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40 Incredible Marijuana Statistics

The Herb Collective

In 2013, of the estimated 22 million pounds of US grown marijuana each year, Kentucky, California, Tennessee, Hawaii, and Washington grew roughly 80% of all crops. Million in Medicare was saved in 2013 after states implemented medical marijuana laws. million edible marijuana products sold in the same year. (Source: Leafly) 3.

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World Wide Weed: Risks and Best Practices for Advertising State Legal Cannabis on the Internet

Cannabis Law Report

A user located in Los Angeles could see listings for around 100 area storefronts, and ads for “deals nearby” on cannabis flower, extract, edibles, and other products. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) arrested 30,476 suspects for federal drug offenses while state and local law enforcement arrested 1,328,457 suspects for drug offenses.”).

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Delta-8 pirates are scamming consumers and legit brands—and the feds don’t care

SpeedWeed

In fact, the seed-to-sale producer doesn’t even make edibles. The sticker bearing the Delta 8 Oils logo was placed on several edibles being sold at the Southern California smoke shop 500 miles away. . Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently moved to counter that argument. . DEA’s July 2021 update. Not so much.

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AAFP ( American Academy of Family Physicians) Releases Marijuana, Cannabinoids Position Paper

Cannabis Law Report

According to the 2018 National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Monitoring the Future Survey (MTF), daily, past month, past year, and lifetime marijuana use among 8 th graders has declined, and remained unchanged in 10 th and 12 th graders, when compared to the 2013 MTF survey. and popularity of edibles. and 2.3%, respectively.

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Report: “Key pharmacological differences between side effects of refined, pharmaceutical CBD formulations and whole plant extracts:”

Cannabis Law Report

It has the same onset time of 60-90 min as cannabis edibles but only lasts 2-4 hours: many patients report edible cannabis made using the whole plant lasting 6-8 hours or more and find Marinol to be an inferior product (29,30). 2013 Sep;36(9):2530-5. 32: United States DEA. TIEMANN, MPH, MS, RD BRUCE W. Diabetes Care.

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Buzzes & Bummers: 2018 Was a Wild Ride in the World of Cannabis

SpeedWeed

It was fast tracked through the approval process in response to parents of severely epileptic children pushing for a way to legally use CBD, after seeing it work wonders for children profiled in a 2013 CNN documentary called Weed , hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta. “I think the reefer madness crowd—you guys, you need to try it.”