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When adult-use eclipses medical: How recreational cannabis legalization has undermined patient care

The Cannigma

Over time, advocates for medical cannabis reform successfully established regulated systems that prioritized patient access and well-being (The Guardian, 2018; American Journal of Managed Care [AJMC], 2022). However, when her state legalized recreational cannabis, her local dispensary stopped carrying most medical-specific products.

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Virginia, Marijuana, and How Medical Legalization May Unfold in the South

NORML

The American South has been one of the toughest (weed) cookies to crack when it comes to marijuana reform, despite legalization’s wildfire spread over the past half-decade. To be fair, Democrats didn’t mention weed legalization on their party’s official platform until 2016.). We need to do more.

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Marijuana Legalization Linked to Decline in Youth Drug Treatment Admissions

CannaMD

As marijuana legalization continues to expand across the country, scientists are interested in tracking how legalization influences adolescents. Researchers from Temple University sought to find out how recreational marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado influenced adolescent treatment admissions for cannabis.

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Is weed legal in New Zealand?

The Cannigma

Medical: legal Recreational: illegal. New Zealand legalized medical cannabis in 2018 but recreational cannabis is still illegal, following the narrow defeat of a referendum in late 2020 that would have legalized adult-use cannabis in the country. Despite legalization bills losing a majority of the vote, 48.4% of voters.

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Philippino Fear Factor Winner Spends Six Years In Prison For Cannabis Possession & Now Forms Asia’s First Legalize Cannabis Party

Cannabis Law Report

If that isn’t a CV for starting up a cannabis legalization party in Duterte’s Philippines we don’t know what is! In 2008, he won the first season of the Philippine edition of Fear Factor. It is this same brutal policy that prevents patients from accessing cannabis as medicine.”. The News Lens reports.

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The Good Earth Organics, Inc. CEO Announces July 23 as the Final Day of Its Reg A+ Crowdfunding Campaign and Formalizes Plans for a Public Listing of Its Common Shares

Cannabis Law Report

Prospective investors are invited to access the offering, which has raised over $2.4 Good Earth Organics was founded in 2008 in Cave Junction, Oregon, part of the renowned Emerald Triangle cannabis growing region. million from more than 1,400 investors, before it ends on July 23, 11:59pm ET at [link]. ABOUT GOOD EARTH ORGANICS.

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Weedmaps Dodges Class-Action Lawsuit by Implementing New Advertising Policy

Canna Law Blog

Weedmaps’ announcement follows months of complaints from licensed cannabis businesses of harm caused by Weedmaps’ inclusion of ads for unlicensed companies – namely, that allowing such companies’ product on the site really served to undercut the legal cannabis market.