Original Article can be found here: https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/how-nurse-mum-and-police-officer-dad-became-sudden-criminals-in-desperate-bid-to-save-dying-son-c-7635561 Lucy Haslam remembers her son’s first “drags” of a marijuana joint. Dan puffed on the drug, sourced illegally from a friend, as his conflicted parents, Lucy and Lou, looked on. With a chemotherapy port protruding from his shirt, the young man hadn’t wanted to eat for days – […]
Original article appeared here: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/todaysdebate/2022/07/31/legalize-marijuana-federal-prohibition-more-harm-than-good/10100661002/ A decade ago, Americans were nearly evenly split on whether to legalize marijuana. While half the country favored revising U.S. drug laws to make room for legal pot, the other half said to keep cannabis prohibition in place. Public opinion has since shifted dramatically. Now more than two-thirds of the country […]
Original article can be found here: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/07/30/1114246987/states-regulate-delta-8 Michelle Peace will sometimes dip into a convenience store and emerge with a handful of hemp products like delta-8. They come in gummies, tinctures, vape cartridges and joints and they’re designed to get you high. Despite knowing glances from cashiers, Peace isn’t headed to a party. She’s the […]
Original article can be found here: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/07/29/john-boehner-marijuana-lawsuit-00048620 ne way or the other, the John Boehner weed lawsuit shows how cutthroat the cannabis sector of Washington’s political-influence industry is. If you buy the complaint filed by Washington lobbyist James Pericola, you’re liable to see evidence of a cutthroat business environment in the allegation that the former […]
Original Article can be found here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dariosabaghi/2022/07/27/switzerland-fully-legalizes-medical-cannabis-and-allows-export/?sh=4905fe7e64b0 Switzerland is to join other European countries that have legalized cannabis for medical purposes. From August 1, patients can get medical cannabis through a medical prescription. Before the new legislation, medical cannabis patients had to request a request to the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), the Swiss […]
Original article can be found here: https://mjbizdaily.com/when-will-canada-allow-cbd-to-be-sold-in-mainstream-retail-stores/ A watershed CBD recommendation expected this summer from Canadian health authorities could resolve one of the oddest differences between the cannabis industries in Canada and the U.S. – their starkly different approaches to hemp extracts. In the United States, hemp is legal and broadly available, while higher-THC cannabis […]
Original post can be found here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-26/zimbabwe-gives-nod-to-cannabis-use-in-medicines-for-first-time Zimbabwe is allowing cannabis to be sold for the first time as part of complementary medicines given to patients. The Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe has invited all licensed cannabis and hemp producers, manufacturers, importers, exporters and retail pharmacists to apply for approval to sell the products. The […]
Original article was found here: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/marijuana-bill-revealed-latest-legalization-121124555.html U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act on July 21. The bill would remove cannabis from the federal list of controlled substances and enable states to implement their own cannabis […]
Original article can be found here: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-62261094 When a pink glow lit up the evening sky above an Australian town on Wednesday, local woman Tammy Szumowski wondered if the apocalypse had arrived. “I was just being a cool, calm mum, telling the kids: ‘There’s nothing to worry about,’” she told the BBC. “But in my […]
Original article was found here: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/short-sellers-wind-down-pot-191803684.html (Bloomberg) — Cannabis short sellers are ratcheting down their bets that the beleaguered sector will continue its slide. Short interest in pot stocks has tumbled to $632 million from $3.14 billion in May 2021, even as share prices plunged in the past year, according to data from S3 Partners. […]