Day: March 4, 2020

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With Boston about to see the opening of its first recreational marijuana store, the mayor on Wednesday staffed the city’s new Cannabis Board. Mayor Martin J. Walsh appointed five members to the panel that will issue marijuana business licenses and advise his office on cannabis regulations and policies, The BostonContinue Reading

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Approximately 450 cannabis stores applications were filed in Ontario on March 2 – the first day Retail Store Authorization (RSA) submissions were accepted under the province’s new open-market process. The strong interest demonstrates pent-up demand for regulated recreational marijuana stores, experts say. Ontario is pivoting to an open-market store-allocation process afterContinue Reading

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There is a new effort in Sacramento, California to protect the rights of medical cannabis patients when it comes to using cannabis off the clock. The push comes in the form of AB 2355, a bill authored by Assemblymember Rob Bonta that would prevent employers from discriminating against medical cannabisContinue Reading

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Decriminalize Nature is spearheading the movement to decriminalize psychedelics for medicinal use all over the world. See where they’re gaining momentum. The post What’s next for psychedelic decriminalization? appeared first on Leafly. Read More: What’s next for psychedelic decriminalization?Continue Reading

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Despite passing a bill that promises to stabilize Montana’s haphazard medical marijuana program, a series of recently proposed changes to that bill may, paradoxically, bring the program to a screeching halt. Ever since it was first enacted in 2004, Montana’s medical marijuana program has been rife with chaos: there haveContinue Reading

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A medical marijuana dispensary applicant in Arkansas lost a legal challenge to obtain an MMJ license, which means the state can restart the permitting process. In response to Medicanna’s lawsuit contending regulators had broken Arkansas rules by awarding an MMJ license to a company that had scored lower on itsContinue Reading