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Police Dismiss Charges Against Tennessee Stores Raided for Selling CBD Products – News
Cops seized the businesses’ cash registers, along with their stock of medical cannabis products, and shut them down for several days. Prosecutors took the seized products to a state testing lab to determine whether or not they were legal under …
Read More »Chairman of House VA Committee Supports Medical Marijuana Research
On Tuesday, the chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs embraced a simple idea that could help America’s vets – the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) should conduct substantial research into medicinal cannabis. Committee chair Tennessee Congressman Phil Roe …
Read More »Tennessee Police Raid Stores for Selling State-Legal CBD Edibles – News
Legislators in Tennessee and Nebraska Advance Proposals to Legalize Medical Marijuana This Year – News
Photo via LPETTET Scientific evidence confirming the medicinal properties of cannabis is getting harder and harder to ignore, and even conservative, Republican-dominated states are beginning to show support for medical marijuana. This week, Republican legislators in Tennessee proposed a bill …
Read More »Jeff Sessions Says Obama-Era Cannabis Policy Is Still in Effect – News
After almost a year of threatening to crack down on state-legal cannabis, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions finally told Congress that the Obama administration’s cannabis policy is still in effect. Sessions was brought before the House Judiciary Committee this Tuesday …
Read More »The DEA Seized 5.3 Million Marijuana Plants in 2016 – News
New DEA data from 2016 has given us a clear look at cannabis enforcement in America, and it is not a pretty picture. While legal weed is spreading like, well, weeds, the feds are still locking up hundreds of thousands …
Read More »Tennessee: Will the Next Governor Support Medical Marijuana?
With five out of seven candidates tentatively supporting the legalization of medical marijuana for qualified patients, Tennessee’s voters remain optimistic regarding access to effective medical treatments as they look forward to the 2018 gubernatorial race. Though none of the seven …
Read More »New Study Finds Legal Cannabis Equals Fewer Pharmaceuticals
“Legal access to cannabis may reduce the use of multiple classes of dangerous prescription medications in certain patient populations,” according to the results of a new study. Regardless of what some officials in the Trump administration believe, Americans have a …
Read More »Tennessee sets up panel to consider medical marijuana
Published: Aug 29, 2017, 8:49 am • Updated: Aug 29, 2017, 8:49 am By The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Legislative leaders are setting up a special committee to examine whether medical marijuana should be legalized in Tennessee. WKRN-TV reports …
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