Marijuana Decriminalization Reduces Arrests And Racial Disparities In Law Enforcement, Study Finds – Marijuana Moment
A top federal health agency is seeking to promote studies into the efficacy of a variety of harm reduction policies—including decriminalization and safe consumption sites—as part of a push to combat the overdose epidemic. While the Biden administration has yet to take a position on policy proposals to authorize safe consumption facilities, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) put out a pair of requests for applications (RFAs) on Wednesday for an effort that will provide funding for efforts to investigate how that and other harm reduction policies could help address the drug crisis. Specifically, NIH wants to establish a Harm…
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Indiana Marijuana Legalization And Regulatory Bills Pre-Filed For 2022 Session – Marijuana Moment
A top federal health agency is seeking to promote studies into the efficacy of a variety of harm reduction policies—including decriminalization and safe consumption sites—as part of a push to combat the overdose epidemic. While the Biden administration has yet to take a position on policy proposals to authorize safe consumption facilities, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) put out a pair of requests for applications (RFAs) on Wednesday for an effort that will provide funding for efforts to investigate how that and other harm reduction policies could help address the drug crisis. Specifically, NIH wants to establish a Harm…
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2021: The Least Eventful Year For Marijuana – Forbes
2021 was a nothing burger of a year for cannabis policy, regulation, and legislation. The year came in with the optimism of a giant hot air balloon and slowly but surely that optimism for change leaked out. By the end of the year, legalization supporters felt more like a helium balloon a week after a 5 year old’s birthday party. View of balloons during the “Cultivate Your Rights” march demanding the legalization of marijuana, … [+] in Santiago, on May 18, 2019. (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP) (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images For…
Read More »New La. laws expand medical marijuana, change income taxes – CT Insider
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s medical marijuana program will offer raw, smokable cannabis to its patients, and the state will tweak its calculations for state income taxes as more than two dozen new laws take effect Saturday with the start of the new year. Most of the new laws were passed in the regular legislative session that lawmakers wrapped up in June. Voters approved the income tax changes in the fall after lawmakers sent the measure to the ballot for consideration. MEDICAL MARIJUANA The expansion of Louisiana’s medical marijuana program under the law sponsored by Houma Rep. Tanner Magee,…
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Minimum wage, taxes, and anti-discrimination: The new laws taking effect in 2022 – Fortune
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Minimum wage, taxes, and discrimination: The new laws taking effect in 2022 – Fortune
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Read More »2 Marijuana Mocktails to Celebrate New Year’s Eve
Along with the cheer of the holiday season’s celebrations and get-togethers, there are of course countless opportunities to over indulge in all kinds of seasonal delights. Even while making resolutions of better self-care and healthier choices, it’s incredibly easy to be swept up in moments of making merry involving traditional cocktails and overdo it. We’ve provided recipes for two alternative ways to celebrate. The first is a sweet, tangy, good and good-for-you cannabis-infused shrub. Shrubs, or “drinking vinegars,” originally developed as a way to settle the stomach during the pre-refrigeration era, and have been coming back in popularity as a…
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New State Laws Address Taxes, Housing Deregulation, Other Issues – The Wall Street Journal
Hundreds of state laws across the country are set to take effect in January, dealing with issues including housing deregulation, foam containers and the cost of dating apps. Among the most controversial is a measure passed by California voters in 2018 that requires pork sold in the state—excluding meat in cold storage—to originate at farms that house breeding pigs with a minimum of 24 square feet each. Animal-rights advocates say the rules protect against cruel treatment of farm animals, while pork producers say the space standards will make bacon more expensive and curb supply in the nation’s largest pork market….
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