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What is the Best Way to Consume Marijuana for your Health?
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Cannabis News
There are so many different opinions on what the best way to consume marijuana is and as a result, it can be challenging for the average person to know what they should do. Some people believe that smoking marijuana is the way to go, while others believe that edibles are a better option. It seems with so many opinions that there is no right answer,
FINANCIAL Latest Cannabis All Male SPAC To Raise $100 Million
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Business & Finance
On Friday, the newest cannabis SPAC Achari Ventures Holdings Corp. I announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 10,000,000 units at a price of $10.00 per unit. The units are expected to be listed on the Nasdaq Global Market and trade under the ticker symbol “AVHIU” beginning October 15, 2021. Original link
From Former Prisons to Walmarts, Cannabis Companies Are Breathing New Life Into Vacant Buildings
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Business & Finance
If there’s one truth in life, it’s that weed can grow just about anywhere. Backyards,  greenhouses, basements, rolling hills and acres of farms in every state, and even prisons. Well, a former prison, anyway. One of the nation’s leading cannabis operators, Green Thumb Industries will open a modern ‘cannabis campus’ on the site of a former federal p
Growing pains: Prop 64 unleashed recreational pot, but with heavy financial burdens
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Business & Finance
 Five years ago, California’s approval of Proposition 64 opened the door to recreational marijuana and budding new local economies. The proposition was billed as a win for increased tax revenues, entrepreneurship, jobs and the hope of beating back marijuana’s long-established and vast illicit cannabis market. Original link
Austin’s first-ever Texas Hemp Harvest Festival celebrates growth of marijuana’s cousin
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Cannabis News
Festival season in Austin has a pretty dope new addition: a one-day festival featuring music and highlighting a cousin of marijuana. The first-ever Texas Hemp Harvest Festival is set for 10 am-11 pm October 23 at Carson Creek Ranch, a 58-acre event venue in eastern Travis County. Musical acts scheduled to perform include Jamaican reggae and hip-hop
California marijuana busts surge despite legalization as agencies target illicit growers
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Politics
Four years after weed became legal in California for adult recreational use, state law enforcement officials have doubled the amount of illicit marijuana plants seized and eradicated in an annual campaign. California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday announced that the California Department of Justice’s annual Campaign Against Marijuana Planting
Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority releases patient advisory after batch of pot tests positive for potentially dangerous compound
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Medical News
The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority, or OMMA, released a patient advisory Monday for the state when a specific batch of pot came back positive for the compound THC-O-acetate. In their release acting as a “smoke signal”, the governing agency said it’s a combination that could prove dangerous. They are now looking into how it got into the batch
Pipp Horticulture Acquires the GGS Group of Companies
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Business & Finance
Pipp Horticulture (a division of Pipp Mobile Storage Systems, Inc.) (“Pipp”), the leading provider of space‐saving, multi‐level mobile cultivation systems, announced today that it has acquired the GGS Group of Companies (“GGS”). Based in Vineland, Ontario, GGS is one of the most recognized names in the Horticulture industry. They have been the lead
Wisconsin’s Hemp Program Will Be Handed Over to Federal Authorities
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Business & Finance
Wisconsin is set to become the first state to relinquish authority over its state hemp program to the federal U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The announced transition will occur on January 1st, 2022. Starting on that date, Wisconsin farmers and hemp processors will have to comply with the final rule on hemp released by USDA earlier this year
Facebook users falsely claim 'marijuana preserved with honey cures 40 health conditions'
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Medical News
Facebook posts shared hundreds of times claim that "marijuana preserved with honey" cures 40 different medical conditions, including Alzheimer's, diabetes and high blood pressure. The posts are misleading; there is no evidence the purported remedy can cure these conditions. Health experts said people should see a doctor if they have health concerns
Medical cannabis advocates head for MS state capital to demand special session
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Politics
 Mississippians prepare to protest in front of the governor’s mansion in Jackson, demanding Governor Tate Reeves to call a special session for the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act. Reeves told lawmakers that if both sides, Republican and Democrat, were able to come to a consensus and draft a bill for a medical cannabis program, he would call a spec
Does Cannabis Help With Bone Health?
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Medical News
The skeletal system is an essential of the human anatomy. We need our skeletal system to stand erect, to walk properly and function optimally. The sad reality is that, a lot of people take their bone health for granted thereby affecting the skeletal system. For some individuals, poor bone health is caused by the strenuous activities that they engag
How Mitch McConnell Accidentally Created An Unregulated THC Market
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Politics
Sen. Mitch McConnell didn’t know what he was doing when he passed the 2018 Farm Bill. The bill included his provision that legalized industrial hemp, a form of cannabis that can be made into a wide variety of products including cannabidiol, a non-intoxicating cannabis compound commonly called CBD. That part was intentional — the law quickly launche
Crackdown on medical cannabis education and promotion harms patients
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Medical News
Week after week, thousands of new patients enroll in Missouri’s fast-growing medical marijuana program. Less than a year since the start of retail sales, nearly 150,000 Missourians with cancer, epilepsy, glaucoma and 20 other qualifying conditions can now safely purchase their medicine at any of the more than 150 dispensaries approved to operate so
Surprising Side Effects of Too Much Marijuana, Say Experts
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Medical News
The days of Reefer Madness hysteria seem long behind us as more and more states legalize recreational marijuana. (Last week, one of the most conservative Supreme Court justices, Clarence Thomas, said he believed federal anti-marijuana laws might no longer be necessary.) Although pot is no longer considered the mania-inducing menace of years past, i
47% of U.S. Cannabis Consumers Report Choosing Cannabis Products Over Alcohol
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Cannabis News
New Frontier Data, the premier data, analytics and technology firm specializing in the cannabis industry worldwide, publishes its latest report, Cannabis & Wellness: A New Consumer Paradigm, released in partnership with SōRSE and Jointly, examining various facets of health and wellness-related consumption patterns amongst current U.S. cannabis cons
We Don’t Talk Enough About Cannabis And Its Effect On Senior Sex
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Medical News
Cannabis and its effect on sex is a topic that is often discussed. But cannabis and its effect on the sex lives of seniors doesn’t get nearly as much coverage, but it should. The range of which cannabis can affect someone’s sex life is wide, from simply helping people feel more turned on, to opening the mind to deeper intimacy and promoting mindful
Stamford officials want to limit marijuana use, but state law may have it covered
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Politics
 Some Stamford representatives want to prevent people from smoking marijuana in certain parts of the city, including on school property, but it’s unclear if they have to do anything to make such activity illegal. That’s because a recent bill signed into law by Gov. Ned Lamont already establishes restrictions for marijuana use. The law allows people

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