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Bag the Tags! California’s Eco-Absurdity
California takes pride in being a leader in progressive environmental policy, as well as a leader in cannabis horticulture. So, why does it seem so hard to marry the two and come up with cannabis...
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Japanese Cannabis Regulation Reform – Finally?
When it comes to medical cannabis, Japan is way behind the curve. Way, way behind. There is officially no legal access to medical cannabis in Japan. But some people are finding relief with...
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Spanish Government Gives Green Light to Medical Cannabis
Medical cannabis activists and patients in Spain had reason to celebrate after the Spanish government’s decision in June to legalize access to medicinal cannabis for a number of health conditions...
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Is Cannabis Performance-Enhancing for Athletes?
Athletes can always partake of their “inner cannabis,” as the endocannabinoids have been called.1 That’s the basis of the runner’s high. But when it comes to herb, weed, or extracts from the cannabis...
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Project CBD Responds to the FDA’s 2023 Statement on CBD
On Jan. 26, the FDA issued a CBD policy statement that reaffirmed its longstanding unwillingness or inability to regulate nonpharmaceutical CBD products. The announcement is riddled with disingenuous...
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Curaleaf Controversies
Small producers have long been wary of the cannabis industry coming under domination by multistate operators (MSO’s) with the worst practices of corporate America. But the revelations of Russian...
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CBD Market Report
HerbalGram, the acclaimed quarterly journal of the American Botanical Council, recently published its 2021 “Herb Market Report,” which included data on sales of CBD as an herbal ingredient in...
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Downstream Effects: April 2023
This is first of an occasional column that updates developments pertaining to articles previously published by Project CBD. We start with some positive news from the Golden State. Then a follow-up on...
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Dumpster Fire: What Went Wrong with California Cannabis?
Cannabis is supposed to be relaxing and fun. What’s not to like about giggles, munchies, and a brief break from the mundane? Unfortunately, news from California’s Emerald Triangle is anything but...
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Industry-Promoted Misinformation About Intoxicating Hemp
“It’s rope, not dope!” So went the clarion call from early activists seeking to restore the incredibly versatile hemp plant to its rightful place in U.S. industrial production. Just a few decades ago,...
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Satchmo Visits Africa
In the opening pages of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, the nameless narrator lights a reefer and listens to a recording of Louis Armstrong singing, “What did I do to be so black and blue,” a soulful...
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Oceania: Cannabis Beckons in a Restive Region
The global cannabis economy is now reaching Oceania, with commercial cultivation underway in Australia, a legalization referendum coming up in New Zealand, and legal barriers starting to come down in...
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Are CBD Contracts Legally Enforceable?
Many companies sign contracts to purchase industrial hemp or CBD extract for their business. But are these contracts actually enforceable under state and federal law? This question, and others like...
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A Salute to South Africa’s ‘Dagga’ Advocate
South Africa’s cannabis community is grieving and shocked after the slaying of Julian Stobbs, one of the country’s frontline activists — and one half of the famous “Dagga Couple” who challenged the...
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Project CBD Launches Japanese Website
Project CBD, the California-based nonprofit, has teamed up with Green Zone Japan, which advocates for medical cannabis research, to create a Japanese-language version of Project CBD’s educational...
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Growing a Cannabis Economy on White Earth
In northwest Minnesota, the White Earth Indian Reservation is home to one of the country’s foremost voices for Native land restoration and cultural survival — Winona LaDuke. In 1989, she founded the...
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Standing Up in Lakota Country
The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in the southwest corner of South Dakota, is a stark domain of dry plains and eroded buttes — the last refuge of the Oglala Lakota, or Oglala Sioux. They once shared...
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Showdown at Navajo Nation
Four Corners — where Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado meet — is the heart of the Navajo homeland, guarded by four sacred mountains. The high desert territory of the Navajo (who call themselves...
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Closing the Circle
Native tribes in the continental United States and Canada continue to grapple with issues of sovereignty that have arisen with renewed urgency as efforts proceed to jump-start a cannabis economy on...
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Europe’s CBD Conundrum
CBD is a regulator’s nightmare. Just the fact it comes from the cannabis plant means no amount of rebranding as a wholesome wellness supplement can shift the ingrained mistrust and hostility felt by...
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Just Say “No” to Kennedy for Drug Czar
Public support among Americans for the legalization of cannabis is higher than it’s ever been, according to a recent Gallop poll showing almost 70% of Americans in favor. In some respects,...
