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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. Despite the U.S.

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Is cannabis legal in South Africa?

The Cannigma

Recreational: decriminalized Medical: legal . Cannabis, known as dagga in Afrikaans, is decriminalized in South Africa. This ruling sparked the decriminalization of cannabis possession and gave the government a timeline to implement legal cannabis. Decriminalization is not the same as legal. Cannabis in South Africa.

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Which States Have The Highest Percentage Of Medical Marijuana Users In The U.S.?

MMJ Recs

A Brief History Of The Legal Status Of Marijuana In The U.S. In 1973, states began to tentatively decriminalize the use of marijuana while maintaining its illegal status. After this, more and more states began to decriminalize the drug. Image by StayRegular on Pixabay : MMJ use is common in the U.S.

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5 Therapeutic Differences Between CBD & MMJ

MMJ Recs

A Brief History Of Marijuana. It remained a criminal offense to use marijuana nationwide until 1973 when, slowly but surely, states began to decriminalize the use of marijuana. In 2012, after much lobbying and deliberation, Washington became the first U.S. Marijuana was first made illegal in the United States in 1906.

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Federal Drug Law Presents Few Obstacles for Cannabis Patents

Cannabis Law Report

The nationwide push toward wide-scale marijuana legalization began in 2012, when Colorado became the first state to legalize marijuana for recreational use, and has opened legitimate markets for marijuana entrepreneurs that did not exist only a decade earlier. The USPTO’s Rich History of Cannabis Patents. Are They Enforceable?

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Medical Marijuana vs. Recreational Marijuana

The Joint Blog

History of Recreational Marijuana Vs Medical Marijuana : The Marijuana that you find in drug stores is usually labeled and marketed as hemp oil or hemp seeds. With the advent of the 21st Century, many states took a softer approach toward the subject and voted to decriminalize the use of marijuana. in the 1940s.

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How Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation Weathered the State’s Winter Storm

SpeedWeed

in 2012, part of a medical cannabis market that has grown steadily ever since. . How did you find yourself one of the few history makers in the cannabis industry? District Growers established itself in Washington, D.C., Here, our recent conversation with Barnette helps illuminate that need.