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Colorado NORML and Denver NORML Host Citizen Lobby Day to Push for Consumer Protections

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” Never in modern history has there existed greater public support for ending the nation’s nearly century-long experiment with marijuana prohibition. Sixty-six percent of US adults believe that “the use of marijuana should be made legal,” according to national survey data compiled by the Gallup.

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Surgeon General’s Advisory Highlights Need for Further Cannabis Regulation, Not Criminalization

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In fact, it is precisely because marijuana use may pose potential risks to certain consumers — for example, adolescents or people with a family history of psychiatric illness — that NORML believes that lawmakers should regulate it accordingly. percent to 12.5

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Weekly Cannabis Roundup November 5

Veriheal

New York’s rec market is slowly but surely rolling out, a peer-reviewed study linked state cannabis prohibition to high race-based arrests, and an analysis of thousands of Army records revealed that recruits with a history of cannabis use are just as likely as their peers to excel. Let’s dive into this week’s cannanews.

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Paper: Racial Capitalism and the African American Experience Entering the Cannabis Industry By Dr. Ayoka Nurse

Cannabis Law Report

From the systemic history of racism in the United States, African Americans exclusion from economic opportunities leads to maximizing profits for the White elite (Hirschman, 2019). Data were analyzed based on the central question, and three themes emerged. Central Research Question. Refer Madness [Motion Picture]. Hirschman, D.,

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Good news, governor: Cannabis will not kill your kids

The Cannigma

That’s what the data shows from around the country and that’s why it’s dangerous to go around the established process that we have.”. Yes, a study from 2012 found that cannabis may have a neurotoxic effect on adolescence brains and called for more prevention of adolescent cannabis use.

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GROWING PAINS PT. 1 EMERGING PATTERNS IN THE RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA MARKETPLACE

Cannabis Law Report

This movement was, of course, spurred by Colorado voters’ watershed passage of Amendment 64 back in 2012. . We have enough data now to analyze it and draw the right conclusions. Forbes recently reported that eighteen states could join that number, totalling 30 by the end of this year.

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CBD Ban: Brits Take Up Fight And Send Lawyers To Brussels

Cannabis Law Report

and derived products containing cannabinoids are considered novel foods as a history of consumption has not been demonstrated. It has also recently began flexing extra-territoriality muscles in regards to data regulation, positioning itself as a world police of consumer data, to the chagrin of Silicon Valley’s luminaries.

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