Can you really join the “Mile High Club” at Los Angeles International Airport? Social media has been abuzz the last week over a change in policy that allows passengers to possess cannabis at the Los Angeles International Airport. But the …
The former California coordinator for the Drug Policy Alliance has been tabbed to run the Los Angeles Department of Cannabis Regulation, the Los Angeles Times reports. Cat Packer, 26, was the choice of Mayor Eric Garcetti to run the agency …
Cat Packer has been tapped as the first executive director of the new Los Angeles Department of Cannabis Regulation. The department was created in June after L.A. voters approved the local regulation and taxation of cannabis earlier this year. “Taxing …
Although voters passed referendums legalizing recreational marijuana in California and Massachusetts in November, regulators at the state and local level are still working out how to manage the new industry. One of the key areas has been finance–a potential point …
A new study co-written by a UC Irvine business professor has found no correlation between the closure of marijuana dispensaries and reduced crime rates near them. Rather, it discovered the opposite. The paper, written by UCI’s Mireille Jacobson and USC …
About 150 people gathered at the Expo Center in Los Angeles on Friday for what area Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer called the “first of several” conversations about the launch of adult-use cannabis in the state. While there been a slew of …
The first time I met Flow Kana founder Michael Steinmetz, it was September of 2015. We rendezvoused at a Dogpatch coffee shop because his startup’s office was too tiny to host guests. He spoke rapidly and breathlessly (as South Americans …