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Black Cannabis Week Supports and Elevates Black Entrepreneurs |

SpeedWeed

The goal of the event is to provide a variety of educational seminars and services for people of color, and push for improved social equity in the industry. . “We Black Cannabis Week (BCW21) is a collective web of educational and informational experiences to empower Black communities to move toward social and political change.

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2019: A High-storic Year for Nevada NORML Chapters

NORML

To collect signatures for our trip to Washington DC for NORML’s national conference and lobby day, we hosted pop-up stops at the many dispensaries across Las Vegas and a few in Reno. Initiated a patient voucher program for eligible patients. Hosted pop-ups across Las Vegas and Reno. Black History Month Celebration.

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City Lights Bookshop & Synergetic Press Present Free 2 Day Event celebrating the pioneering legacy of Sasha and Ann Shulgin for the launch of the first Shulgin book since 2011, The Nature of Drugs: History, Pharmacology, and Social Impact. 

Cannabis Law Report

Earth and Fire Erowid – cofounders of the non-profit Erowid Center, largest and most visited collection of information about psychoactive substances on the web. Leonard Pickard – chemist, author, former research associate in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, and Deputy Director of the Drug Policy Analysis Program at UCLA.

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Nevada NORML: A Year in Review

NORML

April 2018: “Setting the Record Straight” Program. We created a dope set of resources to give to people interested in sealing their record and held an educational seminar educating them on the steps. June 2018: Collected 79 Candidate Surveys from across Nevada. December 2018: “Access for All” Patient Voucher Program.

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Update on Marijuana in the Workplace “Rhode Island”

Cannabis Law Report

For employers who attended the recent AP&S seminar on “Marijuana in the Workplace,” as well as all employers looking to stay informed of new developments in this area of the law, the Rhode Island General Assembly has now codified protections for employees and job applicants who are medical marijuana cardholders.

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California Regulated Cannabis: Reboot in 2020!!

Cannabis Law Report

Local governmental agencies have the final say on land-use, health and safety issues, and the ability to collect tax revenues from the industry, but all local authority was subject to a framework of a comprehensive, burdensome and poorly reasoned state-wide regulation of this industry. The contention tax rates are too high is a red herring.

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

NORML

When Goldstein contacted Beto to indicate we had a couple of national journalists willing to come interview marijuana prisoners, the warden agreed to assemble a collection of a dozen or so non-violent marijuana offenders and to provide us the space to interview them within the prison.

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