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CO’s Gun Rights Proposal, MD’s Rec Success, & NM’s Little Amsterdam

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Maryland celebrates one year of recreational sales, “Little Amsterdam” pops up on the Texas-New Mexico border, and voters advocate to empower cannabis consumers in their Second Amendment right. However, particularly with the HSS call to reschedule cannabis, both cannabis and gun advocacy groups are pushing back on this law.

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Guardian Article: UK cannabis campaigners take note: in the US, change came from below

Cannabis Law Report

This is MedMen, part of a national chain of quality pot shops that constitute the normal now that cannabis is authorised for recreational and medical use in California and 16 other states. Like Britain, many US states started off attempting to restrict legalisation to medical use. Read on at .

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DEA Reports Southern Border Pot Busts Down 80% Since 2013

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Both Colorado and Washington legalized the production and sale of marijuana for recreational use in 2012, and since then 13 more states have also legalized adult-use cannabis. “In The decline since recreational marijuana laws have gone into effect in some states is staggering. million kilograms were seized,” the DEA reports.

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Major Crime Rates Unaffected by Marijuana Legalization, According to Study

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Researchers chose them because they legalized the drug in 2012, well ahead of their (currently) nine counterparts. Some politicians and advocacy groups have used these data to support their positions for and against legalization.”. This gave them the widest berth for any trends in crime to fully establish themselves.

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

Cannabis Law Report

He has been an approved Bar Advocacy Trainer for 10 years and was appointed as counsel at the United Nations (ICTR) in 2005 and Queen’s Counsel in 2010. Cannabis lawyers are heading to Brussels next week to challenge a recent decision by the European Union to reclassify food products containing cannabidiol (CBD) and prohibit their sale.

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

Cannabis Law Report

After the Mexican Revolution in 1910, there was a fear that the influx of Mexican immigrants would increase recreational use (Green, 2005). Cotton plantation owners promoted cotton products, and society began to look at hemp clothing as inferior (Green, 2005). Refer Madness [Motion Picture]. United States: 2nd Stage. Hirschman, D.,

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Medical Pot on Campus: Colleges Say No and Face Lawsuits

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Asked about an Arizona Supreme Court ruling last year that overturned a 2012 state law that made possession or use of marijuana on college campuses a crime, Lambrakis said the school is in the process of reviewing its policies and will not change them in the meantime. Thirty-three states and Washington, D.C.,

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