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New Hampshire Close to Legal Adult Use Cannabis

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While the Granite State decriminalized the possession of cannabis in 2017, it is still a fineable offense, and in any case only applies where the amount of cannabis does not exceed 3/4 oz. New Hampshire is halfway to legal adult use cannabis, following the approval of House Bill 639 on April 6 by a wide margin of 272-109.

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NORML: “Analysis: Racial Disparities in Marijuana Possession Arrests Becoming More Pronounced in Prohibition States”

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A team of researchers affiliated with Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk and with Saint Louis University in Missouri assessed marijuana possession arrest trends for White people and for and Black people over a 20-year span (January 2000-December 2019) in states with and without marijuana policy changes. Source: [link].

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Which States Are Voting on Psychedelics?

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Johns Hopkins University first received regulatory approval for psychedelic research in the year 2000. Psilocybin Policies Around the Nation Let’s explore where psilocybin is legal, decriminalized, and on the ballot across U.S. Decriminalized Decriminalization does not mean psilocybin is legal.

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Canada: The Constitutional Right to Marijuana in Canada: R v Parker

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Publisher: Law Now. If a rule of criminal law precludes a person from obtaining appropriate medical treatment when his or her life or health is in danger, then the state has intervened and this intervention constitutes a violation of that man’s or that woman’s security of the person …. R v Parker , [2000] OJ No 2787 (ONCA) at para 106.

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Nevada Rules That the Schedule I Classification of Cannabis Is Unconstitutional

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” Since 2000 , when regulated medical cannabis became available to patients in the state, the Nevada State Board of Pharmacy has continued to list cannabis alongside other illicit substances such as methamphetamine and heroin. For some people it’s a medicine or a good time on a Friday night, and for some people it was a felony.

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Akanda Partners with Cookies to Bring the Cannabis Brand and High THC Strains to European Consumers

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The fact that Portugal decriminalized drugs back in the early 2000’s and people in the U.S. We can’t wait to introduce the brand to consumers in Portugal, and strains to patients throughout Europe,” said Akanda’s CEO Tej Virk. are still being locked up for cannabis 20 years later, shows the world, especially the U.S.,

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History of Marijuana in Mexico

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His idea was to associate marijuana with crime and thus activate the prohibitionist laws that began to be in force in the state of California in 1913 and with the passage of time were spreading nationwide, making Mexico passed the law against marijuana in 1920 and with it its production, consumption and export.

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