Modern Culture

Colorado bill would allow dispensary tasting rooms

Customers could vaporize flower and concentrates, but no smoking would be allowed in the consumption areas in order to remain compliant with the Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act. If passed, the bill would create the first statewide licensing program for cannabis consumption. The City of Denver is currently the only municipality in Colorado that licenses…

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Biography/Memoir

How Monsanto & Bayer are trying to take over the cannabis [and kratom?] industry

*Friedrich Bayer ( 6. June 1825 in Barmen-Wichlinghausen; † 6. May 1880 in Würzburg) Unfortunately, this buyout only strengthened… [Bayer’s] lobbying power. Bayer, the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, made a deal to buy out Monsanto for $66 billion, even though Monsanto was voted “the most evil company in the world” back in 2013.…

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Politics

[Politicians] call for a hearing on Jeff Sessions anti-marijuana policy

Jeff Sessions failed “to provide any evidence that prosecuting marijuana in states where it has been legalized will make Americans safer.” “The costs of pursuing this misguided policy both in terms of prosecution and in lives blighted by unnecessary criminal convictions are staggering, cruel and unwarranted,” said Rep. Steve Cohen, a Democrat from Tennessee who…

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Anthropology

US Corporation cashes in as Lesotho becomes the first African country to legalise cannabis cultivation

​As reported on Feb. 6th, 2018… Lesotho has become the first African country to permit the legal cultivation of cannabis – but the production of the drug has been restricted to two foreign-owned companies, while rural farmers and the wider population continue to be prohibited from harvesting their own.  Cannabis – known as matekoane in Sotho, the main…

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Politics

Letter: Oregon has too much marijuana, no place to smoke it

Because of the Oregon indoor clean air act, you can’t smoke marijuana (even with ah vape pen) in public… …but [current policy like this may inadvertently be] sending marijuana consumers out onto I-84 to commit crimes by consuming marijuana in their vehicle or transporting it across the border. Original Article (East Oregonian):Letter: Oregon has too…

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Medicine/Healing

Want teens to smoke less pot? Legalize it.

The reality is that, to date, not one jurisdiction, either in the U.S. or elsewhere, has seen a marked increase in teen drug use following the relaxation of marijuana restrictions. Not one. Both Colorado and Washington, the pioneer states of marijuana legalization, have actually seen drops in teen marijuana use following legalization. The drop in…

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Politics

San Francisco will clear thousands of marijuana convictions

Thousands of people with misdemeanor convictions for marijuana possession dating back 40 years will have their criminal records cleared, the San Francisco district attorney’s office said Wednesday. San Diego is also forgiving old convictions.​Recreational marijuana became legal in California this year, and the law allowed those with prior low-level offenses to petition for expungement, a…

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