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Study: CBD Reduces Mental Impairment Caused By THC

The Fresh Toast

Study: CBD Reduces Mental Impairment Caused By THC A new study finds that the more cannabidiol (CBD) present in a cannabis strain, the less mental impairment this strain will produce on users. The post Study: CBD Reduces Mental Impairment Caused By THC appeared first on The Fresh Toast.

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Michigan: State Supreme Court Rules Police Search Of Passenger’s Personal Property Is Unconstitutional

NORML

The warrantless search of a passenger’s personal property during a traffic stop is unconstitutional, according to a ruling by the Michigan Supreme Court. The judgement overturns a 2007 decision that barred passengers from challenging similar searches by members of law enforcement. Justices unanimously opined that the driver’s voluntary consent to allow the police to search her vehicle did not extend to the passenger’s personal belongings.

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Smoke Good, Do Good With These Cannabis Products That Give Back

Leafly

Feed the needy, help veterans, heal cancer patients, and more with these vape pens, flower buds, and edibles. The post Smoke Good, Do Good With These Cannabis Products That Give Back appeared first on Leafly.

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Not All Cannabis Seeds are Created Equal… Take a Look

Otherside Farms

Feminized cannabis seeds, auto-flowering cannabis seeds, outdoor cannabis seeds, indoor cannabis seeds, OH MY! When choosing the seeds to grow your next crop, there are some things you’ll need to know. When choosing to grow your very own marijuana crop from cannabis seeds , you’ll likely have already looked into all of the growing methods available, as well as amassed loads of amazing products and tools to get your plants growing healthy and strong.

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Where the Money Grows: Learning the Industry Trends in Medical Cannabis, Recreational Marijuana, Hemp, and Beyond

Speaker: Jonathan Bench, International Cannabis and Securities Business Attorney at Harris Bricken

The U.S. cannabis industry is still in its infancy, even though states began engaging with legalization in one form or another in the late 1990s. Today, many opportunities exist for individuals and businesses that want to engage in the industry. Some want to directly own licensed businesses, while others prefer to keep the industry at an arm’s length and merely profit from it.

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New Report Says an Adult-Use Cannabis Industry Could Provide $4 Billion for New York State

Leafly

Despite adult-use cannabis' exclusion from the New York State budget this year, a new report says it could provide the state at least $4 billion. The post New Report Says an Adult-Use Cannabis Industry Could Provide $4 Billion for New York State appeared first on Leafly.

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California’s 6 Sweetest Edibles Under $5

Leafly

Sample Dollar Dose lozenges, Altai chocolate coins, Soul Sugar jellies, and Lazy 8 caramels without denting your bank account. The post California’s 6 Sweetest Edibles Under $5 appeared first on Leafly.

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Top Five Suggested Revisions to California Form Leases for Cannabis Tenants

Canna Law Blog

I cringe every time a form lease comes across my desk for a California cannabis tenant. While C.A.R. and A.I.R. lease forms certainly have their advantages (brokers and veteran landlords are comfortable with them, and they can be cheap and efficient if the transaction is simple), because of the complexity involved in leasing to cannabis industry tenants , they do not work for cannabis tenancies.

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The Roll-Up #85: Can You Patent a Spliff?

Leafly

A company patents tobacco + cannabis. Also, we recover from 4/20 and remind you to wear your safety goggles. The post The Roll-Up #85: Can You Patent a Spliff? appeared first on Leafly.

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Antigua and Barbuda Medicinal Cannabis Council now operational

Cannabis Law Report

Loop TT Reports. Prime Minister Gaston Browne announced via Facebook that the council came into force pursuant to the Cannabis Act, 2018. The Antigua and Barbuda Medicinal Cannabis Authority is responsible for regulating and controlling the licensing of the cultivation, manufacture, processing, extraction, import, export, testing, research, distribution, and sale of medicinal cannabis and cannabis for sacramental purposes.

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Two Companies Become First in Latin America to Export Medical Marijuana to Europe

The Joint Blog

Two companies – one from Uruguay and one from Colombia – will soon become the first in Latin America to legally export medical marijuana products to Europe under deals announced Wednesday. Fotmer Life Sciences of Uruguay and Clever Leaves of Colombia will export cannabis extract and dried marijuana flowers to Germany, reports the Associated Press.

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Ah Warner Founder of “Women of Weed” Says High Times has infringed on her Women of Weed trademark in a “sexualized” way.

Cannabis Law Report

MJ Biz Report. Warner’s attorney, who threatened legal action, has sent three cease-and-desist letters to California-based High Times since February 2018, including one this month. Warner noted she found this dispute particularly painful because over the years High Times has written about her activism and her company and bestowed awards on her firm and its products.

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The Seeds Of Human Being

Cannabis Maven

Powerful opinion piece by Bill Drake about CBD and stem cells, and bone health.

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Vice Article Says Cannabis Sector Showering Cash On Lobbyists In Washington DC Not Really Getting Much Bang For Their Buck

Cannabis Law Report

Here’s a taste of the piece and it is well worth reading in its entirety. Vice write. “The industry is spending millions on lobbying at the federal level, mostly on the banking issue,” said Dan Riffle, a former lobbyist with the Marijuana Policy Project who now serves as a senior policy advisor to New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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Weekly Legislative Roundup 4/26/19

NORML

At the state level, Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota signed a package of bills into law to expand the state’s medical cannabis access program. Among the changes are: allowing physicians assistants to recommend medical cannabis to their patients, adding several new qualifying conditions, and authorizing cancer patients to possess greater quantities of cannabis than typically allowed.

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Article Posted On Smithsonian Website Says Rise Of Paraphernalia Derailed Cannabis Decriminalisation In The The 1970’s & Could Do So Again

Cannabis Law Report

Historian, Emily Dufton, Writes. “A blatant rush to profit today, similar to the paraphernalia market of the 1970s, could overturn the progress made by countless legalization activists over the past 20 years. Unless the market chooses to self-regulate, another graduate student might be at the Library of Congress in 40 years, wondering at how quickly and easily America’s brief experiment with legalization was overturned.” Here’s an extract from her piece and it’s well wort

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Facebook Post Leads Myanmar Police To Americans Growing 350,000 Cannabis Plants Near Mandalay

Cannabis Law Report

Channel News Asia Reports …YANGON: Myanmar police have arrested one American and two locals after photos on Facebook led them to a huge plantation of towering marijuana plants near Mandalay. Pictures of the fields of weed started circulating on the platform last week – a rare sight online in a country where police photos of seized heroin and methamphetamine are far more common.