Mon.Nov 07, 2022

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Cannabis Legalization in the Midterms (November 2022)

Cannabis Life Network

What’s cannabis legalization in the US Midterms look like this year? We’ve got five states with legalization measures on the ballot. If all five go through, cannabis will be legal in nearly half of the United States. The five states that could legalize cannabis on November 8th are Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota.

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Rick Steves: We Need to Win for Cannabis and Civil Liberties

NORML

Nineteen other states have smartly legalized the responsible use of marijuana for adults. Now it’s time to bring cannabis freedom to Missouri, Maryland, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Arkansas. The post Rick Steves: We Need to Win for Cannabis and Civil Liberties appeared first on NORML.

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Case Study: How a Cultivator Eliminated a Rampant HLVd Infection and Doubled Yield 

Medicinal Genomics

An indoor cannabis cultivation facility located in the southern US partnered with PhenoXpress , an independent testing service that uses PathoSEEK qPCR Detection Assays, to screen plants suspected to be infected with Hop Latent Viroid (HLVd) and: Confirm that HLVd was causing the poor cloning success rate and symptoms observed in both vegetation and flowering.

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Native tribes are surging ahead of New York’s legal cannabis market

Leafly

Indigenous-owned dispensaries are booming throughout the state. Here’s how tribes statewide are claiming stake in New York’s next big industry. The post Native tribes are surging ahead of New York’s legal cannabis market appeared first on Leafly.

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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 York’s Cannabis Retail Dispensary Regulations, Part 1: Dispensary Operations

Canna Law Blog

As we previously summarized , on Friday, October 28, 2022, the Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) released its “ Guidance for Adult-Use Dispensaries ” (the Regulations). The Regulations provide guidance for Conditional Adult-Use Retails Dispensary (CAURD) licensees and applicants. While we believed that the Regulations could be explained in only five (5) parts, after we reviewed the Regulations, we felt it necessary to break it down even further and into more parts (sorry).

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Uni of Southern Qld Leads Bid For a ten-year Cooperative Research Centre, which would “explore the immense production possibilities of hemp”.

Cannabis Law Report

University of Southern Queensland is leading a bid for a ten-year Cooperative Research Centre, which would “explore the immense production possibilities of hemp”. According to a statement from USQ on Monday, core research areas would include production, health and materials streams. Supporters of a thriving industrial hemp industry in Australia point to attributes such as the plant’s […].

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Biden Claims to Be Working on Cannabis Campaign, but Progress Has Yet to Be Made

Veriheal

The pressure is mounting for Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats to release cannabis prisoners before the midterm elections. During a recent conversation with young voters, he said he kept his promise. Will he stay true to his word, or is it a ploy to keep voters on his side? In February 2021, the U.S. president announced that his administration was putting cannabis legalization at the forefront of its plans.

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Costa Rica Authorizes First Hemp Plantation

Cannabis Law Report

The Minister of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG), Víctor Julio Carvajal Porras, signed the resolution authorizing the first project for the use of hemp this Friday. Ingenio Taboga S.A. made the request. It is located in Bebedero de Cañas, Guanacaste, developing a hemp cultivation and processing project in a 150-hectare area. “For the Ministry of Agriculture […].

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Guyana Rastafari Council deplores retaining cannabis as a criminal offence; Attorney General says it’s a “delicate balance”

Cannabis Law Report

The Guyana Rastafari Council on Saturday assailed government’s rejection of a proposal to decriminalise the possession of marijuana rather than merely removing imprisonment as a penalty but Attorney General Anil Nandlall has already said that changes to the narcotics law are aimed at finding a “delicate balance” between competing interests. Mr Nandlall said, at the […].

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Groundbreaking for $209M cannabis project

Cannabis Law Report

Construction on a $209 million cannabis cultivation and manufacturing facility got underway with a groundbreaking ceremony held at former knife and TV antenna factory on a 90.7-acre parcel located in Ellenville and the town of Wawarsing. The project is by Cresco Labs, which currently operates 21 cannabis growing and processing facilities in 10 states.