Legalization bids boost outlook for US cannabis industry

Uncle Sam gave marijuana lovers more reason to celebrate this past week This will make it easier for cannabis companies to do business in states where sales are legal.

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This Year Marks 50 years of 420

This year marks 50 years of the cannabis culture phenomenon, 420. 420 is a term for all things weed. It is celebrated daily at 4:20 (am or pm) by consuming cannabis, but the largest celebrations come on every year April 20th, 4/20.

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New York Legalizes Recreational Marijuana

Yes, it is true. New Yorker’s can now possess up to 3 ounces of marijuana even though sale of recreational-use marijuana won’t be legal for another estimated 18 months, while the State works on regulations. But it goes much further…

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Biden Urged to Expunge Records of Cannabis Offenders

NORML, businesspeople and activists teamed up to urge Biden to make good on his campaign promise to expunge the criminal records of individuals who have been convicted of non-violent marijuana charges.

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Cannabis May Reduce Alcohol Consumption

There was an interesting study about cannabis and alcohol consumption recently conducted by a team out of the University of Colorado at Boulder. In their findings, they concluded that cannabis consumption may decrease alcohol intake by individuals being treated for alcohol abuse. The relationship between alcohol use in conjunction with cannabis is one that has […]

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Cannabis can Lead to Decrease in Opioid Consumption

Can cannabis implementation with chronic pain patients can lead to an overall better quality of life and decrease opioid consumption?

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How Social Media Censorship is killing the Marketplace

It has become clearer than ever that the long reaching arms of social media companies have the power to control the way we express ourselves to the public… Failure to comply with the terms of service can lead to a terrible fate…

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Students with Drug Convictions can now Receive Federal Aid

Students with prior drug convictions are no longer excluded from obtaining federal student aid under a recently approved congressional appropriation package. Although the main goal of this bill is to keep the government appropriately funded, with these unprecedented times we are facing because of COVID19, it creates challenges. Provisions strike a 1998 law, subsection of […]

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Tilray-Aphria Merger Spawns Big Cannabis

In the recent past, buying weed meant meeting a friend of a friend in the back-parking lot of a supermarket only to be left waiting for hours, hoping your herbs would arrive. But now things are changing with the option to buy publicly traded, NASDAQ stock of a multi-billion-dollar Canadian pot conglomerate. Tilray and Aphria, […]

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UN Loosens International Cannabis Classification

2020 has been landmark year in cannabis regulation. Recently, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (which serves as the United Nations central drug policy making body) voted to remove cannabis from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. Coming to this groundbreaking conclusion has the CND now recognizing the therapeutic and medical potential of cannabis.

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