Sunday Weed: Weekly Digest, Number One Hundred Four

The Christmas fever is at full speed, and you’re probably a little bit tired of all this shopping, running, and Santa hats on every corner. It’s time to relax and recharge your batteries. To make your Sunday better, we gathered the latest weed news around the web. Enjoy your read!

1. When the Makers of Marlboro and Corona Get Into Marijuana

Proponents of legal marijuana spent decades fighting a slow battle for mainstream acceptance. Now, with recreational use legal in Canada and many states in the United States, big business is suddenly swooping in.

2. New Zealand passes laws to make medical marijuana widely available

Legislation comes ahead of a referendum on recreational marijuana use in next two years.

3. With marijuana shops open, pot convention gets serious

Less than a month after the debut of legal marijuana sales in Massachusetts, thousands of consumers from around New England descended on this city Saturday for the second annual Harvest Cup — an industry convention, product competition, and celebration of cannabis culture.

4. Why Weed Companies Are Embracing Blockchain

Blockchain is mostly associated with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin — but the technology could help transform cannabis.

5. What happens when a state grows way too much weed

The hope was to make it as easy as possible for everyone to get in on the new and exciting market. And it worked really well. Too well, in fact. Fast forward just a few years, and Oregon has found itself in a pretty strange position.

6. Weed Etiquette To Follow When Bringing Cannabis To A Holiday Party

Legal recreational marijuana is still quite new in Canada — just two months old — but of course social cannabis use has long been normal at certain gatherings.

7. Cannabis is now getting the Instagram museum treatment

Why the founder of the Cannabition museum thinks cannabis is the perfect subject for an immersive experience.

Enjoyed your digest? Let us know.

See you next Sunday!

(Sweedsy in no way encourages illegal activity and would like to remind its readers that marijuana usage continues to be an offense under Federal Law, regardless of state marijuana laws. To learn more, click here.)