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Playboy Gets Fired Up For Cannabis Advocacy and Reform

Veriheal

Now the cannabis movement has a new ally—Playboy Enterprises, owners of the infamous adult magazine. A year prior to that, the magazine published an article under the heading “Pot: A Rational Approach.” The campaign will be focusing on implementing changes in public policy through advocating for legislation.

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On Decriminalizing Magic Mushrooms: The Psychedelic Constituency and Its Challenges

Freedom Leaf

In February 2018, I heard about a group that wanted to decriminalize psychoactive mushrooms in Denver, but didn’t know much about it. I joined the drug policy reform movement in 1993 specifically with the goal of legalizing psychedelics, so I was glad to hear from Matthews. In October, the board certified the language.

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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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Prohibitionists want THC-limit laws. Here’s why patients and consumers are fighting back

SpeedWeed

In a report released on Wednesday, the US Senate’s Caucus on International Narcotics Control recommended looking into THC caps on state-legal, regulated products. Cornyn and Feinstein are longtime opponents of cannabis legalization. Most cannabis flower in America’s legal regulated markets ranges between 18% and 23% THC.

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NORML Chapter Newsletter – July 2019

NORML

“The decriminalization and legalization of cannabis is one of the ways this country can undo some of the systematic and intentional racism.” Jamie Spencer, Legal Counsel, Texas NORML. ” Read more from RVA Magazine ! Follow Memphis NORML on Facebook and Twitter and become a member today !

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Project CBD: FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK IN CZECH CANNABIS CRACKDOWN

Cannabis Law Report

The criminal case that may force the closing of the Czech Republic’s pioneering cannabis magazine is — at least in the eyes of its targeted editor — disturbingly redolent of the bad old days of authoritarian rule. Robert Veverka, publisher and editor-in-chief of Legalizace magazine, heads an advocacy organization of the same name.

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Is cannabis legal in Israel?

The Cannigma

Medical: Legal Recreational: Decriminalized (legalization may be pending). Cannabis is legal for medical use in Israel and the country has implemented decriminalization policies for small-scale possession charges. A nurse holding medical cannabis in a retirement home in Rehovot, Israel (Shutterstock).