.
Continue reading →In Part I and Part II of this 3-part series, we compared and contrasted registered medical cannabis patient’s price per gram for Dry Flower and Extracts before and after adult-use legalization, as well as adult-use and medical prices. In Part … Continue reading →
