Category: Breaking News

Read his simple tweet that unsurprisingly sets off the right wingers and the jokers !

The products are valued at about C$2.9 million.

The main objective of the National Cannabis Survey is to better understand the frequency of cannabis usage in Canada and to monitor changes in behaviour as a result of the legalization of cannabis for non-medical use.

Interesting story and positive for Medmen after some of the torrid management issues they have been having in 2019. UFCW Strategic Campaign Director Jim Araby told media outlet the San José Spotlight on Thursday that the goal is to set a standard for the rest of the expanding industry.

The Global Alliance for Cannabis Commerce (GACC) will focus on legislation including, cultivation, manufacture, distribution, public safety, and taxation of medical and adult-use cannabis. Reports LA Weekly

” CEO, Leandra du Plessis, mentioned that the total investment of the cannabis project her company had proposed to inject was U$71 million, which was estimated to a E1 billion at the current exchange rate of E15 to the dollar. She further stated that an additional investment in manufacturing, encapsulation and distribution facilities would be made.”

Public consumption is back on the agenda in Alaska. It’s been an ongoing conversation for over 2 years now, so we won’t hold our breath.

MJ Biz report, “As an increasing number of states change their marijuana legislation, the FBI is seeing a public corruption threat emerge in the expanding cannabis industry,” FBI spokeswoman Mollie Halpern said on a podcast released by the FBI on Thursday.”

Leaf Data used to be MJ Freeway. But no need to panic we learn via a MJ Biz report, “The next generation of Leaf Data Systems provides what it calls a “product authentication system.” It’s got to be better than the last generation.

Mexico’s supreme court ordered the health ministry on Wednesday to issue regulation within six months on medical marijuana use, saying its failure to do so after legalization in 2017 had put rights at risk for patients, including children. Reports Euro News.

We congratulate Marijuana Moment for calling out Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) who likes to talk the talk but obviously isn’t walking the walk. CLR thinks it might be time to employ that famous Ken Kesey quote, “There are going to be times when we can’t wait for somebody. Now, you’re either on the bus or off the bus. If you’re on the bus, and you get left behind, then you’ll find it again. If you’re off the bus in the first place — then it won’t make a damn.”

NM’s “non political report” website gives some background to the politics behind the slow move to recreational and improvement of medical cannabis access in the state. Worth a read.

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Boswer is emphasizing the need for marijuana legalization and law reform with her campaign #SafeCannabisDC. Reports afro.com.

MJ Biz has the story. We’re not sure how they managed to..”Obtain seven dispensary licenses in Pennsylvania, when the cap is five” , amongst other things. If rules are flouted then….

They write, ” A program that allows cannabis laboratories to become accredited to both ASA and A2LA standards as part of a united process. This partnership creates a clearer and more direct path for cannabis laboratories to achieve the highest product safety standards.

Wirot Poonsuwan Senior Counsel and Head of Special Projects at Blumenthal Richter & Sumet in Bangkok writes for www.khaosodenglish.com, “Even though the cannabis sales licenses, word by word, do not impose any restrictions on what forms of cannabis in various stages of production a licensee can sell, the licenses are strictly issued for medical purposes. No recreational sales are envisioned. And the single form of cannabis the licensee can sell is cannabis medication authorized by the FDA.”

The Malta Independent writes, “No timeframe for the legalisation of cannabis was provided to this newspaper by the government, following questions sent to the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM).” Although read the article as this isn’t stopping Malta moving full steam ahead on Medical Cannabis.

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