Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Al Olson

Al Olson is a journalist with nearly 40 years of experience in mainstream print and online media. He has spent the past six years reporting and studying the cannabis industry. Olson began his journalism career working at a handful of daily newspapers in California, including the San Jose Mercury News, where he was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989. In 1995, he left the world of print journalism to help the launch of MSNBC.com as one of its founding editors. He spent most of the past 19 years pioneering online journalism at NBC.com, CNBC.com and TODAY.com. In 2014, he was named the first Cannabis Editor for CNBC. "As a young journalist, two of my heroes were Walter Cronkite and Hunter S. Thompson. I admired Cronkite's integrity and Thompson's dramatic flair,” said Olson. “Although these two journalists were on opposite ends of the news spectrum, both understood that the War on Drugs was a colossal failure."

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Why Is It Illegal For Cannabis Consumers To Own A Gun?

A federal ban on the sale of firearms to medical marijuana patients does not violate the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

6 Reasons Why Marijuana Wins No Matter Who Becomes Attorney General

Sure, Jeff Sessions will not make it easy and some progress may be clawed back, but let's take a look at the past and be thankful that we have

Green Friday! Marijuana Sales Spike For The Holidays

"It looks like people stock up before the holiday on products that are easy to share among friends and family," said Scott Vickers, Headset's chief technology officer.

Loudcloud App Will Streamline How You Buy Medical Marijuana

Loudcloud, a California-based tech company, hopes to streamline the system with a new phone app scheduled to launch in January 2017.

What Jeff Sessions As Attorney General Means For Legal Marijuana

Alabama Sen. Jefferson Beauregard "Jeff" Sessions III — who claimed that "good people don't smoke marijuana" — is Donald Trump's choice to be the Attorney General. Sessions, who has served Alabama as a senator for two decades, is one of...

Pay for Marijuana Without Using Cash? CanPay Is An App For That

If you're lucky enough to live in a state where marijuana is legal, walking into a well-lit, clean retail store and buying a few grams of cannabis and maybe an edible is so, well, civilized and convenient....

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