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DENVER — Washington state regulators have begun accepting bids for a new seed-to-sale tracking system to keep tabs on marijuana commerce, a deal with an initial value of about $3 million.
The competition likely will be fierce, given that the contract involves one of the nation’s largest cannabis markets.
But businesses won’t be squaring off against the provider of the state’s current seed-to-sale system, BioTrackTHC. The company said it has no plans to bid for the new contract, saying it is uncomfortable with some specifics of the state’s proposal.
BioTrackTHC’s contract expires in October.
Bids for the new contract are due by April 26, and the state hopes to have the new system in place by Oct. 31, Brian Smith, communications director for Washington’s Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB), told Marijuana Business Daily.
The contract length will be negotiated.
BioTrack bowing out State government contracts have become a lucrative – and prestigious – source of income for software compan..

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky agriculture officials say they’re burning a fraction of the hemp crop being grown for commercial purposes because it contains a higher level of a psychoactive compound than is legally allowed.
Brent Burchett is director of plant marketing for the state agriculture department. He says the state’s bound by law to destroy the 100 pounds (45 kilograms) in question because their THC level exceeded 0.3 percent, the limit set by Congress and followed by the state.
Grower Lyndsey Todd cultivated the hemp to be turned into medicine. Todd says her product is not psychoactive and that the 0.3 percent THC limit is an “unrealistic number.”
Hemp and marijuana are the same species, but hemp usually has a negligible amount of THC, the psychoactive compound that gives marijuana users a high.

Canada is set to detail its plans for legalized recreational marijuana, with the industry expecting a rush of mergers as companies seek a national footprint amid a patchwork of different rules in each province.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government will unveil its proposed law as early as this week but is likely to leave many facets — potentially including distribution and the legal age — up to individual provinces, as recommended by a federal panel. That suggests Canada’s pot market could be similar to its ad hoc system of restrictions on the sale and shipment of alcohol.
The development may spark further consolidation as companies seek to expand their geographic footprint as the shape of the market becomes clear. Shares of marijuana companies like Canopy Growth Corp. have surged more than fourfold over the past 12 months amid investor optimism over recreational sales, which Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. said in November could reach C$6 billion ($4.5 billion) annually by 2021. P..

KINGSTON — Officials say a Washington Native American tribe is in talks with the state about beginning marijuana sales on their land.
The Kitsap Sun reports Port Gamble S’Klallam Chairman Jeromy Sullivan said they are first working on legalizing marijuana for their adult residents, before they consider opening marijuana selling businesses.
The tribe will be holding a public hearing on Monday to discuss the implications of legal marijuana sales. The tribe’s current economic drivers are The Point Casino and Hotel, Gliding Eagle Market and the Heronwould garden. Sullivan says marijuana sales could expand their commercial portfolio.
Liquor and Cannabis Board spokesman Brian Smith said Port Gamble S’Klallam is one of six Washington tribes that is looking to become a marijuana seller.
Community members have said, if legalized, they want strong rules in place to protect youth.

With local restrictions on marijuana easing across the U.S., power suppliers from California to Maine were expecting a little buzz of their own from newly legitimate pot farmers. After all, a 5,000-square-foot warehouse filled with hydroponic growing systems can draw five times the electricity of a typical industrial user.
But after an initial jolt in electricity use, when western states began legalizing marijuana cultivation and sales, demand has fallen off in some areas, according to utilities and analysts. That’s partly because the once-illicit business may no longer have to keep plants hidden from law enforcement and producers are upgrading to energy-efficient lights, pumps and cooling systems.
“You have to ask yourself: Why is weed grown indoors?” said Paul Patterson, a utility analyst at Glenrock Associates in New York. “As it becomes legal, you’re going to see more go outside or in greenhouses.”
The sobering reality of pot power may prove a disappointment for American utiliti..

DENVER — Governors from the first four states to legalize recreational marijuana are asking the Trump administration to let the pot experiments continue.
The governors of Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington say that marijuana legalization has expanded their economies.
The governors also say in Monday’s letter that legal weed can be regulated to protect public safety and that legalization reduces “inequitable incarceration,” or people of color being disproportionately jailed for pot crimes.
The letter was addressed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. The governors say they opposed legalization at first, but warn that a federal pot crackdown now “would divert existing marijuana product into the black market.”
The governors also ask for the Treasury Department not to change instructions to banks for handling marijuana money.

OLYMPIA — Meagan Holt sat in the front row of a committee hearing earlier this week holding her 4-year-old daughter Maddie in one arm and a syringe filled with cannabis oil in the other.
“Cannabis is what’s kept her alive all this time,” Holt said. “She isn’t supposed to be here.”
Maddie was born blind, deaf and has many health complications from a rare terminal disease called Zellweger Syndrome. Holt says babies like her usually die shortly after birth, but Maddie has surpassed her life expectancy because of medical marijuana.
Lawmakers in the Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Committee heard parents like Holt speak about the benefits of medical marijuana and how it has helped their children function without pain or other issues until their next dose. House Bill 1060 would allow a parent or guardian to privately administer medical marijuana to a child while at school, on a school bus or at a school-sponsored event. Under existing law schools are not required to allow on-site u..

