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Arkansas Officials Report Medical Cannabis Sales Top $200 Million
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Medical News
The medical marijuana industry in Arkansas is booming, according to reports. Medical marijuana sales in Arkansas have hit a significant milestone a little more than a year after the first dispensaries in the state began serving customers. Local news outlets in the Natural State reported that medical cannabis sales in Arkansas have officially eclips
Australia Could Be One Of The Leading International Cannabis Markets In 2021
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Business & Finance
    Australia is a legal cannabis market that rarely receives the attention it deserves and is a market that we are bullish on in 2021. In 2019, we noticed a slowdown in interest in the Australian cannabis market as companies started to focus on the opportunity in Latin America. Since then, the Latin American cannabis market has not grown as much a
After Blockbuster Aphria-Tilray Merger, World’s Largest Cannabis Company Eyes U.S. Market
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Business & Finance
Tilray and Aphria, two of the biggest marijuana companies in Canada, announced plans to merge on Wednesday and create the world’s largest cannabis outfit. With existing medical and recreational cannabis businesses in Canada and Europe, the new conglomerate is positioning itself to eventually enter the biggest weed market in the world: the U.S. Orig
Prohibition Partners' Top Ten Trends for 2021
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Business & Finance
    As 2020 comes to a close, Prohibition Partners' international team of analysts, consultants and thought-leaders have come together to analyse the top trends set to define the cannabis industry in 2021 and beyond.  From the impact of Brexit and COVID-19 to the rapidly developing legislation in the US and Latin America, find out what is in store
Rand Paul introduces bill to boost hemp THC limits
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Business & Finance
The bill would raise THC limits from 0.3 per cent to one per cent. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul introduced a bill on Tuesday that could raise the THC limits on industrial hemp in the U.S. from 0.3 per cent to one per cent. In a statement, Paul said conversations with Kentucky hemp farmers and processors informed the Hemp Economic Mobilization Plan (H
New Jersey Moves Closer To Setting Up Recreational Marijuana
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Cannabis News
Members of the New Jersey state Assembly and Senate have given final approval to legislation permitting the possession of marijuana by adults and regulating its commercial production and retail sales. Each of the measures now awaits the signature of Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy. The Assembly approved A21 by a 49 to 24 vote with six abstentions, and
Marijuana Money
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Business & Finance
The big news this week of course was the announced merger between Aphria and Tilray. Aphria will own over 60% of the combined entity and Irwin Simon, Aphria’s CEO will take on the same role at the new company. However, it will be known as Tilray and use the Tilray symbol.  Mind Medicine (MindMed) Inc. (NEO: MMED) (OTCQB: MMEDF) raised C$80 million
Legislature should legalize marijuana or voters will do it for them
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Politics
Public and political support for legalizing recreational marijuana use has surged. Florida lawmakers need to accept that reality and come up with effective legislation. If not, the public will legalize pot via constitutional amendment. (Photo by strelov/Getty Images) When it comes to legalizing marijuana in Florida, the question is no longer whethe
Plant Hemp Trees & Save the Bees
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Business & Finance
  Bees Love Cannabis Too! In the American agricultural landscape, industrial hemp, Cannabis sativa (Cannabaceae), is a newly developed and rapidly growing crop. Hemp lacks nectar but, as an exclusively wind-pollinated crop, produces an abundance of pollen in agricultural landscapes during a period of time referred to as floral dearth. Researchers h
Program aims to create social equity in cannabis industry
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Politics
Gov. Jared Polis signed a landmark bill affecting the cannabis industry on June 29 in front of Simply Pure in Denver. The dispensary was the first in the nation owned by a Black couple. HB20-1424 creates a new social equity license that is intended to boost minority participation in the cannabis industry. The program goes into effect Jan. 1. The bi
TSA initially reports man tried to smuggle box cutters inside shampoo bottle, but the contraband turned out to be weed
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Cannabis News
Passenger flying into Boston was packing cannabis not animus. The Twitterverse was left scratching its collective head after the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) tweeted a man flying into Boston’s Logan International Airport had jammed two box cutters into what would have been a very large shampoo bottle, but it was really just gar
2 Marijuana Stocks To Watch Before January
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Business & Finance
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Data Suggests Cannabis Use Is Negatively Associated With Cancer Risk
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Medical News
Cancer is cruel. If you or someone that you know was ever diagnosed with cancer, then you are well aware of how terrible it is. Receiving a diagnosis that you or a loved one has cancer is something that is absolutely heartbreaking. It is estimated that roughly 17 million people were diagnosed with cancer in 2018 worldwide. Unfortunately, that numbe
Easier Medicine Access For Ireland’s Medical Cannabis Patients
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Politics
A temporary scheme enabling patients in Ireland easier access to their prescribed medical cannabis treatments has been made permanent. In Ireland, specialist medical consultants can prescribe medical cannabis for patients with certain conditions assuming an appropriate application is submitted to the Department of Health and accepted. The country’s
California Cannabis Industry May See Loosened Regulations
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Politics
The Bureau of Cannabis Control‘s Cannabis Advisory Committee approved recommendations that would relax several regulations for the California cannabis industry, aimed at helping struggling cannabis businesses. The recommendations were included in the state panel’s annual report. While arguably the largest state market for cannabis in the United Sta
Cannabis Safety Needs To Be Balanced With Sustainability
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Technology
The cannabis industry is booming all over the globe, mostly from a medical cannabis standpoint.  Dozens of countries now allow some form of legal medical cannabis industry to operate within their borders, and some of those countries also have some type of legal import/export industry. Adult-use is far more limited. Only two countries, Uruguay and C
California On Track To Collect $1 Billion In Cannabis Taxes
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Business & Finance
California’s booming cannabis industry has been around much longer than many in the United States, and now, the state is on pace to collect as much as $1 billion in taxes from sales made in 2020, a record landmark for the local industry.  Original link
Australian researchers suggest loosening cannabis research rules could remove the cap on possibilities
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Technology
Anti-drug laws are putting a damper on fully exploring marijuana’s potential with respect to its possible health-helping benefits and how cannabis genomics may contribute to meeting that goal. Researchers at Australia’s La Trobe University’s reviewed a raft of international studies of cannabis genomics and confirmed what many already believe. Despi

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