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

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From the systemic history of racism in the United States, African Americans exclusion from economic opportunities leads to maximizing profits for the White elite (Hirschman, 2019). Before the civil war, there were more cannabis farms than cotton farms (Green, 2005). The global implications classify cannabis as the new colonization.

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It’s Underage Drinking That Impairs Brain Development, Not Cannabis Use

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Prohibitionists and fear-mongering media outlets often try to discourage popular support for cannabis reform by claiming that underage cannabis use can cause brain damage. In 2012, a team of Duke University researchers released a study suggesting that people who used cannabis as teens had lower IQs than those who did not.

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The LGBTQ Leaders in Cannabis

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We put out requests on social media and reached out to Public Relations professionals to see who identified with the community and consented to be included. Seattle resident JJ McKay is the founder/ publisher of The Fresh Toast , one of the largest media content consumer-facing cannabis media companies in the US and Canada.

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Just desserts: The Cookies and Cakes family genealogy

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The Cookies story spans the recent histories of cannabis, weed law reform, San Francisco, and hip-hop. Californians legalized medical marijuana in 1996, and personal defenses against cannabis prosecution had become collective defenses—green-lighting the first dispensaries and more grows. An early photo of GSC from 2012.

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

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Media representations can offer insights into the nature of the discourse about new medical products and therapies and how ideas and understandings about social phenomena become constructed. This article analyses media representations of medicinal cannabis in Australian medical publications. years (Atakan 2012 ). Background.

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An Epoch of OG: The OG Kush family genealogy

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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. We asked Jodrey if OG Kush was the most prolifically grown strain in the history of the Emerald Triangle. Destroyed the competition’.

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Psychedelic Invest’s 100 Most Influential People in Psychedelics List

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Our proprietary ranking system takes into account: Social reach (social media, blogs, podcasts, publications, etc.). Through his social media outlets, podcast, blog, and interviews, Tim has educated hundreds of millions of people about psychedelics. This list is focused on those who have had the largest impact for 2021. . Followers.