Biden’s Drug Czar Wants To Make It Easier To Research Marijuana, Psychedelics And Other Schedule I Substances – Marijuana Moment
The Washington State attorney general’s office appeared alongside lawyers representing cancer patients on Thursday, telling a federal appeals panel that people in end-of-life care deserve legal access to psilocybin—the main psychoactive compound in psychedelic mushrooms—under state and federal right-to-try laws. “It is entirely consistent with the purpose and language of the state and federal right-to-try laws to include any controlled substances that have completed Phase 1 trials, including Schedule I controlled substances,” Washington Deputy Solicitor General Peter B. Gonick said in oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, referring to a…
Read More »Business Watch: Celebrate Work And Workers This Labor Day – Caledonian Record
Labor Day. What does it mean to you? Is it back-to-school and backyard barbecue or recognition through celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers, a day to pay tribute to the American worker who advances our economic and political democracy? Helen Keller, a groundbreaking workers’ advocate with the American Civil Liberties Union and a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, once said, “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” If any social good results from the…
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C’mon Connecticut, Massachusetts Town Hosting Cannabis Cultivator’s Cup – i95rock.com
Constant change is around us every day, and events that we wouldn’t have dreamed possible 5-10 years ago are actually happening. Sports betting and gambling are mere days, if not weeks away here in Connecticut, and adult-use recreational marijuana has been legalized. Soon you will see CT Lottery sports betting outlets appearing around the state and dedicated sports betting lounges at our casinos. We’re just starting to see the Cannabis growers, manufacturers and retailers starting to buy up the vacant commercial real estate around Connecticut, and it’s going to explode. Massachusetts has a couple of years on Connecticut when it…
Read More »Cannabis Consumption Lounges Hitting Big In Illinois
It’s an encouraging blueprint for the rest of the U.S. Free Book Preview Cannabis Capital Learn how to get your business funded in the Cannabis economy! September 3, 2021 3 min read This story originally appeared on Leafreport Long awaited cannabis consumption lounges in Illinois took 18 months to launch after the state legalized recreational marijuana at the beginning of 2020. But with two lounges now in business and several more preparing to open in the coming weeks, all signs have so far been positive. Consumption venues in DeKalb, located 70 miles west of Chicago, and the tiny southern town…
Read More »Profit from Marijuana Without Touching the Plant – Yahoo Finance
It’s impossible to argue with the fact marijuana has come an extremely long way in a relatively short period of time. Only 25 years ago, California became the first state to legalize cannabis for medical purposes, when voters passed The Compassionate Use Act of 1996. The nation’s inaugural medical marijuana bill followed a few decades of slow grassroots efforts to destigmatize marijuana after it was officially classified as a Schedule I drug in 1970 when Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act. In 2021, a majority of U.S. citizens live in states where some form of marijuana consumption is legal and…
Read More »Updated cannabis state-by-state rankings guide – August 2021 | Thompson Coburn LLP – JDSupra – JD Supra
California New Ranking: 1 Old Ranking: 1 Change: 0 California remains No. 1 as the largest cannabis market in the nation. California has legalized both adult-use and medical marijuana, making it one of the most relaxed states in the nation with regard to cannabis use top spot. Nevada New Ranking: 2 Old Ranking: 2 Change: 0 Nevada legalized medical marijuana in 2001 and adult-use marijuana in 2017. Adult use marijuana restrictions are similar to restrictions on alcohol: users must be 21 years of age or older; marijuana may only be purchased from a business licensed in Nevada; selling or giving…
Read More »Federal Drug Official Admits Legalization Doesn’t Increase Teen Use
A top U.S. federal drug policy official recently admitted that her prior fears that cannabis legalization would lead to an increase in teen marijuana use failed to materialize, saying that reform advocates were “right” about the impact cannabis policy change would have on young people. Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), also said that she supports continued drug policy reform at the federal level. Appearing on the podcast “Psychoactive” with Ethan Nadelmann, founder of the Drug Policy Alliance, Volkow said that she was “expecting the use of marijuana among adolescents would go up” with…
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Marijuana in Missouri: Measure legalizing recreational use of cannabis could be on 2022 ballot – KTVI Fox 2 St. Louis
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