While there is likely some local economic value in opting into Measure 109, the developing psilocybin industry is presenting regulatory and capital barriers that are already pricing out small and medium sized businesses… Measure 109 explicitly forbids local government from imposing local taxes. Creating a situation where only the most well capitalized businesses can enter…
Pennsylvania residents who have previously been busted for cannabis now have a pathway to a clean record. “PA Marijuana Pardon Project,” billed as an “effort to quickly pardon thousands of Pennsylvanians from minor, non-violent marijuana-related convictions.” “This pardon project has the potential to open the door for thousands of Pennsylvanians – the college grad looking…
…psychedelic dispensaries… decriminalization effort can help kick off a shift to a three-tiered model for distribution that spans clinical, ceremonial-based and recreational uses. “If we can figure out a model where all three of those coexist in a way that allows people growing natural medicine to exist next to UC San Francisco that’s distributing synthetic…
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) has helped unionize… marijuana businesses. The agreement will cover… Scranton cultivation and processing facility, as well as at dispensaries planned for Scranton, Bethlehem and Stroudsburg… Original Article (MJ Biz Daily):Marijuana businesses in Michigan, Pennsylvania unionize & Vireo agrees to milestone medical cannabis labor pact in PennsylvaniaArtwork Fair Use: Christopher…
Polls show that, nationally, most Americans favor allowing overdose prevention sites. And 58 percent of Pennsylvanians back adult-use cannabis legalization. Biden has previously opposed fully legalizing marijuana, but his position shifted toward decriminalization by the time he became the Democratic party’s nominee for president in 2020. That year, the Democratic party adopted decriminalizing and rescheduling marijuana through…
As our society moves deeper into the psychedelic renaissance, and civilians push governments to once and for all end the war on drugs, many different options are proposed. Psychedelic decriminalization, medicalization, a legalization are all suggested pathways that each carry their own benefits. So what’s the difference? However, for many, the different but similar-sounding terminology…
Oregonians will also be able to apply for permits to grow the crop. …a flurry of local governments have taken steps to add measures on psilocybin bans to the November [2022] ballot… more than 40 cities and counties will likely have some kind of psilocybin ban before voters in the general election, with more expected…
What was something of a taboo issue half a decade ago is now the subject of bills… in more than a dozen states [and more than 10 cities]… “It does feel like cannabis activism 10 years ago,” said Jason Ortiz, executive director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy… just like cannabis, the psychedelics movement faces…
“People are paying thousands of dollars and traveling across the world to do this, so I’m sure there’s going to be a tourist boom here,” Mehr says. Josh Lehner, an economist at the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis, says it’s hard to predict just how big this new slice of the tourism industry might get,…
“We do need to be vigilant,” Oregon Representative Earl Blumenauer, one of the biggest advocates for psychedelic policy reform in Congress… “Big companies are going to try and monopolize drug therapies with psilocybin and psychedelics, just like Big Pharma has attempted to patent everything in sight, and then spend more time and money being able…
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