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Cannabis News Week: sales figures, new state protections
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Business & Finance
Meanwhile, the District of Columbia unleashed its Cannabis Task Force on the city Tuesday to scrutinize the adult-use industry in the city. The road cannabis legalization has taken in the U.S. has been circuitous to say the least, and with each new piece of state-sponsored legislation, the confusing framework is shown to be even more ridiculous.  T
The Wild West of unregulated Cannabis Retailers
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Politics
Step past the Dick Tracy caricature on the sign advertising Street Lawyer Services and into the business at 409 H St. NE and you won’t find a lawyer. No lawyer’s shingle is visible anywhere, inside or out.  “They’re upstairs,” the woman who greets customers assures us in the brightly lit room, directing our attention away from the art on the walls,
Local dispensaries hesitate to apply for Medical Marijuana Licenses
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Business & Finance
HUNTSVILLE - While some dispensary businesses are eager to put in an application for a medical marijuana license, others are not. With heavy financial regulations, some CBD businesses are taking a second thought at providing the alternative. With the possibility of paying $40,000 in annual fees regulated by the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission (
Charlottetown craft micro producer and Atlantic Canada Clothing Brand team up to introduce new CBD oil
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Business & Finance
Charlottetown-based Retro Cannabis & Hemp Extracts, a craft micro producer, has partnered with the region’s largest clothing brand to launch East Coast Lifestyle CBD Oil. Now available in select Maritime provinces and the Yukon, the oil is made with organic extra virgin olive oil and using and boasts a clean extracted formulation, notes a statement
Quirks of Cannabis tax formula mean Heavy burden for Nevada Cultivators as Prices drop
420 Intel
Business & Finance
In Reno cultivator Sarah Rosenfeld’s recent experience, the top dollar a pound of marijuana bud or flower might fetch at wholesale prices is about $1,800 to $2,000, and that’s if it’s packaged and has a high concentration of the active ingredient THC. Something in bulk with less potency might be closer to $900. Original link
Vermonters prepare for Retail Cannabis Shops to open this Fall
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Business & Finance
The Cannabis Control Board will be reviewing its first retail applications next week SHELDON - The Lanza Family has been focused on growing a lot of green crops on their parcel of land, tucked away in Sheldon, Vermont. "We've been growing hemp here going on three years now, going on four. Now we're also licensed for adult use cannabis," Jane Lanza
How to Have a Weed-Fueled adventure in Phoenix, Arizona
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Business & Finance
The cannabis scene in Arizona is poppin’. There may not be the flash of Las Vegas dispensaries, but there’s unique destinations like the cannabis consumption-friendly Clarendon Hotel and a Scottsdale-Tempe location of Sunday Goods dispensaries that offers complimentary kombucha, cold brew, and drive-thru service. Phoenix event producer Cloth + Flam
Why more and more Companies are betting on Cannabis Drinks
420 Intel
Cannabis News
Is the U.S. finally ready to give THC drinks a shot? Some industry experts think so. Now that people are officially smoking more cannabis than tobacco, it’s time for companies to try to make a profit off cannabis drinks. Weed-infused beverages haven’t amassed much success, mainly because THC is difficult to present in liquid form but also because t
Study finds Cannabis Consumers experienced less severe COVID-19 Symptoms
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Medical News
A study that analyzed the hospital patient records of cannabis consumers with COVID-19 reveals new evidence to show that consumers had improved clinical outcomes. The Journal of Cannabis Research published a new study recently that claims that cannabis can help lessen COVID-19 symptoms. The study, “Cannabis consumption is associated with lower COVI
Can Crypto save the Cannabis Industry?
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Technology
The legal cannabis industry’s problems go much deeper than a lack of access to banking. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Sin Week. Cryptocurrency has long been held up as a panacea for the U.S. cannabis industry’s well-publicized banking problems. Despite being legal in a growing number of states for either medical or recreational use, cannabis is
Marijuana with high THC levels can cause ‘cannabis use disorder’
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Politics
Ethan Andrew started smoking marijuana during his sophomore year of high school in Colorado to help with his anxiety.  Like many teens, he said he thought it was “just weed” and did not see the harm in smoking the popular drug containing THC, the active chemical found in cannabis that produces a “high.” His causal marijuana use turned to smoking po
Group pushing for Recreational Marijuana in Arkansas releases first TV Ad
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Technology
A new TV ad pushing for recreational marijuana is set to hit the airwaves on Wednesday (Aug. 31). Responsible Growth Arkansas (RGA) is highlighting where some of the taxes derived from recreational cannabis sales will go in this new ad. Whether Arkansans will see a recreational marijuana use question on the November ballot is yet to be determined a
Group pushing for Recreational Marijuana in Arkansas releases first TV Ad
420 Intel
Business & Finance
A new TV ad pushing for recreational marijuana is set to hit the airwaves on Wednesday (Aug. 31). Responsible Growth Arkansas (RGA) is highlighting where some of the taxes derived from recreational cannabis sales will go in this new ad. Original link
5 Tips to ensure the perfect High Meditation
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Cannabis News
If you do your research and follow these tips, you should have no problem enhancing your meditation practice with a little help from weed. Marijuana and meditation are kindred spirits in a way. People use both separately to find a sense of peace, tranquility and the feeling of being present in the moment. Marijuana has also infused itself into many
More people are turning to Hemp products for Relaxation and Relief
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Business & Finance
An explosion of CBD products seems to decorate the shelves of nearly every kind of business these days, offering products from CBD honey to CBD-infused yoga pants (yes, really). It’s more than obvious that CBD has become the latest health and wellness trend. When the U.S. Congress passed the 2018 Farm Bill, it legalized industrial hemp, which helpe
John Fetterman calls on Biden to Legalize Weed ahead of Labor Day — Here’s how POTUS responded
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Politics
Fetterman pledged to press on the topic of marijuana legalization ahead of Biden’s visit to his state of Pennsylvania. If the recent polls are any indication, it’s looking like John Fetterman (D) has a good chance of beating Dr. Oz (R) to become Pennsylvania’s next Senator. Ahead of President Biden’s visit to Pittsburgh this Labor Day, Fetterman pl
Cannabis grow Proposal heads back to Planning Commission
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Medical News
In a business matter that’s highlighted a tussle between Planning Commissioners and County of Santa Cruz staff, the Commission has been handed a second chance to properly deny a cannabis cultivation operation proposal in Upper Zayante. Local residents are trying to stop it, arguing it will use too much water and cause other problems—like increased
'It will poison a lot of our children': Battle over marijuana heats up in Hunterdon County
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Business & Finance
LEBANON TOWNSHIP - The township Planning Board is scheduled on Tuesday to start hearing an application to build a marijuana grow facility on Anthony Road, perhaps the most controversial issue in the northern Hunterdon County municipality in recent years. The application by The NAR Group, of Warren Township, to open a 20,000-square-foot medical mari

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