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Here's who's bankrolling Ohio's marijuana legalization campaign

Here's who's bankrolling Ohio's marijuana legalization campaign

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Cannabis NewsMay 18, 2023

More than $1.6 million has been contributed to the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol's marijuana legalization campaign since 2021, according to campaign finance records. The effort's biggest backer is the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), a Washington, D.C., legalization advocacy group that

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Home grow Marijuana could be legal in Minnesota August 1

Home grow Marijuana could be legal in Minnesota August 1

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Cannabis NewsMay 18, 2023

They call it “the Immaculate Conception.” Backers of legalizing recreational marijuana often use that miraculous reference when asked how Minnesotans can grow their own plants as soon as a law takes effect if the seeds needed to do so can’t legally be imported into the state. While 22 states have

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Woodstock approves Cannabis dispensary

Woodstock approves Cannabis dispensary

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Cannabis NewsMay 18, 2023

No discussion took place on the item before it was voted on at City Council meeting. A new marijuana dispensary in Woodstock could open by the end of this year after the City Council approved a special use permit for one in town at its meeting Tuesday. The approval is not the first that Michigan

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DEA states new rules for synthetic Cannabinoids

DEA states new rules for synthetic Cannabinoids

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Cannabis NewsMay 18, 2023

A recent DEA presentation discusses current challenges with synthetic CBD and delta-8 THC and the possibility of rescheduling. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently announced at the 2023 Supply Chain Conference in Houston, Texas that it will soon unveil new rules regarding synthetic

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Will Google Cloud's new AI Drug development tools impact the Cannabis Industry?

Will Google Cloud's new AI Drug development tools impact the Cannabis Industry?

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Cannabis NewsMay 18, 2023

Google Cloud introduced two new AI-powered tools that hold the potential to revolutionize the drug development process for biotech and pharmaceutical companies. (Benzinga) With the aim of expediting the discovery and advancement of new drugs, these tools, Target and Lead Identification Suite and

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Bill to restrict Marijuana packaging appealing to children gains support in assembly

Bill to restrict Marijuana packaging appealing to children gains support in assembly

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Cannabis NewsMay 18, 2023

A bill to restrict marijuana products with packaging that appeals to children continued to gain traction in the Assembly, with more votes shifting in favor of the bill in recent weeks. Assembly Bill 1207, authored by Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin (D-Thousand Oaks), would build upon provisions in the

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The increasingly absurd illogic of workplace Drug tests

The increasingly absurd illogic of workplace Drug tests

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Cannabis NewsMay 18, 2023

Dr Boehnke is a research assistant professor and the director of controversial compounds in the University of Michigan Medical School’s Department of Anesthesiology and Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center. The email from my new job was not the welcome I was anticipating. I would “be required to

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Minnesota lawmakers finish Marijuana legalization bill

Minnesota lawmakers finish Marijuana legalization bill

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Cannabis NewsMay 17, 2023

A conference committee finished merging the House and Senate bills to legalize recreational use. Minnesota is poised to legalize recreational marijuana as early as this week after legislative negotiators finalized the bill and readied it for last votes in the House and Senate. A conference committee

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Cannabis users require more anesthesia

Cannabis users require more anesthesia

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Cannabis NewsMay 17, 2023

If you're going to sleep for surgery, you should tell the hospital staff about your cannabis use. Dear Stoner: I'm likely to have surgery soon, and my friend told me to be honest about my marijuana use because I'll need more painkillers. I don't take opioids or anything like that, so why would

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Weed legalization has contributed to a decrease in Tobacco use

Weed legalization has contributed to a decrease in Tobacco use

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Cannabis NewsMay 17, 2023

A new study found that tobacco consumption has decreased in states with recreational cannabis legalization. A study published in the Journal of Health Economics addresses the topic of tobacco use in the wake of cannabis legalization. Entitled “Have recreational marijuana laws undermined public

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Supreme Court review for Florida Recreational Cannabis bill set in motion

