While it is legal to buy cannabis in Oregon… it’s still illegal to smoke it in many places, like apartment rentals, hotels, cafes or even on the street. Senate Bill 639 would allow everything from home deliveries to cannabis tents at concerts and tastings at cannabis farms … It would generate substantial tax revenue too…
“No one cannabinoid is a perfect solution. So don’t put so much emphasis on THC. All the plant’s cannabinoids and ingredients contribute to achieving desired effects.” -Shane Yoakam [Ray Bowser adds], “My dad was a grower, I am, and my kids now form a third generation of growers,” he says proudly … Adam Jacques has…
Following multiple days of lengthy debate and consideration of several amendments, the House Financial Services Committee voted 45 to 15 to advance the legislation to the full body. Under the approved bill, federal banking regulators would not be able to punish financial institutions just because they work with marijuana businesses that are legal under state…
The bill would exempt state-legal marijuana activity from the federal Controlled Substances Act. We’re in a new day,” he said. “We need to make sure that our federal laws don’t obstruct what states are doing, especially with regard to the banking issues, where everything now is being done in cash and this is not the…
Interestingly, as this was about to go to print, I received an email from “Robin,” which said, “I may have some info about the DEA & IRS, who had a secret meeting in Chicago in regards to the info you had in your book… If you want to know more, you can call me…”… Moroccan…
Denver City Council decided in a 10-1 vote that the city should permanently allow “social” cannabis use at certain businesses in the city. The change is meant to give some stability to businesses where people can vaporize or eat marijuana legally. City officials also are examining the city’s distance requirements. Social-use businesses must be at…
“This is about evolving,” the 43-year-old said, gingerly pinching stalks of hemp that dangled like light fixtures.“Tobacco here is very much the past,” Furnish said. “Hemp is the future.” The hemp provision, which had bipartisan support, labels hemp a commodity crop — like soybeans and corn — and offers farmers insurance if they choose to…
Advocates say people of color are often reluctant to join the growing legal marijuana economy because they were targeted far more often than whites during the war on drugs. As Massachusetts developed laws for legal marijuana, officials wrote what they claimed was a first-in-the-nation Social Equity Program explicitly to give members of those communities a…
A number of studies, including two published just last month, have also found that cannabis can impact a person’s use of benzodiazepines. One found that 45 percent of participants ceased their benzo use by the end of the study period; the other saw 22 percent of participants substituting weed for benzos. As more and more prohibitionist cannabis policies are reversed…
When we try to medicalize therapeutic drug experiences, a doctor’s note can become the difference between a “good” drug user and a “bad” drug user. But, in our broken medical system, medicalizing drug policy is a moral compromise. It redirects the movement, tilting compassion and liberty toward pathology, perpetuating the racist and stigmatizing overtones embedded…
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