Day: February 14, 2019 (Page 2)

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“If the clinical trial shows that hemp can help reduce blood pressure, then other treatment areas will be examined.” The post Canadian Researchers Studying Hemp Protein to Treat Hypertension appeared first on Leafly. Read More: Canadian Researchers Studying Hemp Protein to Treat HypertensionContinue Reading

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Sustainable packaging company Sana is teaming up with Oceanworks to recycle plastic from the ocean into packaging for cannabis. Read more on how you too can affect change and promote green thinking in the burgeoning industry. The post An Ocean-Friendly Approach to Cannabis Packaging appeared first on Leafly. Continue Reading

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Utah’s biggest health-care provider – Intermountain Healthcare – told its physicians they’re allowed to write medical marijuana recommendations for patients, which could boost the number of potential customers for the state’s upcoming MMJ industry. According to The Salt Lake Tribune, the organization’s chief physician executive sent a memo to itsContinue Reading

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Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, infamous kingpin of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, was unanimously found guilty on all 10 counts against him by a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, on Feb. 12. He was convicted of overseeing an international criminal conspiracy to import tons of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana intoContinue Reading

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Tempers are frayed and the situation is tense in America’s marijuana borderlands, the transition zone where recreational legalization and prohibition meet. That is, the drug-war mindset is raging against the dying of the right to harass nonviolent marijuana users, the end of which is on the other side of anContinue Reading

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California-based marijuana producer and distributor Flow Kana closed a $125 million funding round – which appears to be the largest private funding round for a cannabis company in the United States. The previous record was held by the $119 million raise that Acreage Holdings closed in July 2018. Flow Kana’s latest fundingContinue Reading