Sunday Weed: Weekly Digest, Number One Hundred Seven

The first month of the year is coming to the end, and we hope it has been exciting for you so far. To warm you up before the busy week, we gathered best articles that recap hot weed topics. Enjoy your read!

1. Future Weed: Formulations, Patents and Where Cannabis Is Going Next

As cannabis users embrace concentrates, companies are isolating chemicals to make reliable products — and it’s making weed products intellectual property.

2. New York & Illinois Governors Outline Their Plans to Legalize Weed

New York governor Andrew Cuomo outlined his plans to legalize weed the day after the governor of Illinois announced his plan. In his State of the State address delivered on January 15, he announced his plan to legalize cannabis in New York.

3. All the Things the New Anti-Weed Crusade Gets Horribly Wrong

It’s Reefer Madness all over again, somehow.

4. The Marijuana Billionaire Who Doesn’t Smoke Weed

With the help of Big Beer and Big Pharma, Brendan Kennedy’s Canadian cannabis company Tilray has unexpectedly become America’s gateway to the legal marijuana industry.

5. The mature stoner: why are so many seniors smoking weed?

Older people are the fastest-growing group of cannabis users, as stigma fades and some seek an alternative to prescription drugs.

6. Don’t Call It “Weed,” and Other Tips from the Cannabis Media Summit

Members of the green press discuss style guidelines and bad puns.

7. Does marijuana use really cause psychotic disorders?

Alex Berenson says the drug causes ‘sharp increases in murders and aggravated assaults’. As scientists, we find his claims misinformed and reckless.
Have a nice weekend.

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.)