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NJ Lawmakers Look To Introduce Legislation Banning Cannabis Consumption By Specific Workers – 4 Bills Submitted So Far

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how alcohol consumption isn’t legislated in the same way. Robert Singer (R-Ocean), would amend the state’s recreational marijuana law to ban cannabis consumption for any employee who operates heavy machinery or uses weapons, or whose use of cannabis would “put the public at risk.” It’s funny (not ha! introduced.

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Mondaq Article: South Africa: Cannabis: balancing Competing Interests

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The Traditional Health Practitioners Act 22 of 2007, has legitimised the practice of indigenous health care system leading to a growing informal or semi-formal trade sector, in which a large number of medicinal plants are sold as crude, unprocessed plant material, including cannabis.

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Women Paved the Way for Mexico’s Cannabis Legalization Movement, and Here’s How They Did It

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They’ve provided vital health information on the benefits and effects of cannabis, kept followers up to date on how cannabis culture is evolving, and visibilized responsible consumption and users of the plant — all of which are essential in combating mainstream media’s deleterious and criminal portrayal of weed.

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Legalization of Cannabis 

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Cannabis, like cigarettes and alcohol, would therefore be available in stores and consumption at will by the entire public. million) and 2007. Marijuana sales in Colorado and Washington have been higher than projected in recent years, resulting in increased tax collections. percent or 16.7 million) than in 2008 (6.1

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New Study Says. Not One California Dispensary Caught Selling to Minors

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The results of these studies suggest that cannabis consumption negatively impacts driving performance, which is of particular concern when compounded with youths’ relative inexperience driving and propensity for risk-taking (Hartman and Huestis, 2013, Leadbeater et al., 2007, Shults et al., 2001, Voas et al., Asbridge et al.

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Meadowlands: Update from Local Regulators with the Cannabis Czars of Los Angeles, San Francisco…

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The panel covered a wide range of topics local regulators are currently dealing with, including reconciling local and state regulations, enforcement of illicit businesses, license caps, equity and diversity, delivery, onsite consumption, and, of course, taxes. 43:20) What is going on in your respective cities with onsite consumption ?

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

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Authors of texts may use more surreptitious, and sometimes unconscious, literary devices such as rhetoric, trope, metaphor, or juxtaposition—techniques that evoke moral positions, predictions of possible effects, and prescribe solutions (Entman 1993 ; Johnson-Cartee 2005 ; Weaver 2007 ). Data collection. London: Sage; 2007.