Howard Alexander
Assistant Editor Howard Alexander comes to iNFOnews.ca from the broadcasting side of the media business.
Howard has been a reporter, news anchor, talk show host and news director, first in Saskatchewan and then the Okanagan.
He moved his family to Vernon in the 90s and is proud to call the Okanagan home.
If you have an event to share contact Howard at 250-309-5343or email halexander@infonews.ca.
Kentucky Senate proposes conditions for providing funds for the state’s Office of Medical Cannabis
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Language put in the main budget bill by the Kentucky Senate would set conditions to unlock funding to oversee the state's medical cannabis program, which is scheduled to take effect at the start of 2025. The…
Federal cannabis review calls for look at tax structure among 54 recommendations
A group convened by the federal government to study the legislation that made cannabis legal is recommending the country review one of the industry's biggest gripes: excise taxes charged to pot producers. A report compiling 54 recommendations from the five-person…
Germany’s plan to liberalize cannabis rules clears its final parliamentary hurdle
BERLIN (AP) — The German government's plan to liberalize rules on cannabis cleared its final parliamentary hurdle Friday, paving the way for the possession of limited amounts of marijuana to be decriminalized on April 1. In a second step, “cannabis…
Youth who had cannabis-induced psychosis support standard dose recommendation
Two young people who were diagnosed with cannabis-induced psychosis are supporting an expert panel's recommendation that Health Canada establish a standard dose for cannabis, saying it would help nudge people toward safer consumption. In a report released last week, the…
Germany has legalized possession of small amounts of cannabis. But the buzz may not last.
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Marijuana campaigners in Germany lit celebratory joints on Monday as the country legalized possession of small amounts of cannabis for recreational use – a step that hasn't ended the debate over the drug. The German Cannabis…
Austria stepping up police checks in border areas after Germany liberalizes cannabis rules
BERLIN (AP) — Austria will step up police checks near its border with Germany after its neighbour legalized the possession of limited amounts of cannabis for recreational use, the country's top security official said Tuesday. Germany's new rules went into…
John Sinclair, a marijuana activist who was immortalized in a John Lennon song, dies at 82
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — John Sinclair, a poet, music producer and counterculture figure whose lengthy prison sentence after a series of small-time pot busts inspired a John Lennon song and a star-studded 1971 concert to free him, has died.…
Oregon governor signs a bill recriminalizing drug possession into law
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek on Monday signed into law a bill that recriminalizes the possession of small amounts of drugs, ending a first-in-the-nation experiment with decriminalization that was hobbled by implementation issues. The new law…
Florida voters will decide whether to legalize pot in November
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court issued rulings this week allowing the state's voters to decide whether to protect abortion rights and legalize recreational use of marijuana, rejecting the state attorney general's arguments that the measures should be…
No, a judge didn’t void all of New York’s legalized marijuana laws. He struck down some
NEW YORK (AP) — New York's cannabis industry was unsettled this week by a judge's ruling that appeared to strike down all regulations governing recreational marijuana in the state. But a key portion of the order turned out to be…
Copenhagen’s hippie oasis wants to rebuild without its illegal hashish market
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The now-aging hippies who took over a derelict naval base in Copenhagen more than 50 years ago and turned it into a freewheeling community known as Christiania want to boot out criminals who control the community's…
A convicted Southern California con artist pleads guilty in an $18M cannabis scam
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A convicted California con artist has pleaded guilty in another scam, admitting that he swindled investors out of more than $18 million by concocting phoney cannabis businesses shortly after being released from prison in a prior…
No weed, just beer: Bavaria bans smoking cannabis at Oktoberfest and beer gardens
BERLIN (AP) — You can get drunk at Bavaria's world-famous Oktoberfest, but don't get high. The southern German state will ban smoking cannabis at public festivals, inside beer gardens, and even at the Oktoberfest, the world's most popular beer festival,…
4/20 grew from humble roots to marijuana’s high holiday
SEATTLE (AP) — Saturday marks marijuana culture’s high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather — at 4:20 p.m. — in clouds of smoke on campus quads and pot shops in legal-weed states thank their customers with discounts. This year’s edition…
Advocacy group calls on Vancouver to ’embrace’ cannabis tourism after 4-20 ‘debacle’
VANCOUVER – The head of a B.C. cannabis growers group says the City of Vancouver's choice to discourage instead of sanction a marijuana celebration over the weekend was a costly "missed opportunity." The BC Craft Farmers Co-Op says the city…