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Lovers have Valentine’s Day. The kids have Halloween. And the stoners have 4/20.
All over the world, on 4/20, cannabis consumers unite, share their love of marijuana and light one many up. This year, with 4/20 falling on a Thursday, we get not one, but four days to celebrate the high holiday.
With a focus on legal cannabis states, here’s what’s happening this 4/20:
CALIFORNIA
COACHELLA: Coincidental synergy at its finest, California’s signature music festival once again lands smack around 4/20.

Cannabicyclol (CBL) is a little-studied phytocannabinoid that occurs naturally in the cannabis plant.

A grey-haired woman in her early 60s daintily lifts small trays topped with different varieties of marijuana to her nose, sniffing each of them carefully.

"Which one would you recommend for someone with medical issues?" she asks salesman Paul Monot, co-founder of the DrGreen shop in western Switzerland.
Posters of bright green cannabis plants advertise its wares, which, like those sold openly in a growing number of shops across Switzerland, are completely legal.
There is a catch however: They won't make you high.
"There is no psychotropic effect of our weed," says Monot, at his store in

OTTAWA — Fulfilling a campaign pledge, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced legislation on Thursday to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Canada.Many nations have either decriminalized marijuana, allowed it to be prescribed medically or effectively stopped enforcing laws against it. But when Mr.

The New Hampshire state Senate is considering several bills that would relax or expand the state's medical marijuana regulations. One bill would allow anyone authorized to use medical marijuana to grow their own cannabis plants. Other bills up for consideration would add PTSD and chronic pain to the list of qualifying conditions for MMJ. These bills all passed the House last month with strong support.

This week, state Senate committees held public hearings to hear testimony from individuals who have been helped by medical marijuana.

In a further positive development towards ending the prohibition of cannabis in the Caribbean, Prime Minister (PM) Timothy Harris of St. Kitts and Nevis has established a National Marijuana Commission. The task force will be headed by the island’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr.

Colorado legislators won’t wait and see if the Trump Administration makes good on its promise for “greater enforcement” on adult-use marijuana.
Two weeks after its introduction, a full Colorado Senate passed a bill that would allow adult-use marijuana centers to transfer inventory to medical marijuana should a federal crackdown occur. The bill now heads to a full House vote before reaching Governor Hickenlooper’s desk.
The bill effectively protects Colorado’s adult-use marijuana industry if Attorney General Jeff Sessions alters federal marijuana policy to interfere with states’ rights.