If Mike Gilles were to knock back a bottle of Jack Daniels on the front porch of a stranger’s home, he wouldn’t be surprised if the cops were called.
“I could or should expect to experience consequences,” Gilles said. “Those are the cultural norms.”
But people smoke marijuana on the front porch of his Vancouver townhouse, which is across the street from Main Street Marijuana. They light up in his backyard, too, which is technically a park. Around here, neighbors say, be warned before opening the windows to enjoy the spring air.
“Recreational use of marijuana is new to our community and across the country,” Gilles told members of the Vancouver City Council recently.
It’s time, he said, to develop the cultural norms around marijuana, just like the nation did with alcohol use generations ago.
The members of the Uptown Village Residential Homeowners Association board, made up of mainly townhouses and a handful of condominiums, located across the street from the highest-grossing pot sh..

SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Liquor Control Commission issued its first recall of recreational marijuana after samples of a type of pot were found to contain a level of pesticide residue above the state limit.
The Blue Magoo marijuana was sold at Buds 4 U in Mapleton, a community 45 miles west of Eugene, Ore., The Capital Press reported. The commission, which oversees retail sales of recreational pot, said people who bought the drug should return it to the retailer or throw it out.
The retailer notified the agency immediately after spotting the failed pesticide reading in the state’s cannabis tracking system, commission spokesman Mark Pettinger said. The shop sold the brand to 31 customers March 8-10.
Pettinger said a wholesaler shipped the pot to the Mapleton store before the test results were entered in the tracking system.
“The retailer was great,” he said. “They get the gold star.”
The Oregon Liquor Control Commission said the samples failed a test for pyrethrin levels. They are a..

What is an Herbal Vaporizer? It almost seems like herbs are becoming a thing of the past ever since concentrates have come about. As time goes by, new methods of extraction are coming out which creates higher THC concentrates. However cannabis in the herbal form is still saving lives and some people do not like concentrates. If you are one of those people, you might have tried a dry herb vaporizer. Unfortunately many people are not educated on them. Some have not tried them at all and some have had bad experiences with them whether they did not know how to use it efficiently or use one that did not work properly. In order to know to talk more about them, let’s discuss the benefits of dry herb vaporizer pens.
Benefits of Dry Herb Vapes Vaporizers come with many benefits to them and they all vary across the board. Generally strains with higher CBD are encouraged to be used vaporizes so you keep more of the CBD intact rather than burn it off. An average rule of thumb is you save about 95..

Some things are just better when you’re stoned. Animated movies/shows are definitely two things I enjoy stoned and that’s why I was honored to be chosen to watch a screener for the animated film, Nerdland.
Written by Andrew Kevin Walker and directed by Chris Prynoski, Nerdland follows two goof-off best friends who are tired of the everyday minutiae, while they try to navigate their hopeless lives in Los Angeles.
John (voiced by Paul Rudd) is a writer by day and aspiring actor by night. His hetero lifemate, Elliot (voiced by Patton Oswalt) is an aspiring screen writer who just can’t seem to keep a job, he’s been everything from a video store clerk to a bowling alley employee. After John blows an interview with super-famous-actor Brett Anderson (voiced by Reid Scott of Veep), Elliot gets canned from one of his dead end jobs. With their lives in dire straits John and Elliot start scheming for a way to make it big in this celebrity obsessed, all consuming world.
Their road to fame inclu..

It seems as though every day Trump and his flunkies are trying to take back any progress we’ve made in the last 8 years. Him and the GOP are a joke…OH LOOK! Here’s another thing Trump is trying to take away from us
Sean Spicer was asked about the Trump Administration and weed, here’s what he had to say:
“There’s two distinct issues here: medical marijuana and recreational marijuana. I think medical marijuana, I’ve said before, that the president understands the pain and suffering that many people go through, who are facing especially terminal diseases, and the comfort that some of these drugs, including medical marijuana, can bring to them. And that’s one that Congress, through a rider in [2014], put an appropriations bill saying that the Department of Justice wouldn’t be funded to go after those folks.
There’s a big difference between that and recreational marijuana. And I think that when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this c..

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration said on Thursday for the first time that it will crack down on marijuana sales in states that have approved recreational pot use.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said the Department of Justice will pursue enforcement of federal law against recreational use, but not medical use. The statement marked a major break with the Obama administration’s hands-off approach to the growing marijuana legalization movement.
“I do believe that you’ll see greater enforcement,” Spicer told reporters at his daily briefing. “Because again there’s a big difference between the medical use that’s very different than the recreational use, which is something the Department of Justice will be further looking into.”
The decision is certain to provoke a fight with the states that have legalized recreational marijuana. Those states are Alaska, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Maine, Nevada, Oregon and Washington and the District of Columbia.
Jay ..