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Brexit Fallout: UK Kids Can’t Get CBD Medicine
Hannah Deacon, mother of nine-year-old Alfie Dingley who has a rare genetic type of epilepsy, has accused the British Government of failing to take action to ensure her son and 41 other children...
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Wasted: Plastic Packaging, Cannabis Biomass & Throw-Away Vapes
The cannabis industry has a waste disposal problem. Whether it’s gnarly solvents used in the manufacturing process or leftover biomass that must be destroyed or extra packaging required to make...
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Cannabis Legalization: New Jersey Beats New York to the Punch
After a frustrating delay and deadlock in the statehouse, New Jersey finally answered the will of the voters in last year’s referendum and passed enabling legislation to create a regulated adult-use...
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Women Patient Cannabis Activists Fighting for Change
March 8th is International Women’s Day – an occasion to celebrate the tremendous contributions made by women across the globe, while highlighting the challenges and inequalities many still face....
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New York State of Euphoria
After years of activist effort, New York state finally passed the Marijuana Regulation & Taxation Act (MRTA), signed into law by a politically besieged Gov. Andrew Cuomo. This is being hailed as a...
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Medical Marijuana for Animals: A Call for Standards
Among the ambiguous areas in the state medical marijuana laws from coast to coast is the status of cannabis and its derivatives as veterinary medications. Now, a new non-profit has been launched to...
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Cannabis Legalization & the Potency Question
As political and legal space open for cannabis in state after state, the idea of caps on potency — whether of flower, extracts or edibles — is gaining currency among legislators. But voices in the...
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Cannabis & Crony Capitalism: From Matt Gaetz to Trulieve
The sex scandal investigation of Florida’s far-right Rep. Matt Gaetz interlocks with a controversy concerning favoritism in handing out medical marijuana licenses in the Sunshine State. And one of the...
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Dr. Mikuriya’s Medicine
Tod Hiro Mikuriya was a man on a mission. At a time when the therapeutic use of marijuana had been abandoned in the United States, Mikuriya rediscovered the forgotten medical literature and brought it...
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Morocco Gets Legal Cannabis Sector
Morocco, long the world’s largest illicit producer of cannabis, is finally getting a legalized commercial cannabis industry, thanks to a law introduced by the otherwise conservative government. The...
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Marijuana & the Mexican Revolution
High up in the rugged Sierra Madre mountains, 50 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean and a three-day journey on muleback to the nearest Mexican village, a terraced crop of marijuana is ready for...
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Mexico: High Court Decriminalizes Cannabis
Two years and counting after Mexico’s Supreme Court ordered the country’s Congress to legalize cannabis, the high court justices ran out of patience with the legislative paralysis and issued a new...
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The FDA Defers to Pharma, Nixes CBD as Dietary Supplement
On Aug 12, the FDA formally rejected two New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) applications seeking to establish CBD as a lawful dietary supplement. Apparently, the fix was in from the start. The FDA never...
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Death Trap: Human Rights Abuses & Drug War Casualties at Rikers Island
Isaabdul Karim was the eleventh person to die this year while incarcerated at Rikers Island, New York City’s principal jail. His avoidable death drew attention to the horrific and deepening crisis at...
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California Greenlights Hemp-Derived CBD Commerce
California has taken a major step to resolve the ambiguities and inconsistencies in the regulation of hemp-derived CBD — a move that could see the state setting a de facto national standard for CBD...
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Free Speech Under Attack in Czech Cannabis Crackdown
The Czech Republic and especially its capital Prague have won a cachet among the international cannabis-cognoscenti. But now a local magazine dedicated to the cannabis culture may be forced to close...
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UK Epileptic Children Denied Cannabis Prescriptions
In countries around the world where medical cannabis is illegal, it’s generally assumed that a change in law will bring about safer access for patients. It’s often children with life-threatening...
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Cannabis! A Viper Vaudeville Opens in New York
It is certainly a propitious moment for a theatrical concert celebrating cannabis to hit New York’s off-off-Broadway scene, as the Empire State last year actually legalized. And adult-use dispensaries...
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CBD Regulatory Debacle
April Fools’ Day 2022 has a special meaning for the UK CBD industry. That’s the day that hundreds of companies, after over a year of anxious waiting, would find out if their CBD products could legally...
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