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The Rise of Anti-Legalization Efforts

Veriheal

Interestingly enough, the New York Times released an article in September of 2024, whereby a 1973 audio recording was unearthed of Nixon declaring he knew cannabis is not particularly dangerous, despite affecting millions of lives and families due to his policies ever since.

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New Orleans Decriminalizes Cannabis and Will Pardon 10,000 Cases

SpeedWeed

City leadership in New Orleans got creative to push forward cannabis reform and decriminalization, as the city police struggle to gain back trust. While the New Orleans City Council doesn’t have the authority to legalize adult-use marijuana, it has the ability to decriminalize it through an ordinance changing police policy.

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Jamaica’s Ganja Shortage: ‘Cultural Embarrassment’ or Clickbait?

The Cannigma

The actual argument made in the widely shared AP article, Jackson explained is that “the inexpensive, seedy, low quality ganja” that used to be sold for $1 (US) per gram is no longer readily available on the streets of Jamaica.”. This is something that happens every year but somehow it made the news this time,” said.

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Texas House Passes Bills to Decriminalize Adult-Use Cannabis and Expand Medical Cannabis Program

SpeedWeed

And there’s a social equity part to it where we’re not restricting this just to licensed dispensary owners.”. Less than 100 groups control almost all of the industry, as the state capped dispensary licenses from the adult-use program’s inception in 2017. Long considered the heir apparent to former State Sen.

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Doctors Get New Clinical Guidelines for Managing Chronic Pain With Cannabis, Courtesy of Canadian Researchers

Veriheal

Featured in the journal Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research , the guidelines were compiled after researchers perused scientific databases for peer-reviewed English articles on cannabis and pain. The team peered into the findings of numerous articles published between 2001 and 2019. used it in the last month.

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The Week in Weed: January 10, 2020

The Blunt Truth

First day sales topped $3 million and 77,000 transactions at more than 40 dispensaries. In Virginia, Governor Northam released a criminal justice reform agenda that includes decriminalizing marijuana. Cannabis Business Times has an article that names 11 possibilities. As for hemp, 2019 was a big year.

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Authored: 2018 Year in Review: Steady Progress Toward Legalization in NJ, NY & PA, Massachusetts Opens Recreational Dispensaries

Cannabis Law Report

Though this was widely reported as the state “decriminalizing” the possession of cannabis, in fact it was only an interim measure intended partly to reassert state jurisdiction after Jersey City attempted to take unilateral action to decriminalize cannabis. The City of Philadelphia decriminalized cannabis in 2014.