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Compromise was needed “to make sure that we had the votes to keep this out of the hands of children… That’s the number one thing.” By Adrian Ashford, South Carolina Daily Gazette Legislation limiting South Carolina sales of intoxicating hemp products to adults over 21 passed the Senate on Thursday in a compromise that took…
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“The department’s scoring criteria and the scorers’ determinations were based on the subjective valuations of the scorers. This fundamental flaw infected the entire scoring process.” By Rebecca Rivas, Missouri Independent A Missouri appeals court has delivered a sweeping rebuke of the state’s marijuana licensing process, ordering regulators to award Hippos LLC 13 facility licenses after…
Missouri Court Orders Officials To Award Marijuana Business Licenses Amid Read More »
The security guard glances at our IDs, then at us, then back at our IDs. I am 67. Diana is 64. We are not the typical pair walking into a cannabis dispensary on a weekday afternoon. We come carrying a folding table, boxes of product, and the determination of women who are not done building.…
Women Over 60 Are Finding Their Place in Cannabis Read More »
By Sasha Nutgent, VP of Cannabis Retail at Housing Works Cannabis Co Five years after New York created the Office of Cannabis Management (OCM), the state’s legal cannabis industry is still finding its footing. When New York created the OCM, it felt like the state had a chance to rewrite the cannabis playbook and address…
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When Jim Henson released The Dark Crystal in 1982, audiences didn’t quite know what to do with it. Best known as the creator of The Muppets, Henson delivered something darker and stranger: a fantasy film set on the sentient planet Thra, populated entirely by puppets, and driven by themes of power, decay, and spiritual imbalance.…
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After seven Ohio deputies sued over the music videos Afroman made from footage of a 2022 raid on his home, a jury sided with the rapper in a case that became a strange, very online fight over speech, satire, and power. Afroman just pulled off one of the strangest legal wins in recent memory. On…
Afroman Beat the Cops in Court After Turning Their Raid Read More »
“Today marks a small step forward, but we are up against incredible odds.” By Zach Wendling, Nebraska Examiner Health care practitioners who want to recommend medical cannabis to Nebraska patients are one step closer to having legal protections for writing the recommendation in the face of some state leaders’ opposition. The Legislature voted 30-7 on…
Nebraska Legislature Approves Bill To Protect Doctors Who Recommend Medical Read More »
“The bottom line is that this is only going to benefit the unregulated market…and unfortunately, that’s going to result in a lot of unnecessary arrests for voter approved behavior.” By Megan Henry, Ohio Capital Journal The changes made by Republican state lawmakers to Ohio’s voter-passed weed law have now taken effect, including new criminal charges,…
New Ohio Restrictions On Marijuana And Hemp THC Products Take Read More »
An Idaho campaign says it’s collected enough signatures for a medical cannabis legalization initiative to exceed the statewide threshold for ballot qualification. But because it’s unclear how many are valid and whether activists have met a separate requirement for regional distribution of petitions, the Natural Medicine Alliance of Idaho (NMAI) is continuing to hold signature…
Idaho Medical Marijuana Initiative Exceeds Statewide Signature Count To Make Read More »
The WNBA seems positioned to join the ranks of sports leagues that have revised their marijuana policies, with details about negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement (CBA)—which has now reportedly been agreed to in principle—indicating that the women’s basketball league is moving to eliminate cannabis testing for players. As part of the negotiations between the…
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