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Can you get evicted for smoking Cannabis at home?

Can you get evicted for smoking Cannabis at home?

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Cannabis NewsNovember 23, 2023

It may be directly addressed in your lease agreement. But if it isn't, there can still be other ways it could get you evicted. There are a lot of questions swirling around the Nov. 7 passage of Issue 2 to legalize recreational marijuana in Ohio. Viewers are asking if they rent, can they be evicted

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Missouri Cannabis industry grapples with drastic changes in regulations

Missouri Cannabis industry grapples with drastic changes in regulations

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Cannabis NewsNovember 23, 2023

Not only are these regulations going to put a damper on what Missouri cannabis consumers know and love about the industry, but other recent adjustments have already started burning holes in customers’ pockets. Cannabis consumers around the state already have or will soon start to see shifts when

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Napoleon Bonaparte Banned Cannabis Because His Soldiers Were Getting Too High

Napoleon Bonaparte Banned Cannabis Because His Soldiers Were Getting Too High

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Cannabis NewsNovember 23, 2023

Ridley Scott’s new film contains many historical inaccuracies to spice up the conqueror’s life, none of them wilder than hard fact. In Ridley Scott’s historical epic Napoleon , the titular French conqueror, played by Joaquin Phoenix, marches into the deserts of Egypt and orders his soldiers to aim

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Legal Marijuana putting drug recognition experts to the test to keep roads safe

Legal Marijuana putting drug recognition experts to the test to keep roads safe

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Cannabis NewsNovember 22, 2023

Legal marijuana is making it harder for local law enforcement officers to keep Rhode Island's roads safe. There's been a dangerous uptick of traffic related deaths this year. In September there were 288 total DUI cases, 71 consented to a chemical test, 206 refused. Sergeant Anthony McHugh with the

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Japan Takes Major Step Towards Cannabis Reform

Japan Takes Major Step Towards Cannabis Reform

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Cannabis NewsNovember 21, 2023

Japan Takes Major Step Towards Cannabis Reform, Opening Opportunities for CBD and Medical Cannabis Industries. Japan, one of the world’s strictest and most hostile countries in regard to cannabis, recently took a major step towards reform, potentially providing a major boom for the country’s CBD

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Driver rams car into Union City Cannabis dispensary

Driver rams car into Union City Cannabis dispensary

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Cannabis NewsNovember 21, 2023

The driver of a car crashed into a Union City cannabis dispensary early Tuesday morning, leaving products and merchandise scattered all over the ground. The car was abandoned at Flor dispensary on Courthouse Drive in Union Landing Shopping Center – it's unclear if the people inside ran away or were

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New York Cannabis Control Board Votes to Impose Cap on THC Allowed in Hemp Products

New York Cannabis Control Board Votes to Impose Cap on THC Allowed in Hemp Products

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Cannabis NewsNovember 21, 2023

New York’s Cannabis Control Board (CCB) voted to approve a string of new measures last week which will see a cap on the amount of THC allowed in hemp products, establish fees for licensed cannabis labs, and renew medical cannabis registrations. In July this year, the CCB voted to file an ‘emergency

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GOP Ohio State Senate President Says Ohioans Didn’t Understand Cannabis Legalization Initiative

GOP Ohio State Senate President Says Ohioans Didn’t Understand Cannabis Legalization Initiative

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Cannabis NewsNovember 21, 2023

Ohio State Senate President Matt Huffman says he is coordinating bipartisan efforts to modify Ohio’s recently approved cannabis legalization law before its main provisions take effect on Dec 7. Huffman, a Republican who contends the initiative is lacking in detail, implied Ohio voters were either

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Devon & Cornwall PCC wants tougher police action on Cannabis

Devon & Cornwall PCC wants tougher police action on Cannabis

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Cannabis NewsNovember 17, 2023

Police action against class B and C drugs has been branded "pathetically weak" by Devon and Cornwall's Police and Crime Commissioner. Alison Hernandez said too much focus is placed on deaths from class A drugs such as heroin, rather than enforcing the laws around cannabis. She said more people are

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American Hemp Brands Elevates Presence in Hemp Product Industry

American Hemp Brands Elevates Presence in Hemp Product Industry

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Cannabis NewsNovember 17, 2023

Chilco River Holdings' Subsidiary, American Hemp Brands, Forges Strategic Collaborations and Positions Itself for Global Growth in Hemp Product Manufacturing. Chilco River Holdings INC, a multi-faceted holding company focused on developing high-growth businesses within diverse industries, announces

