While weed’s weird aroma is widely accepted, it now remains to be seen how many will raise a glass to the weird tasting drink.

Report: Facebook Looking To Ease Cannabis Advertising Rules [Benzinga]

Facebook is reportedly looking at changing rules on “regulated goods,” which would give cannabis sellers the ability to advertise their products to social media users. As it stands today, Facebook’s policies do not allow the sale of marijuana but internal documents stated the social media company is looking to consider if it can “loosen this restriction.” The internal document added it’s looking to make changes to its rules that would impact medical marijuana, legal marijuana and brick-and-mortar stores.

Elon Musk’s US security clearance under review after smoking cannabis [The Telegraph]

Mr Musk smoked the drug during an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience show in September last year, telling the host that he wasn’t a regular user. It is legal in California, where the show was recorded, but still illegal under federal law, and government employees aren’t allowed to use it. His security clearance is linked to his aerospace company SpaceX, which is launching intelligence satellites for the US government and is planning manned spaceflights for Nasa later this year. Last month SpaceX won a $297m (£226m) contract to launch satellites for the Air Force.

Bipartisan Bill Would License Cannabis Hospitality Establishments [Westworld]

Colorado might have been the first state to legalize recreational cannabis, but since that groundbreaking move in late 2012, it’s been slow to solve one of the biggest challenges involved with recreational cannabis: allowing people to actually consume it outside of their homes.

Alaska Is Officially The First State To License On-Site Marijuana Consumption At Cannabis Stores [Marijuana Moment]

Later this year, Alaska marijuana consumers will be able to buy their cannabis and smoke it, too—all under the same roof.

Nosing out the cannabis competition: U.S. patent sniffs IP rights for terpene-based pesticide [The Growth Op]

Digipath, Inc. reports it has filed a U.S. provisional patent application in a bid to secure “a method of using natural, plant-based, non-toxic compounds instead of chemical pesticides in cannabis and hemp cultivation.”

The Pot Seat: Elixinol’s Paul Benhaim is spending to stay on top [Stockhead]

Elixinol CEO Paul Benhaim has spent over 25 years wandering around Asia, and most recently was in Nepal for, of all things, a hemp summit. Mr Benhaim leads Australia’s most successful pot stock, which does not yet have feelers in Asia but owes its prosperity to another region: the US. Elixinol (ASX:EXL) almost made a full year profit last year (it reports on a calendar year basis) on the back of its revenue-generating US hemp business.