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Surgeon General’s Advisory Highlights Need for Further Cannabis Regulation, Not Criminalization

NORML

In fact, it is precisely because marijuana use may pose potential risks to certain consumers — for example, adolescents or people with a family history of psychiatric illness — that NORML believes that lawmakers should regulate it accordingly. percent to 12.5

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

Cannabis Law Report

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). Data were analyzed based on the central question, and three themes emerged. Central Research Question. qualitative research procedure. Hirilman, G.

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CBD Ban: Brits Take Up Fight And Send Lawyers To Brussels

Cannabis Law Report

and derived products containing cannabinoids are considered novel foods as a history of consumption has not been demonstrated. It has also recently began flexing extra-territoriality muscles in regards to data regulation, positioning itself as a world police of consumer data, to the chagrin of Silicon Valley’s luminaries.

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Hollister Biosciences Inc. Announces strategic initiatives including a planned rebrand, executive and board updates

Cannabis Law Report

I have a long history working in similar environments in the cannabis and the spirits industry during my time with Aphria (now Tilray) and Diageo. He has an extensive history in executive leadership and governance roles of large, diverse organizations.

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

Cannabis Law Report

At the same time, the outlook on cannabis research data is largely positive. It also has an extensive and diverse history of medicinal use. Politicians, policymakers, and legislators are important audiences who are influenced and, of course, specifically targeted by medical journals (Stryker 2002 ). Data collection.

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MAPS Is 36 Years Old – Doblin Provides Precis Timeline of the Organization

Cannabis Law Report

To celebrate this, we invite you to take a trip down memory lane and review highlights from every year of our history. For over three decades, we’ve been working to achieve mass mental health throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Rick Doblin founded MAPS as an official 501(c)(3) non-profit research organization on April 8, 1986.

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NO BRAINER: CBD AND THC FOR HEAD INJURIES

Green Relief

In 2002, the Journal of Neuroscience reported that the impact of induced cerebral ischemia is much more severe in CB1 knockout mice than in “wild type” mice with cannabinoid receptors. Preliminary data suggests that a synergistic combination of CBD and hypothermia may produce the best results. CBD for CTE. Reference [link].

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