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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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