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Adult-use Cannabis Is Now Legal in New Mexico: Gov. Signs Legalization, Expungement Bills
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Politics
On Monday, New Mexico became the latest state to legalize adult-use cannabis, after Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the Cannabis Regulation Act. Sales are expected to begin before April 2022. Following a legalization wave led by New York and Virginia, this approval now puts more than 43 percent of Americans living in legal cannabis jurisdictions
Cannabis Real Estate Boom In the Northeast
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Business & Finance
Real estate is one of the more difficult aspects of the cannabis industry. Securing a license is tough but getting your location is even tougher. Each state has different regulations and restrictions, which combined with unique real estate markets makes finding and securing property essential. It’s an expensive endeavor and one in which traditional
Majority of Texas patients prefer medical cannabis over prescription drugs
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Medical News
A new survey conducted in Texas reveals that 61 per cent of respondents who are part of the state’s medical cannabis program turn to the herb as replacement for prescription drugs. Almost 2,900 people participated in the survey by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy along with the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana La
More than 40,000 pounds of medical marijuana sold in Arkansas
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Medical News
More than 40,000 pounds of medical marijuana have been sold in Arkansas since the first dispensary opened in May 2019, according to the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission (AMMC). A dispensary in Bentonville has sold the most medical marijuana. The 42,769 pounds sold is valued at $285 million, according to a press release from Scott Hardin, a spo
Rhode Island State receives no bids to run lottery for new medical marijuana dispensaries
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Politics
State marijuana regulators are reconsidering how they will now run a lottery to decide who wins licenses to operate six additional medical marijuana dispensaries after no business answered a bid solicitation to develop the process.  "Unfortunately, the state did not receive any responses," Brian Hodge, a spokesman for the Department of Business Reg
Ohio Extends Hemp License Application Deadline to May
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Politics
The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) has extended the licensure deadline for hemp farms from April 9 to May 28. The department received multiple requests from hemp farmers over the last few weeks to extend the deadline. Many existing and prospective hemp farmers expressed that they are still experiencing delays in obtaining the necessary land a
Considering Opportunities for the Upcoming Federal Taxation of Cannabis
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Politics
The change in the presidential administration has focused cannabis businesses on the potential for legalization nationwide. Running parallel to full federal legalization will be a corresponding regulatory and taxation scheme replacing the current regime of IRC §280E which prohibits anything but the cost of goods sold being deducted from a state lic
Does Consuming Marijuana Help You Lose Or Gain Weight?
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Medical News
A 2015 study found that obese mice actually lost weight from ingesting cannabis because THC caused changes in the gut microbiome that regulates weight loss and digestion. Cannabis consumers have known for years about the effects of cannabis on appetite. In fact, one of the more enduring stereotypes of the side effects of cannabis usage is the consu
Chopped 420 Brings Cannabis Cooking Competition to Discovery+
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Cannabis News
The popular TV show "Chopped," as every foodie knows, involves four chefs who face off against one another in a timed cooking contest. The goal is to prepare a three-course meal using four secret ingredients. The one who gets the best score from a panel of judges wins. A new spinoff of that show is designed to appeal to a cannabis-loving audience.
Study: California’s licensed cannabis shops aren’t selling to minors
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Cannabis News
California’s licensed marijuana shops are doing an excellent job at preventing sales to minors, according to a first-of-its-kind study commissioned by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. That means the industry is living up to a key promise advocates made when voters legalized cannabis for adults 21 and older nearly five years ago. “License
President Biden Is Too Busy To Legalize Cannabis? That’s What VP Harris Claims
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Politics
Despite all of the resistance, the fact is that cannabis legalization is happening right now. State by state, country by country, it’s going global. When the Biden Administration took the White House, the headlines all clamored that it will be a “good time for cannabis”. Stocks seemed to echo the sentiment. Yet, since the administration took office
3 Best Marijuana Stocks to Buy in April
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Business & Finance
This month just might be the best time in a long time to buy cannabis stocks. Why? Much of the initial excitement about the increased prospects of significant U.S. cannabis reform has waned. With the Biden administration focused on other priorities, some investors could even be despairing that anything will be done. However, changes that would bene
Thailand’s ‘father’ of cannabis wants small-time growers to be part of medical marijuana industry
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Business & Finance
When Aram Limsakul’s son and daughter came down with dengue fever two years ago, he gave the children, then aged five and four, a vaporiser to inhale the smoke from his own home-grown marijuana. Within a few days, “their fever reduced, they stopped vomiting and ate for the first time in days”, he said. Original link
Five Things Every Cannabis Business Needs Before They Open
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Business & Finance
When it comes to small business opportunities these days, few phrases give people the old dollar-sign-eyes more than “legal cannabis”. From states like Michigan where it’s been approved for both medicinal and adult use, to places like South Carolina where legalization has been a popular topic for ballots and voters, cannabis is slowly turning into
Here's how you can get your marijuana-related criminal convictions expunged in Michigan
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Politics
More than two years after Michigan voters approved marijuana for adult use, residents convicted of many pot-related crimes that have now been legalized have an opportunity to expunge them from their records.   Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed a sweeping "clean slate" package of bills in October that will automatically expunge some criminal records
Harvest Of NZ’s Largest Medical Cannabis Crop Commences
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Business & Finance
New Zealand medical cannabis company Puro has kicked off the harvest of its crop, which it claims to be the largest in the country to date. Planted in December last year, tens of thousands of plants have been grown on the 10-hectare site in Kēkerengū, on the Kaikōura coast of NZ’s South Island (Te Waipounamu). Cultivated under organic protocols, ha
What happens when two cannabis strains are combined?
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Technology
While people have likely smoked from a pipe or a bowl that had remnants from a different weed strain, mixing two strains is not something that usually done, at least not as a first choice. Is it possible to produce different highs when mixing two types of weed? Can a person tailor a high by playing scientist? Some people believe that’s the case and
New Mexico governor set to sign recreational marijuana bill
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Politics
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed legislation Monday legalizing recreational marijuana use within months and kicking off sales next year, making it the seventh state since November to put an end to pot prohibition. The governor, a Democrat, has supported marijuana reform as a way to create jobs and shore up state revenue. On Monday, she

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