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Ode to a Vanishing Handcraft

Project CBD

Such simplicity reflects the book’s inner beauty, which documents the history of a disappearing handcraft, that of traditional hemp cultivation and fabric production. It was almost taboo to talk about hemp, because it was intimately connected to drugs and was banned in Sweden [until 2003],” she told Project CBD.

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Understanding Medical Marijuana Laws in California

MMJ Recs

Legal Framework for Medical Marijuana in California California’s legal history towards establishing a comprehensive legal framework for medical marijuana began in 1996 with the passing of Proposition 215, also known as the Compassionate Use Act.

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Sacha Baron Cohen Sues Dispensary for $9 Million Over Billboard Ad

SpeedWeed

Baron Cohen interviewed with Dan Skye for High Times for the October 2003 cover of the magazine—but interviewed as Ali G, his fictional stoner character, not himself. While the English actor’s characters Ali G, Borat and Brüno are wildly silly, he enjoyed an ivy league education, studying History with a focus on anti-semitism at Cambridge.

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Bangkok Post Report: Cannabis clinics set to mushroom – currently 500 in operation

Cannabis Law Report

Ed: this was introduced in 2003 by the eponymous Canadian engineer who reportedly used it to cure his skin cancer and shares knowledge on how to extract the oil for free on his website]. In our clinics, we use traditional medical doctors to diagnose patients’ conditions and learn their background history.

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Searching for the origin of Blue Dream marijuana strain

SpeedWeed

It’s one day post-Memorial Day 2021, so “hot vax Summer” has officially begun, and I’m smoking Blue Dream in the city that launched the globally renowned cultivar in 2003. It shows up around 2003. In 2018, it made history in the U.S. Few places on Earth have a cannabis culture as deep and influential.

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How cannabis vaporizers are continuing to evolve

SpeedWeed

In Histories , Greek writer Herodotus recounted the details of a ritual the ancient Scythians of Central Asia performed, who lived around 600 BCE – 400 CE: Hemp seeds and plants were put on red-hot stones and people engulfed themselves in the resulting vapor. . The history of vaporizers. The rest is still history in the making.

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Grown Rogue Appoints Tom Fortner As Chief Operating Officer

Cannabis Law Report

Tom stayed on as President of Hines Color Division, leading the seven, newly acquired independent color businesses until 2003. I believe my history and skills meld well with where the company is and wants go in the future.”. After 20 years of growth, Willow Creek was purchased by Hines Horticulture in 1999.