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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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