Snoop Dogg and Patrick Stewart are now business partners in the European cannabis industry. Snoop Dogg’s venture capital firm Casa Verde has made a $10 million investment in the UK medical cannabis research firm Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies (OCT), reports Green …
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Going to California: Emerging Trends Between the Golden State’s Major Metros
Spent my days with a woman unkind Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine. Made up my mind to make a new start Going To California with an aching in my heart -Going to California, Led Zeppelin A full …
Read More »Los Angeles to License Marijuana Businesses Aug. 1, But Sales May Have to Wait Longer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles will kick off the process for licensing cannabis cultivators and manufacturers on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018, but it’s likely to be many months before any of those companies open their doors for business. The …
Read More »Iowa’s Second Cannabis Oil Maker Will Be in Cedar Rapids
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s second medical cannabis oil manufacturer will be in Cedar Rapids. The Iowa Department of Public Health said Monday, July 2, 2018, that Iowa Relief LLC, a subsidiary of New York-based cannabis company Acreage Holdings, …
Read More »Coast Guard: Marijuana is Legal in Vermont, but Not on Lake Champlain
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is reminding boaters that despite Vermont’s new law legalizing recreational cannabis, the use of marijuana remains illegal on Lake Champlain. The possession and use of small amounts of marijuana became legal …
Read More »Utah Medical Marijuana Opponents Drop Lawsuit, Clearing Way for Vote
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Opponents of Utah’s medical marijuana ballot initiative are dropping their lawsuit seeking to prevent the legalization question from being put to voters in November 2018. The action by Drug Safe Utah on Monday, July 2, …
Read More »Smoking marijuana may be tied to cough, sputum production
(HealthDay)—Smoking marijuana seems to be associated with increased risk of cough, sputum production, and wheezing, according to a review published online July 3 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Mehrnaz Ghasemiesfe, M.D., from the University of California in San Francisco, …
Read More »Cannabis Treats Addiction and Mental Health Issues
With cannabis now popular, and legal, either recreationally or medically, even both, across most of the United States, researchers are finally finding it easier to study the plant, despite it still being an illegal Schedule 1 substance under the federal …
Read More »Emails Show that Officials under Trump Have Been Pushing for Cannabis Research
The message, sent on June 15, 2017, was part of a collection of emails released to journalist Jasper Craven, a freelancer for The Nation, Vice and other publications. Craven apparently obtained the emails under a Freedom of Information Act request …
Read More »U.S. Senate passes farm bill that legalizes industrial hemp
A new bill that would allow farmers to grow hemp for commercial purposes now has approval of the Senate. The Senate passed the Farm Bill on Thursday with an 86-11 vote, the AP reports. The legislation focusing on agriculture and …
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