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Arkansas Supreme Court Ruling Could Let Lawmakers Roll Back Medical

“The thing that bothers me the most is they applied it retroactively, not prospectively. They upended 115 years of work by the people of the state of Arkansas on these initiatives.” By Antoinette Grajeda, Arkansas Advocate Emily Williams struggled to find medication that alleviated chemotherapy side effects like nausea and loss of appetite following her…

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[Video] Corporate Weed Has a Problem

A 15-minute film follows one season of sun-grown cannabis in Maine and a partnership built to survive outside the corporate model. In King’s Field, the story begins with a simple problem. King Bishop cannot grow enough cannabis to keep his shop stocked. The solution does not arrive through expansion capital or industrial infrastructure. It arrives…

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Marijuana Advocates Hope Trump’s Attorney General Will Give A Rescheduling

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is scheduled to appear before a key House committee next week—and advocates are holding out hope that lawmakers will press her to provide an update on the Justice Department’s progress in fulfilling President Donald Trump’s executive order to finalize the pending federal marijuana rescheduling process. It’s been nearly two months…

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Pennsylvania House Lawmakers Slam Senate Over Marijuana Legalization Inaction As

Pennsylvania House Democratic lawmakers are calling on the GOP-controlled Senate to come to the table and pass a bill to legalize marijuana, as proposed by the governor once again as part of his budget latest request. At a press conference on Wednesday, three Democratic members of the House who have championed adult-use legalization stressed the…

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Virginia Bill To Allow Medical Marijuana Use In Hospitals Following

Virginia lawmakers have approved a bill to allow qualifying patients to access medical marijuana in hospitals—but only after the federal government finalizes a pending proposal to reschedule cannabis. The Senate Education and Health Committee voted 14-0 on Thursday to advance the legislation from Sen. Barbara Favola (D), days after it advanced through a subcommittee. The…

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A New Government-Run Marijuana Store Just Opened In Minnesota

The first government-run marijuana retailer in Minnesota has officially opened its doors, marking another milestone in the state’s adult-use cannabis program. The city of Anoka announced last week that it had completed constructions of the facility. Now the shop is operational, with a “historic” soft launch on Thursday, Mayor Erik Skogquist said. “Our residents want…

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Fewer Cannabis-Related School Disciplinary Incidents Following Legalization

Rates of school disciplinary incidents involving cannabis fell in Massachusetts following the adoption of regulated marijuana access, according to state-specific data published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Investigators affiliated with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and John Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health assessed trends in cannabis-related disciplinary incidents in Massachusetts…

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Who Killed the U

How speculative finance and distorted incentives hollowed out American weed. On a sunny afternoon in Santa Monica in the spring of 2018, I sat on a hotel patio with the owners of two up-and-coming cannabis businesses: one a popular low-cost brand and the other a NorCal farming co-op. I had an all-cash offer from investors…

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Marijuana Consumers Overwhelmingly Back Trump’s Rescheduling Order, Poll Shows As

President Donald Trump’s executive order directing the attorney general to finalize the marijuana rescheduling process is overwhelmingly popular among cannabis consumers, according to a new poll. The survey from the cannabis telehealth platform NuggMD asked people who use marijuana to share their perspective on the order, which was signed in December but has yet to…

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FDA Faces Deadline To Publish Cannabinoid Lists And Define Hemp

In about nine months, federal hemp laws are scheduled to significantly change in a way that industry stakeholders say would effectively upend the market by re-criminalizing most consumable cannabinoid products. But in the interim, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is facing a deadline next week to help inform future hemp policy. As part of…

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