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Action Needed: Marijuana Vote This Week In Congress

NORML

These programs are now wide open to DOJ raids and arrests since former Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded guidance known as the Cole Memo last year. Never in modern history has there existed greater public support for ending the nation’s nearly century-long failed experiment with marijuana prohibition.

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Marijuana Possession Cases No Longer Prosecuted In Baltimore

MassRoots

These “common sense changes,” which are to be implemented immediately, also state that the quantity a person has will not matter, and neither will the person’s criminal history, as long as it is only for personal use. Nearly 5,000 marijuana possession convictions that have occurred since 2011 may be overturned as well.

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Is Cannabis/Hemp Legal in the United States?

Otherside Farms

This was part of their “Hemp for Victory Program.” Then in 2014, Obama signed the Farm Bill, which would then allow pilot programs for growing hemp, but it still wasn’t supposed to be used commercially. The program first started in 2014, and there were only 33 acres when it first started.

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Cannabis regulations in Slovenia

The Cannigma

In 2014, Slovenia’s government approved a new harm reduction plan which regulated that personal possession was no longer a criminal offense. Slovenia has a long history of cultivating industrial hemp. Slovenia’s medical program exists, but it’s not straightforward. Medical marijuana in Slovenia. CBD regulations.

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Study Shows That Programmers Embrace Cannabis—But Not for Wellness

Veriheal

Throughout history, creative minds have embraced cannabis. Cannabis and Programming. Participants were asked to detail the relationship between their use of cannabis and programming. Regarding cannabis use and work, 53% of participants stated they had consumed cannabis while programming a minimum of 12 times.

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Banning Smokeable Hemp Is a Big Texas Failure

Veriheal

An okra farmer was raided in the middle of the night in Georgia in 2014. Hot Hemp and a History of Cannabis Issues. Now, authorities will have to worry about policing hemp along with keeping up the tight regulation of the state’s cannabis program. Sadly, this wouldn’t be the first time that authorities mixed the two up.

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Why cannabis can make your heart race

The Cannigma

A 1988 trial found that women given very low-THC (1.8%) joints showed “statically significant increases in pulse rate,” and this increase was more pronounced and lasted longer for participants with a past history of intermittent marijuana use 5. The trial did not include a control population given a lower dose of THC however.