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Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura Starts Cannabis Brand

Canna Law Blog

Former Minnesota Governor and ex-professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is the latest celebrity to start a cannabis brand. Celebrities and cannabis ventures Celebrities have been putting their hats into the further mainstream cannabis industry in droves by starting cannabis ventures, to greatly varying degrees of success.

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Illinois university students create ‘cannabis clubs’

Illinois News Joint

We believe incorporating academia into the cannabis community is one of the best ways to help normalize the plant. This not only includes faculty, administration, and cannabis horticulture courses but also students. One positive trend in academia in Illinois is the creation of registered student organizations (RSO) for “cannabis clubs.”

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Nevada NORML Takes Washington, DC

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However, this time, they’ve taken their advocacy to our nation’s capital for NORML’s National Conference to lobby for reform on the federal level and expanded access to medicinal cannabis, such as The MORE Act and the Veterans Affairs Medicinal Cannabis Research Act of 2019.

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Podcast:Delta 8, CBD, 1% THC, And Other Issues Affecting The Hemp Industry: A Conversation With Eric Steenstra

Cannabis Law Report

In this edition of The 411 on 420, Perkins Coie partner Barak Cohen discusses hemp’s complicated past and promising future with Eric Steenstra, founding member of the Hemp Industries Association, Vice President of the California Hemp Council and President of Vote Hemp, the political advocacy organization that he co-founded in 2000.

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NORML Publish Book Summarizing Hundreds of Studies Assessing the Safety and Efficacy of Cannabis for Patients ….Now Available on Kindle

Cannabis Law Report

NORML is pleased to announce that its newly updated and revised publication, Clinical Applications for Cannabis & Cannabinoids: A Review of the Recent Scientific Literature, 2000 — 2021 , is now available for download on the Kindle app. Proceeds from the purchase of the new book directly fund NORML’s cannabis advocacy efforts.

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Nevada Rules That the Schedule I Classification of Cannabis Is Unconstitutional

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Despite cannabis remaining a Schedule I classification according to the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA), meaning that it has no medicinal value, over 30 states in the United States have legalized it for its medicinal use. The war on drugs facilitated by the federal government has been an utter failure. Why the Change Now?

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California cannabis tax program helps communities recover from the war on drugs

Cannabis Law Report

The CalCRG program uses a cannabis excise and cultivation tax to give out $35.5 The policies and tangent rhetoric led to increasing incarceration of people of color, with African Americans being up to 57 times more likely to be incarcerated than their white counterparts for drug crimes in 2000.