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Maryland’s First Week of Adult-Use Cannabis Sales Tops $20 Million

Maryland’s first week of regulated sales of adult-use cannabis totaled more than $20 million dollars, only eight months after voters legalized recreational marijuana in the 2022 general election. Legal sales of adult-use cannabis began on July 1, with nearly 100 of Maryland’s medical marijuana dispensaries now licensed to sell cannabis to all adults aged 21

2023-07-12T10:16:12+00:00July 12th, 2023|Cannabis, Feed|Comments Off on Maryland’s First Week of Adult-Use Cannabis Sales Tops $20 Million

AOC ‘Concerned’ Biden’s Conservative Pot Views Could Ruin Bipartisan Push To Study Psychedelics

AOC is doing what we love her best for: calling out the old-guard Democrats. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic Representative from New York, says she’s worried that President Joe Biden may derail bipartisan efforts to address psychedelics due to his past conservative comments about cannabis usage, Business Insider reports.  “I believe the president has displayed a

2023-07-11T10:16:09+00:00July 11th, 2023|Cannabis, Feed|Comments Off on AOC ‘Concerned’ Biden’s Conservative Pot Views Could Ruin Bipartisan Push To Study Psychedelics

Pennsylvania Senate Panel Advances Medical Cannabis Reform Bills

A Pennsylvania Senate panel has given its approval to three bills to ease restrictions on the state’s medical marijuana operators and improve access to medical cannabis for patients. The three bills, which were all approved by the Senate Law & Justice Committee late last month, now advance to the full Senate for consideration. The first

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DEA Celebrates 50th Anniversary of War on Drugs, Drugs Are Winning

Citing former president Richard Nixon, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) celebrated the 50th anniversary of the agency’s creation and the War on Drugs, wrapping up 50 years of failed attempts to curb drug abuse, according to a July 5 announcement. The DEA’s tactics are not working: Decades of research indicates that drug use is up

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Long Island’s First Adult-Use Dispensary Opens To Huge Crowds

Long Island’s first legal recreational cannabis business cut its ribbon and opened its doors last week, marking another milestone in New York’s ever-expanding adult-use marijuana market.  The dispensary, called Strain Stars, opened on Saturday in Farmingdale, New York.  “It was a long way,” Kamaldeep Singh, an owner of the store, told local news station FOX5

2023-07-11T10:16:11+00:00July 11th, 2023|Cannabis, Feed|Comments Off on Long Island’s First Adult-Use Dispensary Opens To Huge Crowds

Woman Becomes First Person To Be Imprisoned for CBD in Hong Kong

A 32-year-old woman was recently put in prison for possession of CBD in Hong Kong. According to a report from Agence France-Presse (AFP), she has become the first person to receive a criminal conviction for CBD since Hong Kong officially banned it earlier this year. Now it’s illegal to possess, consume, or sell CBD products,

2023-07-10T10:15:09+00:00July 10th, 2023|Cannabis, Feed|Comments Off on Woman Becomes First Person To Be Imprisoned for CBD in Hong Kong

New York Town Owes Nearly $200,000 After Firing Medical Cannabis Patient

The city of Amsterdam, New York owes nearly $200,000 after firing a medical marijuana patient for failing a drug screening for cannabis, a jury decided in a legal action filed by the dismissed city worker. The jury found that the city had discriminated against Thomas Apholz, a wastewater treatment plant worker who was suspended in

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Moxie Launches in Ohio

Moxie, California’s first licensed cannabis brand, has launched its premium medical cannabis products in Ohio. Moxie is one of the original, premium California-based brands known for pioneering extraction techniques, its award-winning concentrates, live resins, Liquid Moxie, and delectable gummy products, and for breeding world-renowned curated cannabis plant genetics.  Moxie is now part of High Times,

2023-07-07T10:16:09+00:00July 7th, 2023|Cannabis, Feed|Comments Off on Moxie Launches in Ohio

Matt Gaetz Proposes Ending Cannabis Testing for Military Members

A proposed amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act by Republican Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida would cease cannabis testing for military members, Politico reports. Should the amendment make it into the National Defense Authorization Act, it would further relax rules regarding cannabis testing within the military. As marijuana legalization sweeps the nation, more and

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More Than 1,000 Arrested in Sweep of U.K. Weed Grows

Police in the United Kingdom arrested more than 1,000 individuals and confiscated more than 180,000 cannabis plants in a recent push to crack down on illegal marijuana cultivation. The eradication campaign, dubbed Operation Millie by U.K. law enforcement officials, was carried out throughout the month of June and involved every police force in England, Scotland

2023-07-07T10:16:11+00:00July 7th, 2023|Cannabis, Feed|Comments Off on More Than 1,000 Arrested in Sweep of U.K. Weed Grows
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