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The history and science of psychedelics: from acid and shrooms to ketamine and salvia

The Cannigma

History: Magic mushrooms have likely been consumed as long as humans have roamed the earth – or possibly longer, according to Terrance McKenna’s “Stoned Ape Theory,” which suggests human evolution and language development was expedited by these mushrooms. History: Bufo is a slang term for the poisonous secretions of certain toads.

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CCT CET: Responsible Persons, “Collection & Remittance of Cannabis Excise Tax [“CET”] & Cannabis Cultivation Tax [“CCT”]

Cannabis Law Report

The weakness relates to the collection and remittance of Cannabis Excise Tax [“CET”] and Cannabis Cultivation Tax [“CCT”]. When the Distributor role was created, the California Legislature decided to place the majority of the collection and remittance responsibility on it [1]. The amount of cultivation tax.

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US to ban Backwoods, Swishers and other flavored blunt wraps

SpeedWeed

A collection of flavored tobacco cigar leaf ‘blunt wraps’ (via International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020). Are we repeating history? The FDA said their flavored cigarette ban in 2009 might also have drove blunt wrap adoption.

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California: Department of Cannabis Control Names Leadership Team

Cannabis Law Report

Collectively, these dedicated public servants bring extensive experience from the state and local level to the leadership team. She held multiple positions in the Office of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom from 2009 to 2010, including Budget Office Policy Assistant, Director of Scheduling and Deputy Board Liaison.

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“Lung Damaging Agent” Approved By Health Canada

SpeedWeed

The research was done by the California scientists and professionals also found that chloropicrin exposure was only tested on young, healthy adults with no history of chronic respiratory illnesses, and having not had smoked, used recreational drugs, or had any evidence of sickness within a year of the study.

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This real-life ‘Marijuana Conspiracy’ is stranger than fiction

SpeedWeed

But that’s hardly how things went for the 20 young women who actually spent three months in 1972 isolated in a Canadian research hospital while they participated in what the Toronto Star called “one of the weirdest scientific experiments in this country’s history.”. A grand experiment that got buried. The results go conveniently missing.

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An Epoch of OG: The OG Kush family genealogy

SpeedWeed

This August marks 25 years since the duo used that surviving cutting to start writing OG’s chapter in the history books. History made: A small, crowded, 1996 Silverlake, CA OG Kush grow by Josh D. But even in 2009, if you were growing heat OG and charging less than $3,500 per wholesale pound, it was frowned on by your grower peers.

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