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Marijuana Breeders Can Use AI To Design New Strains, Study

Marijuana breeders may be able to design new strains and speed up their growing cycles by utilizing artificial intelligence (AI), a new study suggests. Researchers found that by feeding genetic markers, growth measurements, environmental data and chemical assays into AI models, breeders could simulate thousands of potential crosses and stimulate “speed breeding” through machine learning…

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Now Is the Time to Double Down on Cannabis Activism

Political and societal changes rarely occur organically. They only happen when advocates agitate for them. For over five decades, NORML and its grassroots supporters have advocated for ending the criminalization, discrimination, and stigmatization of cannabis consumers. We have been deliberate and diligent in our efforts to change the way people talk and think about the…

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RFK Hid Psychedelic Trips From His Wife, Journalist Who Allegedly

As he campaigned for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.–the current head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Trump administration—still used psychedelics like DMT “for fun” and hid his drug use from his wife, according to a book from a journalist who allegedly had a romantic…

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Virginia Rejected A Monopoly Model For Marijuana, But Lawmakers Need

“Legislators must ensure the launch mechanics don’t inadvertently hand the keys back to the incumbents before independent operators can even get in the door.” By Max Jackson, Cannabis Wise Guys For years, the story of legal cannabis in America has been a rerun of the same bad movie: corporate lobbyists write the rules, “Big Weed”…

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Ongoing Marijuana Conflict Between States And Feds Could Provide ‘Guidance’

There’s significant uncertainty around how a pending federal hemp ban will ultimately be enforced, but “divergent federal and state marijuana laws may provide some guidance,” according to congressional researchers. With the recriminalization of most consumable hemp products set to take effect next November after President Donald Trump signed a spending bill containing the cannabis prohibition,…

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Ohio bill to roll back cannabis legalization passes (Newsletter: December

PA lawmakers on legalization chances; ME recriminalization initiative; TX hemp rules; OR marijuana labor lawsuit; VA consumer workplace protections Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… Before you dig…

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We Now Know President Biden’s Marijuana Pardons Were Just for

Biden’s Marijuana Pardons Were Just for Show Remember when President Biden made a big show of pardoning thousands of people with federal marijuana convictions? Remember the press conferences, the speeches about how “nobody should be in jail for simple possession,” and the promises of reform? Yeah, about that. Turns out it was all theater. And…

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Maine Officials Approve 2026 Ballot Initiative To Largely Repeal Marijuana

Maine officials have cleared prohibitionist activists to begin collecting signatures for a proposed ballot initiative that would roll back the state’s voter-approved marijuana legalization law. The measure, if approved, would also revise the regulatory structure of the medical cannabis program by imposing product testing requirements. The proposal—titled “An Act to Amend the Cannabis Legalization Act…

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Minnesota Legalized Marijuana, But Thousands Of People Are Still Being

“We’re just switching how we’re criminalizing the same exact plant. And it’s going to hit the same communities that the criminalization of marijuana did.” By Max Nesterak, Minnesota Reformer When Minnesota lawmakers legalized recreational marijuana in 2023, Democrats hailed it as the state’s most sweeping shift in drug policy in half a century and long-overdue…

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EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Basketball Star Avoids Death Penalty In Indonesia After

For seven months, American athlete Jarred Shaw sat inside Indonesia’s prison system, wondering whether a package of THC gummies sent from Thailand would cost him his life. On Tuesday, an Indonesian court sentenced the 35-year-old to 26 months. The decision marks a sharp departure from the death penalty framework that police and prosecutors had floated…

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