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Paper: Racial Capitalism and the African American Experience Entering the Cannabis Industry By Dr. Ayoka Nurse

Cannabis Law Report

The current public policies in local and state cannabis ordinance and equity programs may enhance racial disparities if they follow the pattern of exclusion and criminalization that encompass past policies promoted as beneficial to African Americans but uphold racial capitalistic practices. Background of Study. Purpose of the Study.

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Grading the Presidential Candidates on Marijuana: Michael Bloomberg

Canna Law Blog

Last fall, we ran a 13-part series taking a hard look at each of the 2020 presidential candidates’ history and views related to marijuana. Past legislative history : How many marijuana-related bills did this candidate introduce, sponsor or sign? He won reelection in 2005 and again in 2009. What about the War on Drugs?

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Volteface Takes A Look At Tory Leadership Candidates & Attitudes To Drugs – Spoiler It’s Suitably Depressing

Cannabis Law Report

The incoming PM will have a host of drug policy issues that require his or her urgent attention, from ending the drug death epidemic, to expanding access to cannabis based medicines on the NHS beyond the current 3 prescriptions in 4 years. Certainly one of the candidates whom drug policy reformers can have more hope in. Here we go!

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Paper: The transition of cannabis into the mainstream of Australian healthcare: framings in professional medical publications

Cannabis Law Report

The Cannabis sativa plant has an incredibly multi-layered, rich, and versatile history of human uses for food and fibre, as well as recreational, and religious and spiritual purposes throughout the world (McPartland and Hegman 2018 ; Aldrich 1997 ; Touw 1981 ; Li 1974 ; Bonini et al. 2018 ; Frankhauser 2008 ).

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Lighting Up Florida Medical Marijuana People: The Crusaders, Part 7

Cannabis Law Report

Congress is The Most Marijuana-Friendly Congress In History. They are paying attention, slowly formulating bits and pieces of vital international, federal, and state public marijuana policy. Florida has ‘all-time high’ support for recreational pot, but will it be on the ballot? Think again. 2008), and since 2003, the U.S.

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The Immortality Key: Lost on The Road to Eleusis

SpeedWeed

In this article Chris Bennett, who has written about some of these same themes and areas of history offers his views on where the book wins and fails. Warning, biases ahead…. To be clear, this is as much of a ‘response’ and ‘discussion’ about The Immortality Key as a ‘review.’

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The Marijuana Conspiracy

Cannabis Info

There was even a time in history for over 200 years when you could pay your taxes in America with hemp. In the mid 1930s, the M-word was created to tarnish the good image and phenomenal history of the hemp plant…as you will read. Realize the history that created it. seconds someone in the world dies of hunger. Get together.