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As an employer, you may have an obligation to accommodate employees who use marijuana for medical reasons, or you may want to relax your policies to cope with a talent shortage.
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“We think (edibles are) going to become a big part of the business in Canada over the next couple of years.”
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As more states legalize medical marijuana, two key groups — researchers whose job is it to understand its benefits and drawbacks, and physicians charged with advising potential users — are struggling to catch up with policymakers.
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Virginia has received 49 applications from medical-cannabis companies hoping to be among the first to set up shop in the state, giving officials plenty of options as they prepare to hand out five licenses this summer.
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Does “relaxed, yet engaged, with a unification of mind, body, and spirit” describe a yoga class or a hit of Afghan Kush? Trick question— it’s both.
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For the first time, the party has allowed advocates in favor of decriminalizing marijuana possession to have a booth in the convention hall.
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Charlotte Caldwell says she and her epileptic son Billy are effectively in exile due to ‘horrendous’ drugs policy.
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It may only be 2018 and America’s political parties may be focused more on the upcoming midterm elections than the 2020 election, but that doesn’t mean certain people aren’t already trying to strengthen their credentials for a possible presidential run.
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Along with the tempura cannabis leaf, Shibumi’s special dishes include vegetables flavored with cannabis-infused sauce, made like a miso paste, which is often mixed in with sesame paste in Japan.
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South Carolina Democrats gave medical marijuana a landslide victory Tuesday, with 82 percent declaring in an advisory vote that doctors should be allowed to prescribe the drug.
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Two "coffee shops" selling legal cannabis opened their doors in the French capital last week. So what's the story?
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McConnell's hemp legislation, known as the Hemp Farming Act, is included in the Senate's farm bill and would remove industrial hemp from the list of controlled substances under federal law.
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As beverage heavyweights like Constellation get into the cannabis industry, THC and CBD infused drinks are about to show up everywhere.
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Scientists are currently in the midst of exploring uncharted territory: The cannabis genome.
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Former Ohio Republican Congressman and Speaker of the House John Boehner joined several U.S. mayors this week in telling the federal government to get out of the way of marijuana legalization.
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A strange-bedfellows mix of powerful state governors and members of Congress signed on to end the decades-old war on marijuana – via the newly introduced STATES Act.
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Recently, Japan has approved a large billboard in Omotesando Station in Tokyo/ The billboard will display an advertisement for one of Elixinol’s CBD products, Hemp Oil Drops.
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New York lawmakers explore allowing medical marijuana for opioid addiction treatment - Cannabis News
The NY state Assembly voted "yes" to a bill that would allow people who have been diagnosed with opioid addiction to use medical marijuana. Supporters say medical marijuana can help with withdrawal and make it easier for people to stop using opioids.
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The useful crop has seen renewed interest alongside legalized weed – and there are signs that US officials are warming to it.
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