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Understanding Medical Marijuana Laws in California

MMJ Recs

Legal Framework for Medical Marijuana in California California’s legal history towards establishing a comprehensive legal framework for medical marijuana began in 1996 with the passing of Proposition 215, also known as the Compassionate Use Act.

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Ode to a Vanishing Handcraft

Project CBD

Such simplicity reflects the book’s inner beauty, which documents the history of a disappearing handcraft, that of traditional hemp cultivation and fabric production. It was almost taboo to talk about hemp, because it was intimately connected to drugs and was banned in Sweden [until 2003],” she told Project CBD.

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The DEA Does Not Want You To Worry About Its New Hemp Rule. Don’t Take the Bait!

Canna Law Blog

Shortly after, in March 2003, the DEA published two new Final Rules regarding industrial hemp products. Given the history of the DEA, especially when it comes to cannabis, we should not give the agency the benefit of the doubt. Hemp Industries Assoc. DEA , 333 F.3d 3d 1082 (9th Cir.2003).

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Medicinal Value & Health Benefits of Cannabis

Otherside Farms

Use of Cannabis in Ancient History. When we trace the history, we see that cannabis was also used to treat rheumatism, fever, and gout. Back in 2003, in a lab experiment, epileptic rats were given synthetic marijuana extracts, and it was observed that the seizures had stopped in approximately ten hours. Can Control Seizures.

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Sacha Baron Cohen Sues Dispensary for $9 Million Over Billboard Ad

SpeedWeed

Baron Cohen interviewed with Dan Skye for High Times for the October 2003 cover of the magazine—but interviewed as Ali G, his fictional stoner character, not himself. While the English actor’s characters Ali G, Borat and Brüno are wildly silly, he enjoyed an ivy league education, studying History with a focus on anti-semitism at Cambridge.

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Bangkok Post Report: Cannabis clinics set to mushroom – currently 500 in operation

Cannabis Law Report

Ed: this was introduced in 2003 by the eponymous Canadian engineer who reportedly used it to cure his skin cancer and shares knowledge on how to extract the oil for free on his website]. In our clinics, we use traditional medical doctors to diagnose patients’ conditions and learn their background history.

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Searching for the origin of Blue Dream marijuana strain

SpeedWeed

It’s one day post-Memorial Day 2021, so “hot vax Summer” has officially begun, and I’m smoking Blue Dream in the city that launched the globally renowned cultivar in 2003. It shows up around 2003. In 2018, it made history in the U.S. Few places on Earth have a cannabis culture as deep and influential.

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