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The best new marijuana strains to grow in 2021

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North America’s weed gardeners, big and small, have begun their annual run on marijuana seed stores. We’re getting slammed,” said Nathaniel Pennington, founder of seed leader Humboldt Seed Company in California. He drops seed packs at dispensaries from mountainous McKinleyville, CA, to postcard-perfect Pacific Beach, San Diego.

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Searching for the origin of Blue Dream marijuana strain

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It’s one day post-Memorial Day 2021, so “hot vax Summer” has officially begun, and I’m smoking Blue Dream in the city that launched the globally renowned cultivar in 2003. Marine fog casts a gray haze and fills the air with palpable moisture on the coastal bluff overlooking the vast blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean. They’ll always sell it.

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Just desserts: The Cookies and Cakes family genealogy

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Californians legalized medical marijuana in 1996, and personal defenses against cannabis prosecution had become collective defenses—green-lighting the first dispensaries and more grows. Now for the headliner: Cookies and Cakes! Why do people wait two hours in line to spend $70 on an eighth-ounce of weed—in the middle of a pandemic?

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Taxation Of A Medical Marijuana Business – How Will The Ninth Circuit Hold?

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Also during those years, California allowed the collective or cooperative cultivation of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Deductions. All taxpayers – including “drug traffickers” – pay tax only on their gross income, which is equal to the excess of their gross receipts over their cost of goods sold (“COGS”). Deduction v.

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Psychedelic Invest’s 100 Most Influential People in Psychedelics List

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They write… As the global COVID-19 pandemic drags on around the world, the damaging effects to mental health are becoming more and more apparent. With a 25% increase in suicide rates in young adults and over 50% of all adults reporting some type of mental health issue (depression, anxiety, stress, etc.), Source: [link].

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California: Which Set of Books?

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of Tax and Fee Administration [“CDTFA”] is the administrative agency for business entities that are subject both to Sales Tax, and to Cannabis Cultivation TAX [“CCT”] and Cannabis Excise Tax [“CET”]. The predecessor to CDTFA, the Board of Equalization [“BOE”] was the agency that administered Sales Tax before CCT and CET.