Supreme Court review for Florida Recreational Cannabis bill set in motion

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Cannabis NewsMay 17, 2023

Legal, recreational cannabis in Florida is one step closer to securing its place on the 2024 ballot, though the state’s attorney general has stated her intent to challenge the proposed amendment in the upcoming Supreme Court review. The political committee Smart & Safe Florida is sponsoring the

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Legalizing Cannabis could make Australia almost $250 million per year

Legalizing Cannabis could make Australia almost $250 million per year

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Cannabis NewsMay 17, 2023

Legalising cannabis in Western Australia could see the state's fortunes boosted by $243,5 million per year in the first five years, according to a report from the University of Western Australia. The report quantified the revenue the state could make through legalising cannabis. It considered data

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14-year-old charged after bringing suspected Cannabis to middle school

14-year-old charged after bringing suspected Cannabis to middle school

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Cannabis NewsMay 17, 2023

CHARLES COUNTY - A Charles County student was charged Tuesday after the 14-year-old was found with marijuana on school grounds, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) said. Deputies said just before 12 p.m., Benjamin Stoddert Middle School administrators said they detected the odour of cannabis

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Weed dispensary coming to Staten Island

Weed dispensary coming to Staten Island

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Cannabis NewsMay 17, 2023

STATEN ISLAND - A Meiers Corners building will be home to a legal weed shop set to open in the coming months, the Advance/ SILive has learned. The business — operating under the name NugHub NY, LLC — is owned by Michael Geterlman, a self-described lifelong Staten Islander, and it will open at 1975

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Singapore hangs 2 Cannabis traffickers

Singapore hangs 2 Cannabis traffickers

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Cannabis NewsMay 17, 2023

A man was hanged at Changi Prison in eastern Singapore at dawn today for trafficking 1.5 kilogrammes of cannabis. He is the second cannabis trafficker to be executed at the prison in just three weeks. The 37-year-old ethnic Malay Singaporean was hanged today after a last-minute plea to stop the

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California’s possibilities of Interstate Cannabis commerce

California’s possibilities of Interstate Cannabis commerce

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Cannabis NewsMay 17, 2023

Despite federal officials dragging their feet on the subject of the many reforms needed in America’s cannabis policies, states that have made billions from statewide cannabis sales are implementing their own lucrative and job-creating policies regardless. Washington and Oregon, two of the first

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Google launches AI Tools to speed up Drug development process

Google launches AI Tools to speed up Drug development process

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Cannabis NewsMay 17, 2023

Google Cloud’s two new AI-powered tools could help biotech and pharmaceutical companies develop new drugs faster. The way drugs are developed is being rewritten as we speak. Discovering and approving new drugs is a lengthy process that requires years of development and a dismal success rate, but

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Thailand’s election results may reverse Cannabis policy

Thailand’s election results may reverse Cannabis policy

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Cannabis NewsMay 16, 2023

The winners of the election may reverse the recent policy that made Thailand the first Asian country to decriminalize recreational cannabis. Thai voters have delivered a surprising and stunning verdict in favor of an opposition party that advocates for significant institutional reforms in the

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Ban on outdoor Pot smoking in Amsterdam’s red light district to begin

Ban on outdoor Pot smoking in Amsterdam’s red light district to begin

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Cannabis NewsMay 16, 2023

The Red Light District prohibition was proposed earlier this year. A new ordinance banning cannabis use on the streets in Amsterdam’s Red Light District is slated to take effect later this month. The ban, officially approved by Amsterdam’s city council last week, will “come into effect from May 25

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Oklahoma Moratorium on new Cannabis businesses extended to 2026

Oklahoma Moratorium on new Cannabis businesses extended to 2026

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Cannabis NewsMay 16, 2023

The new bill renews a moratorium on cannabis business licenses and cracks down on illegal cannabis activity in Oklahoma. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt recently renewed a moratorium on new medical cannabis businesses. Stitt originally signed legislation for the ban in May 2022, which took effect in

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