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

Cannabis Law Report

The current public policies in local and state cannabis ordinance and equity programs may enhance racial disparities if they follow the pattern of exclusion and criminalization that encompass past policies promoted as beneficial to African Americans but uphold racial capitalistic practices. Authored By: By Dr. Ayoka Nurse.

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A Founder Looks at 50: Attorney Gerry Goldstein and the Early Years of NORML

NORML

For NORML’s 50th anniversary, every Friday we will be posting a blog from NORML’s Founder Keith Stroup as he reflects back on a lifetime as America’s foremost marijuana smoker and legalization advocate. This is the sixth in a series of blogs on the history of NORML and the legalization movement.

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Nevada NORML: A Year in Review

NORML

This only reaffirmed that social justice needs to be a priority when discussing marijuana policy in this community. June 2018: Collected 79 Candidate Surveys from across Nevada. We hope that with the introduction of social lounges, tourists and residents will both have legal places to consume! July 2018: Lobby Day in DC.

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Marketing via Text May Expose Cannabis Companies to Substantial Legal Risks

Greenspoon Marder Cannabis Law Group Blog

The February 2019 volume of Marijuana Business Daily featured an article entitled Boost Your Message with Age-Specific Marketing , and the first advertisement in the magazine was for a CRM (customer relationship management) and lead database that is tailored toward the marijuana industry. The weeds of the TCPA are THICK.

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Freedom Leaf’s Diversity in Cannabis Impact List

Freedom Leaf

I continue to advocate for patient access to medical marijuana, and work with recreational legalization groups like Start SMART New York and Drug Policy Alliance that aim to take away one of the many tools law enforcement uses to lock up people of color, and to make sure we’re not pushed out of this industry. .”

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Beyond Blue Dream: A Haze strain family genealogy

SpeedWeed

Cultivation expert Dan Vinkovetsky (formerly Danny Danko of High Times and current editor of Northeast Leaf Magazine and Grow Bud Yourself! 1996: Medical cannabis legalized in California, kicking off the modern cannabis era in the US. When the Haze Brothers in Santa Cruz got a hold of it in the early 1970s, different offspring emerged.

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An Epoch of OG: The OG Kush family genealogy

SpeedWeed

Since the dawn of medical marijuana legalization in the ‘90s in Los Angeles, the potent, lemon-pine-fuel-smelling OG Kush cultivar and its offspring have floored the competition and recruited legions of lifelong followers. The regulations and taxes of legalization have crimped the supply chain of fine cannabis. Original gangsta?

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