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Virginia Lawmakers Approve Bill To Provide Marijuana Sentencing Relief To

כתיבת תגובה / cannabis, marijuana, thc, טכנולוגיות גידול ומיצוי, טרנדים וביקורות מוצרים, עבודה והזדמנויות, קנאביס רפואי ומחקר, רגולציה ולגלזציה, תעשייה ועסקים, תרבות וחברה /

Virginia lawmakers have approved a bill to provide relief for people convicted of past cannabis crimes, mandating that individuals with certain offenses automatically receive resentencing hearings and have their punishments adjusted. The legislation is similar to proposals passed by lawmakers in recent sessions that were vetoed by former Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R). The current proposal, sponsored by…

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Bipartisan Congressional Lawmakers File Bill Directing VA To Study Psychedelics

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Bipartisan congressional lawmakers have introduced a bill to promote research into the therapeutic potential of certain psychedelics in the treatment of serious mental health conditions experienced by military veterans. Reps. Jack Bergman (R-MI) and Lou Correa (D-CA), co-chairs of the Congressional Psychedelics Advancing Therapies (PATH) Caucus, filed the “Expanding Veterans’ Access to Emerging Treatments Act”…

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Florida Lawmakers Approve Bill To Slash Medical Marijuana Card Fee

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Florida lawmakers have unanimously approved a bill to significantly reduce the fee for military veterans to obtain medical marijuana registry identification cards, slashing the cost to one-fifth of the current amount. The House Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee on Thursday voted 18-0 to pass the legislation from Reps. Susan Valdés (R) and Michelle Salzman (R).…

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The Promise Of ‘Craft Cannabis’ Has Not Been Realized—Due To

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“The central question is no longer whether cannabis will become a major American industry, but what kind of industry it will become.” By Damian Fagon, Parabola Center for Law & Policy For more than a decade, U.S. cannabis legalization has been framed as an opportunity for small producers, local brands and craft cultivation. In most…

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Cannabis Was Built by Breeders

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For decades, cannabis breeders grew the plant that everyone profits from. They selected, stabilized and preserved genetics under prohibition, often at real personal risk. Then legalization arrived, and much of that work was absorbed into the commercial market with little credit, less consent and almost no compensation. Strains were renamed. Lineage was blurred. Provenance became…

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Avocados vs Bombs: How Legal Cannabis Markets Beat the Cartels

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Remember when they told you that smoking a joint killed a cop in Colombia? That was the propaganda line two decades ago—your personal cannabis consumption was directly funding cartel violence. If you bought weed, you were complicit in murder, corruption, and destabilization. It was bullshit then, and it’s bullshit now. But let’s accept their logic…

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Woodstock to Screen Documentary Exploring Cannabis and Creativity

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On February 12, HERbal Woodstock will host a free public screening of Cannabis + Creativity at the historic Bearsville Theater, bringing together cannabis culture, artistic expression and local community under one roof. Directed and produced by Elana Frankel, the award-winning documentary explores how cannabis intersects with creative practice across disciplines. The film follows six artists,…

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Delaware Senate Votes To Override Governor’s Veto Of Marijuana Bill

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The Delaware Senate has voted to override the governor’s veto of a bill that would prevent local governments from imposing onerous zoning restrictions that make it more challenging for marijuana businesses to operate in their jurisdictions. This comes months after Gov. Matt Meyer (D) vetoed the legislation from Sen. Trey Paradee (D), who pitched it…

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Texas Cannabis Policy Is at an Inflection Point

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For much of the last decade, Texas has occupied a contradictory place in the U.S. cannabis landscape. It maintains one of the nation’s most restrictive medical cannabis programs and enforces strict marijuana prohibition, yet quietly became a national powerhouse in hemp production after the 2018 Farm Bill. The result is a fragmented system defined by legal gray areas, regulatory…

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Cannabis Isn’t the Most Harmful Substance

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For decades, cannabis has been treated as a public menace while alcohol and tobacco were folded into daily life, policy frameworks and corporate profit models. A newly published scientific analysis out of Canada once again flips that logic on its head. A peer-reviewed study published January 27 in the Journal of Psychopharmacology finds that alcohol…

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