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Thailand Cannabis: From a war on drugs to weed cultivators
Thailand legalised cultivating and consuming cannabis this month, reversing a hard-line approach of long prison sentences or even the death penalty for drug offences. Twenty-one years ago, I had one of the more searing experiences of my journalistic career. We were invited to watch, and film, the execution of five prisoners, four of them convicted drug traffickers, by firing squad in Bangkok's Bangkwan prison. The look on those men's faces, as they were walked, leg-chains clinking, to the pavilion where the …
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How Recreational Weed Transformed A Small California Town
From the outside, Jose Rivas’s gray, one-story office building seems just as unassuming as Woodlake, the small Tulare County City where it’s located. But once you’ve been escorted inside the wrought iron gate and checked in at the security desk, you’ll see a chemistry lab of so many potheads’ dreams: bubbling evaporators, storage tanks of liquid nitrogen, and trays and trays of drying marijuana buds. But Rivas isn’t a pothead – he’s the CEO of a cannabis company known as Premium …
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Best Mairijuana Seed Bank in 2022: Top Cannabis Seed Bank
Top Seed Bank to Buy Cannabis Seeds Online Royal King Seeds Royal King Seeds sells premium marijuana seeds of so many different types. Whether you are a pro who has been at this for a while, or someone looking to try this for the first time, there are seeds with your name on them! The site is also a great learning tool. If you don’t know a lot about growing marijuana, this site is full of resources to get you started. …
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Weedmaps parent launches digital marijuana retail payments in Canada
Cannabis technology company WM Technology is launching an integrated digital payment service for cannabis retailers in Ontario, Canada’s largest adult-use market, with plans to launch in other provinces. Customers of participating retailers will be able to browse cannabis products on WM Technology’s Weedmaps listing platform, then make direct payments to the retailer using Visa or MasterCard, WM Technology announced Thursday morning. The new functionality follows Ontario’s recent move to make permanent cannabis retail delivery and curbside pickup, cementing a temporary program launched early on in …
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Is weed the Chosen People’s drug of choice? These artifacts suggest it may be
NEW YORK — I’ve been to my fair share of events at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, but this was the first time where a guy milling about outside had a Grateful Dead patch on his jacket. It was immediately clear that the opening night discussion and celebration for the exhibit “Am Yisrael High: The Story of Jews and Cannabis” was going to be a little different. Others gathering at the Center for Jewish History in Lower Manhattan — the Smithsonian-affiliated five-headed hydra …
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Three measures to legalize recreational marijuana in MO, but one seems more likely to succeed
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Almost 182,000 Missourians have a medicinal cannabis card, and recreational could soon be on the horizon. Three measures that would legalize adult-use cannabis had a chance of moving forward this year, but only one seems likely to see the light of day. The group needed at least 180,000 signatures from 6 of the 8 state congressional districts. "We turned in more than double of that so we're very confident that even with a lot of those being invalid, that …
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Acreage sees cannabis business sprouting in the Northeast
Acreage Holdings Inc. plans to leverage its cannabis medical market presence as adult use sales open up in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, the company’s chief financial officer said. Adult use sales in selected stores opened up in New Jersey on April 21, as a “huge driver” for growth in 2022, plus New York and Connecticut are also readying their markets as well, CFO Steve Goertz said. “The dominos are stacking up very well for us in the Northeast,” Goertz said. Like …
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‘My pain levels have completely dropped’: how medical marijuana changed my life
Andrea Wright, 39, from Bristol, was diagnosed in 2013 with psoriatic arthritis and fibromyalgia, a long-term condition that causes pain all over the body. She was in such severe constant pain, and unable to sleep for more than two continuous hours a night, that she was retired on ill health from her job at National Grid “at the grand old age of 33”. She says: “I had to stop work because the pain was too much. It’s been very depressing; I …
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Germany Speeds Up The Process To Legalize Recreational Cannabis
When Germany's new coalition included the legalization of recreational cannabis in its political agenda in late 2021, there were few details on how to regulate the industry. However, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach announced last week that it would start the legal process for cannabis legalization soon. He told German newspaper Handelsblatt he changed his mind on legalization over the past two years, and he now believes the dangers of non-legalization outweigh the risks of recreational cannabis legalization. "I've always been opposed to cannabis legalization, but …
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House passes bill to decriminalize marijuana
The House on Friday voted to decriminalize cannabis on the federal level and allow for the expungement of some marijuana convictions. Why it matters: The legislation would monumentally reshape U.S. drug policy and the decades-long war on drugs, keeping pace with states across the country that have legalized marijuana. The same bill was passed by the House in 2020 but stalled in the then-Republican-controlled Senate. Driving the news: The bill passed the House 220-204. Three Republicans joined all but two Democrats in passing the bill: Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Tom …
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Texas Activists Turn In Signatures To Put Cannabis Decriminalization On Austin’s 2022 Ballot
Texas activists on Wednesday turned in signatures to place a marijuana decriminalization initiative on Austin’s 2022 ballot. Ground Game Texas, a progressive organization that was established earlier this year, submitted more than 30,000 signatures to qualify the local measure to go before voters in the May 7 election next year. While Austin, as well as other Texas cities like Dallas, have already independently enacted law enforcement policy changes aimed at reducing arrests for cannabis-related offences by issuing citations and summons, the Austin …
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Top Federal Drug Official Says There’s ‘No Evidence’ That Occasional Cannabis Use Is Harmful For Adults
The head of the nation’s top federal drug research agency says that she’s yet to see evidence that occasional marijuana use by adults is harmful. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director Nora Volkow made the remarks in an interview with FiveThirtyEight that was published on Tuesday. It’s a notable admission given that the agency has historically gone to great lengths to highlight the potential risks of cannabis consumption. “There’s no evidence to my knowledge that occasional [adult] marijuana use has harmful …