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Japan: Ace Attorney series will be used in campaigns to curb cannabis use by “young people”

Cannabis Law Report

Capcom has been working with regional governments in Japan since 2009 in the prevention of crime and raising civic awareness, such as raising the awareness of gubernatorial elections (turnout among young people in Japanese elections is low). Marijuana remains illegal for both recreational and medicinal use.

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Oregon NORML, In Partnership With The Oregon Justice League, Files “Legalization Justice Act of 2020”

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She generated international headlines when she opened the World Famous Cannabis Cafe in 2009, the nation’s first public-facing cannabis consumption lounge. “I would sum up our policy as ‘do the right thing’ Let’s create legal cannabis policy that acknowledges both science and reality,” Bacca says.

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Positive Cannabis Drug Tests in the Workplace at the Highest in 25 years

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Currently, 23 states have legalized the recreational use of marijuana, including California, Massachusetts, Arizona, and Washington, D.C. They also stated that there has been a steady increase in positive post-accident cannabis tests since 2012, when the first states legalized recreational marijuana. As many states across the U.S.

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Illinois’ top cannabis official Toi Hutchinson leaves post to head national lobbying group MPP

Cannabis Law Report

Pritzker’s senior adviser for cannabis control, stepped down to become president and CEO of the Marijuana Policy Project , or MPP, which took credit for writing much of the legalization law in Illinois. Hutchinson had been a state senator from Olympia Fields, representing the south suburbs from 2009 to 2019.

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In states with legal cannabis, teen use triggers concerns

Cannabis Chronicles

DENVER — The first two states to legalize recreational marijuana are starting to grapple with teenagers’ growing use of highly potent pot, even as both boost the industry and reap huge tax windfalls from its sales. Policy seems to have outpaced science, and in the best of all possible worlds, science would allow us to set policy.”.

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New American Medical Association Study Shows Cannabis Legalization Not Linked to Increased Psychosis

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Thirty-eight states have legalized cannabis for medical use, while 19 states permit adult recreational use. In some cases, legalization policies only allowed home-grown cannabis or had not yet implemented commercial sales. Census figures (2002-2009) as well as American Community Survey totals (2010–2017).

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Can You Use Marijuana to Treat PTSD?

Cannabis Law Report

Before the current recreational marijuana legalization movement began, leaders in New Mexico already had approved cannabis to treat PTSD. The 2009 law ranks as the first in the United States to specifically added PTSD to the list of conditions the state allowed cannabis to treat. These findings substantiate their claims.”.