Adults can now [Jan. 1, 2022] purchase up to two ounces of cannabis flower from licensed retailers… …under amended rules issued by the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission. Original Article (Norml):Oregon: new rules increase the amount of cannabis adults can purchase per transactionArtwork Fair Use: Mostafameraji
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)… authorized two cannabis companies to harvest marijuana for research purposes… ending a five-decade federal monopoly. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) director Nora Volkow told the outlet that it would be “valuable” for researchers to use marijuana from dispensaries to examine what kind of weed is being consumed to better…
SECTION 2. A nurse licensed under ORS 678.040 to 678.101 may discuss the medical use of marijuana with a person with whom the nurse has a patient-provider relationship. (1) “Attending [physician] provider” means [a physician licensed under ORS chapter 677] one of the following health care providers who has primary responsibility for the care and…
D.C. voters legalized the possession, home cultivation and gifting of adult-use cannabis in 2014, a congressional rider has blocked the District from using its tax dollars to implement a regulated system of sales. They heard numerous recommendations on the legalization proposal, ranging from enhancing social equity provisions to ensuring that medical cannabis patients continue to…
Researchers at Imperial College London [report]… Use of cannabis together with psychedelics was “associated with higher scores of mystical-type experience, ego-dissolution and visual alterations,” the study, published last week in the journal Psychopharmacology, states. And in general, the more marijuana a person said they used, the more intense the psychedelic effect… there was a unique…
A cannabis researcher who is waging a legal battle to reschedule marijuana in the federal circuit courts said that Bank of America decided to activate her institute’s bank account without explanation or recourse. Dr. Suzanne Sisley, the president and principal investigator at Scottsdale Research Institute [SRI], which is federally licensed to handle and grow cannabis,…
Quiet spoken lady on disability who volunteered at animal rescue charity & self medicated with cannabis for pain sent to prison for 60 days over 2.5 grams of cannabis… “Here, in this court, she has run out of road,” [the judge] said. Again another example of a judge completely out of touch as to what…
Before the voting of Bill 399, the Government, opposed to the legislation and to the regulation of cannabis cultivation in Brazil, tried to strategically hinder its advance. The Ministry of Health suggested and considered the incorporation of CBD oil into the Universal Health System (SUS, in Portuguese). The only concentration allowed, though, would be 200mg/ml.…
…the pharmaceutical industry spent $3.48 billion dollars on lobbying in 2020… here were 1,502 pharmaceutical lobbyists in 2020, 63.58% of whom were former government employees. So of course, when you have billions of dollars invested… you can ask your good ol pals at the FDA to approve all kinds of drugs. However, while the cannabis industry…
A megadrought across the West has created urgency, though, as illegal growers steal water, depriving legal users including farmers and homeowners of the increasingly precious resource. “Jackson County strongly requests your assistance to address this emergency,” the commissioners said in a letter to Gov. Kate Brown, Senate President Peter Courtney and House Speaker Tina Kotek. Josephine…
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