In late 2021, Oregon State University received a $10 million grant from USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Sustainable Agricultural Systems for a five-year study to define economic opportunities for hemp in the western United States… Hemp is a… crop for carbon sequestration, absorbing about 11,000 pounds, or 5 metric tons of CO2 through photosynthesis during…
A new study blows any assumption that the U.S. cannabis industry as an easy business to make a profit – with 37% reporting they’re operating without one… but when businesses leave, local economies suffer… Mayberry has seen conditions are very difficult on small growers operating on shoestring budgets… the technologist believes legislation needs to change…
The D.C. Council on Tuesday [4/5/2022] voted down an emergency measure to ramp up enforcement against the District’s many unregulated cannabis businesses – storefronts and delivery services that “gift” weed with the purchase of other goods, like t-shirts and potted plants. The bill, introduced…. by Council Chairman… would have granted D.C.’s Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board…
Critics of legal marijuana cite the potential for confusion among law enforcement agencies keeping up with evolving regulations, concern about minors gaining access to the drug, a potential drop in property values, and more for maintaining marijuana’s status as an illicit drug…. all in all, the… administration seems to be pretty anti-weed.… it seems increasingly likely that a bipartisan effort to…
Two counties in southern Oregon have declared states of emergency related to cannabis… Law enforcement agencies found a slew of problems… including workers living in squalid conditions… Original Article (OPB):Hemp license moratoriums coming to 2 Oregon countiesArtwork Fair Use: Gary Halvorson
Oregon is the first state to allow the use of magic mushrooms, which have been used recreationally since the 60s in the United States. The legalization of psilocybin in Oregon is equivalent to cannabis, which was legalized for medical use in 1998 and for recreational use in [2014]. Magic mushrooms grow in the Northwest and…
The 2022 Oregon legislative session will end without new cannabis taxes… legislation allowing city and county governments to increase local cannabis sales taxes from 3% to 10% died. During SB 1524’s hearing in the house committee on revenue, both Democrats and Republican indicated support for increasing the local sales tax city and county governments can…
For years, large tech companies, including Facebook and Google, have refused to acknowledge the legality of industrial hemp, let alone the legality of medical or recreational marijuana. Finally, Apple bucked that trend. Unlike the big headlines we’ve seen recently from Amazon, Uber, the NFL, and other mainstream, institutional businesses, showing a positively changing attitude toward…
The Senate Committee on Judiciary and Ballot Measure 110 Implementation last week voted to approve a bill that would divert at least $26 million over the next two years from substance abuse treatment, but now a Senate spokesman says lawmakers have changed their minds. Measure 110, which voters passed by a 17-point margin in 2020,…
Does cannabis actually make people lazy in the long run? A new study published in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology – a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Psychological Association – disputes the cannabis-induced amotivational syndrome theory, instead finding no evidence to support it. Original Article (High Times):Study shreds cannabis ‘amotivational syndrome’ theoryArtwork Fair Use:…
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