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ASA offers solution to DOJ research block: Our comments on the DEA’s proposed rules

Americans for Safe Access

On March 23, DEA published a proposed rulemaking —“Controls to Enhance the Cultivation of Marihuana for Research in the United States”—in the Federal Register (85 FR 16292), involving who can grow cannabis in bulk for research purposes.

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Cannabis in Japan – Laws, Use, and History

Sensi Seeds

Prior to 1948, cannabis was widely cultivated in Japan. The post Cannabis in Japan – Laws, Use, and History appeared first on Sensi Seeds Blog. It was valued for its practical uses in making textiles and rope, for example, and as an integral part of religious and spiritual practices. Now cannabis use is deeply frowned upon.

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Action Needed: Marijuana Vote This Week In Congress

NORML

The existing language maintains that federal funds cannot be used to prevent states from “implementing their own state laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession or cultivation of medical marijuana.” Send a message to your lawmaker in less than 20 seconds right now.

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Cannabis & the Bible

Project CBD

Due to its usefulness, cannabis has a very long history of human cultivation. In essence they are suggesting that there’s a coevolutionary relationship between “Man and Marijuana” — and that somehow as we have cultivated cannabis, it may have cultivated us, as well. How long, exactly, remains unknown.

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Court Dismisses Case Demanding DEA to Move Expeditiously to License Cannabis Cultivators

NORML

A federal court on Friday denied a petition for a writ of mandamus that sought to order the US Drug Enforcement Administration to begin licensing private entities that wish to cultivate cannabis.

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Hawaii’s New Hemp Regulations Could Deter Cultivators

Veriheal

Hawaii has put forth new regulations surrounding the cultivation of hemp, a class of cannabis plants that contain 0.3% The History of Hemp Regulations in Hawaii. An estimated 57 licensed cultivators took part in the pilot program until its end in 2020. or less THC. Although the U.S. In July 2016 Hawaii Gov.

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Where Was Cannabis First Cultivated?

Cannabis Life Network

Where was cannabis first cultivated? Well, one theory is cannabis was first cultivated about 12,000 years ago. The proponents of this line of thought further hold that cannabis was cultivated not only […]. The post Where Was Cannabis First Cultivated?