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What You Need To Know About The Healing Benefits Of Marijuana’s CBG

The Fresh Toast

What You Need To Know About The Healing Benefits Of Marijuana’s CBG Cannabis is an extremely complex plant, and it contains many more cannabinoids than just THC and CBD. Let's Talk about CBG. The post What You Need To Know About The Healing Benefits Of Marijuana’s CBG appeared first on The Fresh Toast.

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Rhode Island: Now allowing out of state medical marijuana cards

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In July of 2018, Rhode Island expanded compassion center access to medical marijuana patients across state lines. At that time, the state’s MMJ regulatory body outlined regulations for sales to nonresidents: * Dispensaries must use “reasonably good-faith efforts” to verify nonresident medical marijuana ID cards by asking for a second form of government-issued photo ID. * Nonresident patients must be entered in a state database that tracks sales. * Nonresident patients are limited to how much can

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Battle Royale? Phase 3 Cannabis Licensing in City of Los Angeles

Canna Law Blog

The City of Los Angeles has long endured questions surrounding its elusive Phase 3 licensing process for cannabis businesses. The City completed Phase 1 and 2 licensing without too much crazy change, but Phase 3 is very likely going to be a different story, and will affect a lot of stakeholders for better or worse. On February 8, 2019, the Department of Cannabis Regulation (“ DCR “) wrote to the Rules, Elections, and Intergovernmental Relations Committee (“Committee”), p

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Want To Know How Marijuana Can Reverse Aging?

The Fresh Toast

Want To Know How Marijuana Can Reverse Aging? “Free radicals” is a buzzword in our contemporary discourse about health and aging. Could marijuana help combat the effects of these radicals? The post Want To Know How Marijuana Can Reverse Aging? appeared first on The Fresh Toast.

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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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Green Gold: Cannabis prices in the USA

Cannabis Life Network

Could green be the new color of gold? More precisely, could the leafy green plant called cannabis become more valuable than gold? You can build computers with gold. You can make jewelry with gold. One thing gold doesn’t do very well is providing any form of relief from medical conditions. Cannabis, on the other hand, […]. The post Green Gold: Cannabis prices in the USA appeared first on Cannabis Life Network.

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Congress looks into allowing banking for marijuana businesses

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U.S. lawmakers are once again exploring efforts to allow legal cannabis businesses access to banks. The Democratic-controlled House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday held a hearing to discuss the Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act of 2019, also known as the SAFE Banking Act, reports Yahoo Finance. “We’re trying to examine how outdated banking regulations on the federal level are hindering reform on the state level when it comes to marijuana,” said Democratic Congre

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation get hold of figures for prescriptions for medicinal cannabis

Cannabis Law Report

The report reveals 3000 scripts have written since March 2018. Only 54 scripts written in March 2018 rising to 670 Scripts written in January 2019. Here’s the report. How many people are using medicinal cannabis in Australia? Download How many people are using medicinal cannabis in Australia? (2.07 MB). Download 2.07 MB. The Federal Government relaxed the restrictions on the use of medicinal cannabis in Australia last year.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would be fine with a sitting president who uses marijuana

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wouldn’t mind if an acting president also happened to smoke pot. Ocasio-Cortez told TMZ on Thursday that a president of the United States who recreationally smokes marijuana would be fine, arguing that “there’s really no difference” between THC and alcohol. “That’s fine with me.

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New Jersey: Murmurings Of Consent Between Gov. Phil Murphy and Senate President Steve Sweeney

Cannabis Law Report

Patch.com write… NJ Advance Media, The Asbury Park Press and the New Jersey Globe said the governor and legislative leaders resolved their differences on the major sticking point in negotiations: how to tax marijuana once it’s legalized. Under the agreement, the state would impose a flat tax rate of $42 per ounce of marijuana instead of levying a sales tax on pot, according to an NJ Advance Media report.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Questions Cannabis Entrepreneur Corey Barnette if Marijuana Legalization is “compounding the racial wealth gap.”

Cannabis Law Report

Esquire report. AOC has herself been a vocal advocate for marijuana legalization, and made headlines earlier this week when she said she’d have no objections to a sitting president using marijuana. “We need to accept that there is nothing more inherently damaging about marijuana than say legal substances, like alcohol or anything else,” she told TMZ. “So, I’m glad that we’re moving towards a more just position as a party and that we’re moving to legalize marijuana but not just

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Open Letter: Industry Stakeholders Concerned by Proposed US Hemp AuthorityTM Certification Program

Cannabis Law Report

Here’s the full letter dated 17 February 2018. Hemp Authority- open letter.2-17-19.

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2018 U.S. Hemp Crop Report Published

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Germany Reports Healthy Interest In Home-Grown Tenders (Delays Aside)

Cannabis Law Report

Interest in Germany as a major European cannabis hub is not waning (apparently) despite its botched licensing process, as 79 firms have bid to become growers, the government said. The German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) is leafing through the applications and will eventually hand out cultivation licences to a minimum of three and a maximum of 13 firms (hopefully).

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Tuesday 19 February – State By State Digest: Louisiana, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, Vermont

Cannabis Law Report

LOUISIANA. Regulatory Friction May Delay Louisiana Cannabis Crop Again. The LSU AgCenter and its grower continue to face regulatory hurdles from the Louisiana Department of Agriculture. [link]. MICHIGAN. Michigan Proposes Cutting Fees for Medical Marijuana Patients and Growers. The new rules proposed by the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs won’t go into effect until later this year.