Day: November 15, 2023

As a Portuguese-American based company, 8000Kicks is breaking boundaries with their latest sustainable hemp fashion focused on making 100% hemp shoes and accessories for both men and women. In 2017, the CEO and co-founder of 8000Kicks, Bernardo Carreira, was living in Portugal with the inspiration to start a new project…butContinue Reading

A coalition of 20 congressional Democrats is urging Treasury Department officials to update federal guidance to prevent financial institutions from discriminating against marijuana business owners over prior cannabis-related activity that’s since been made legal at the state level. In a letter sent to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Financial CrimesContinue Reading

“The state government cannot simultaneously authorize the legal sale of a product or service, while forbidding the truthful advertising of said product.” By Steve Wilson, The Center Square A Mississippi medical marijuana dispensary owner is suing the state over its prohibition on advertising for his business and others like it.Continue Reading

President Joe Biden should smoke marijuana to better understand the country’s “awfully hypocritical” double standard that allows people to drink alcohol and work at the White House but face potential imprisonment over cannabis, says Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), a 2024 Democratic presidential candidate who’s mounting a primary challenge against theContinue Reading

A top GOP Ohio lawmaker says there’s no need to rush changes to the state’s voter-approved marijuana legalization law, despite the governor’s insistence on getting revisions enacted before possession and cultivation become legal next month. Meanwhile, another Republican legislator has already come out with a bill to change the lawContinue Reading

Legalizing medical marijuana is associated with a “lower frequency” of nonprescribed pharmaceutical opioid use, according to a study published this month in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. While the decrease was rather small—between about 0.6 percent and 1.5 percent for regular to frequent opioid use—and was concentratedContinue Reading