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Is Industrial Hemp Production Coming Back To Turkey?

Cannabis Law Report

Industrial hemp was cultivated in Turkey’s humid Black Sea region until strict anti-narcotics laws were introduced in the 1970s: many people today attribute the change in policy to pressure from the US. Even now, cannabis remains a taboo topic, and penalties for recreational use can be as high as two years in prison.

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Alert: Invitation to Continued Discussion on Evaluating THC compounds: What is and is not “impairing”?

Cannabis Law Report

The public and the cannabis industry are invited to a June 21, 2022 discussion to help shape future policy and rules related to how LCB and state law will define what are “impairing” and “non-impairing” THC compounds and cannabinoids. A year ago, the LCB Board issued Policy Statement Number PS-21-01 about THC compounds. How to Join.

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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. In all, PubMed now cites over 38,000 scientific papers on the topic of cannabis.

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Webinar 9 December: Ethics, Safety, and Abuse in Psychedelic Medicine

Cannabis Law Report

Join Chacruna and mental health experts and activists, Allison Feduccia, PhD, Vilmarie Fraguada Narloch, PsyD, Kylea Taylor, MS, LMFT, and Emma Knighton, MA, LMHC, to discuss topics around standards of care and accountability for practitioners in the psychedelic-therapy space, addressing issues of power, hierarchy, and abuse.

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Bill Clinton 1992 I Smoked Weed But Didn’t Inhale – 2022 I Said CBD Sounds Good But My Media Team Doesn’t Want To It To Be Public Knowledge

Cannabis Law Report

Former President Bill Clinton has apparently been hearing a lot about the therapeutic potential of CBD products for pain management lately, and, according to a now-deleted media report, said at a recent conference appearance that broad interest in the topic should spur regulators to develop standards for the cannabinoid.

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How long does a weed high last? New studies can’t agree

The Cannigma

This data is particularly important for drivers, would-be drivers, policy makers, and anyone who is involved in carrying out or supervising safety sensitive tasks. Determining intoxication and impairment with cannabis is notoriously difficult and is nearly impossible to peg it to a per se limit of THC or its metabolites in the blood.

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Article: Who is Impacted if Marijuana is Reclassified as a Schedule II Drug

Cannabis Law Report

sat on the Denver County Court bench 2000-2015. She is currently a law school professor teaching Marijuana and the Law at California Western School of Law and researcher under a contract with NHTSA and NORC on the topic of the prosecution of drugged driving cases. That is another topic to be explored. [i] Celeste (ret.)