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Evergreen: The Road to Legalization is a 2013 documentary film directed by Riley Morton about the U.S. state of Washington's passage of an initiative decriminalizing recreational cannabis. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The film was written by Nils Cowan and features defense lawyer Doug Hiatt, American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Alison Holcomb , Pete Holmes ...
In 2021, Planet 13 Holdings purchased a medical marijuana subsidiary of Harvest Health and Recreation for $55 million. The store will be known at Planet 13 Florida. [8] In 2022, the company purchased Next Green Wave to expand operations in California. [9] In July 2021, the company opened Planet 13 Orange County in Santa Ana, California.
Recreational marijuana shops began to open in January 2018, with many districts beginning recreational sales on the first or fifth of January 2018. [47] In January, 2018, Los Angeles had no licensed retailers; the closest cities with licensed retail sales were Santa Ana on January 1 and West Hollywood on January 2.
The 2020 film Freeland is about a longtime Humboldt County marijuana grower, played by Krisha Fairchild, growing illegally despite the availability of the legal market. [ 21 ] The 2021 documentary Lady Buds , produced by Gravitas Ventures , about women who work in the marijuana industry in Northern California, is being developed into a scripted ...
Notes: · Reflects laws of states and territories, including laws which have not yet gone into effect. Does not reflect federal, tribal, or local laws. · Map does not show state legality of hemp-derived cannabinoids such as CBD or delta-8-THC, which have been legal at federal level since enactment of the 2018 Farm Bill
Dennis L. Thomas and David Lee Baumgardner pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana on November 27, 1967. [34] Due to the publicity the raid received, four senior members of the San Bernardino chapter were granted a change of venue to stand trial, with their cases moving to Santa Ana in Orange County. [30]
Cannabis also has a long history of being used for medicinal purposes, and as a recreational drug known by several slang terms, such as marijuana, pot or weed. Various cannabis strains have been bred, often selectively to produce high or low levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a cannabinoid and the plant's principal psychoactive constituent .
In 2003, the Los Angeles Times described Valerie as "the face of Santa Cruz's wildly successful medical marijuana initiative" in the wake of harassment from the federal government. [31] Writing for The New York Times Magazine , Michael Pollan called Valerie "the Florence Nightingale and Johnny Appleseed of medical marijuana rolled into one".