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Missouri Man Released From Prison After Serving 11 Years for Possessing One Pound of Weed

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After spending a decade behind bars, Franklin got in contact with Christina Frommer of the Canna Convict Project , a local advocacy group working to find justice for non-violent cannabis inmates serving excessive prison terms. He was just a black male in a rural community and he got the book thrown at him and that wasn’t fair.

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DOJ Report: The Cannabis Effect on Crime: Time-Series Analysis of Crime in Colorado and Washington State

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Or, paradoxically, the article by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker, claiming (based on a book by Berenson, [ 2019 Berenson, A. ( 2019 ). Advocacy groups, both for and against marijuana legalization might also contribute to this problem. What actually happened to violent crime after Washington legalized marijuana.

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

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London, UK: Pavilion Book. Her career began as a journalist, first as an entertainment reporter for Pacific News Service with several published articles in local and national newspapers, including the San Francisco Examiner. The theory, practice, and evaluation of the phenomenological method as a. qualitative research procedure.

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

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Using a content analysis approach, we investigated articles about medicinal cannabis from 2000 to the end of 2019 in the Medical Journal of Australia, Australian Doctor , Medical Observer , Australian Journal of General Practice , Australian Family Physicia n , and Australian Medicine. Conclusions. Background.

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Higher Profile: Amanda Reiman, Founder, Personal Plants

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The site hosts articles and videos of experts teaching every aspect of growing a beneficial garden; with how-to guides on harvesting, processing and recipes for making remedies from the garden. Gardening, Understanding & Advocacy . This led to the common assumption, you can’t judge a book by its cover. “If she pondered.

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Alterman Opinion Suggests Cannabis Businesses Apply Double Diligence In Records Keeping

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as well as writing detailed pieces about tax and accountancy issues relating to law in the cannabis sector Jordan has a incisive knowledge about how the cannabis sector operates and writes wickedly funny articles on his blog. Read his full biography below the article. We welcome Jordan to Cannabis Law Report. Commissioner , T.C.

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10 excellent Asian American cannabis products to try today

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She started her cannabis journey nearly 20 years ago as a medical marijuana patient in Los Angeles, and swiftly transitioned into advocacy and activism, helping the first dispensaries land ads in LA Weekly. Founder Stephanie Hua founded the SF brand in 2015 and also wrote a book titled Edibles. View Amelia Williams’s articles.

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