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The National Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association unveils its first board of directors, aiming to promote opportunities and equity for Indigenous individuals

The National Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association unveils its first board of directors, aiming to promote opportunities and equity for Indigenous individuals

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Cannabis NewsNovember 17, 2023

The National Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association (ICIA) has announced an expansion to a growing interest in the cultivation and innovation of the Indigenous Cannabis Industry. Recently the Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association, the national Indigenous-led nonprofit creating opportunities for

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Federal lawsuit reveals behind-the-scenes saga of failed Missouri marijuana testing lab

Federal lawsuit reveals behind-the-scenes saga of failed Missouri marijuana testing lab

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Cannabis NewsNovember 15, 2023

The rare glimpse into how Missouri medical marijuana business applicants came together echoes more the recent controversy involving social equity licenses. After Missouri voters legalized medical marijuana in November 2018, Jefferson City lobbyist Jeffrey Altmann went to work. Altmann knew out-of

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Spain’s confusing Cannabis policies spark similar problems faced by US states

Spain’s confusing Cannabis policies spark similar problems faced by US states

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Cannabis NewsNovember 15, 2023

Legal confusion over the drug’s status in regions like Catalonia and open European borders are allowing the illicit market to flourish. The cannabis cafe in Barcelona’s hip El Poblenou neighborhood could easily be a coffee shop in Brooklyn or a brewery in Seattle. A dark hallway and security desk

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Oklahoma task force seizes 36 tons of Illegal Marijuana

Oklahoma task force seizes 36 tons of Illegal Marijuana

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Cannabis NewsNovember 15, 2023

The Oklahoma Attorney General’s office says it is among the largest marijuana seizures in state history. The Organized Crime Task Force (OCTF) found about 72,000 pounds of black-market marijuana inside a metal barn on Nov. 9 in Wagoner County. Attorney General Gentner Drummond created the task force

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Pro-Cannabis alliance hires first firm as reform momentum builds

Pro-Cannabis alliance hires first firm as reform momentum builds

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Cannabis NewsNovember 14, 2023

The Cannabis Freedom Alliance has hired its first lobbying firm, the Bose Public Affairs Group, to work on issues related to marijuana reform. The coalition, which includes the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity and the R Street Institute, aims to end federal prohibitions on and criminalization of

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Petition calls to allow more potent Cannabis edibles

Petition calls to allow more potent Cannabis edibles

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Cannabis NewsNovember 14, 2023

Advocates want raise the current limit from 10 mg of THC to 100 mg. OTTAWA — Canadian cannabis advocates are calling on the federal government to do more to fight illicit sellers by allowing for stronger edibles to be sold by licensed retailers. The call comes in the form of a petition in the House

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California wants to rollback environmental rules for Cannabis

California wants to rollback environmental rules for Cannabis

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Cannabis NewsNovember 14, 2023

Legalizing recreational cannabis in California was supposed to bring illegal growers out of the shadows and into a robust, safe and regulated market. When voters approved Proposition 64 in 2016, the measure promised to end the damage to our lands and water that had long been part of the illegal

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NYC Bank Funds Over 50 Illegal Chinese Marijuana Grow Houses in Rural Maine

NYC Bank Funds Over 50 Illegal Chinese Marijuana Grow Houses in Rural Maine

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Cannabis NewsNovember 14, 2023

Asian transnational criminal organizations operate more than 270 illegal marijuana cultivation sites in Maine, according to a leaked US Department of Homeland Security memo. An investigation by the Maine Wire has identified more than 100 of those sites, as previously reported. Of those properties —

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New York Senators say they now know what’s wrong with the state’s Cannabis Industry. What will they do next?

New York Senators say they now know what’s wrong with the state’s Cannabis Industry. What will they do next?

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Cannabis NewsNovember 13, 2023

New York State Senate Subcommittee on Cannabis Reevaluates Enforcement and Social Equity Investment Fund Amid Slow Market Rollout. After hearing from state cannabis regulators, law enforcement leaders and adult-use licensees, members of the New York State Senate Subcommittee on Cannabis are now

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CBD industry faces ‘existential crisis’

CBD industry faces ‘existential crisis’

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Cannabis NewsNovember 13, 2023

Bethany Gomez, managing director of the Brightfield Group, spoke with NutraIngredients-USA about the difficulties the cannabidiol industry is experiencing when it comes to defining itself. “The CBD industry is always in motion. It's always changing, moving, fluctuating. Right now, it's really facing

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