Happy Fall Friday, Friends!
First announcement:
DSHS taking public comment on rule banning smokable hemp manufacture – ends Oct. 5!
Contact me right away if smokables are a significant part of your business.
Oklahoma Dispensary, dispensary/grow/processor licenses, 2 acres of real estate for sale for $5M. New business making 30K/mo. See www.savoryskunk.com
- I will be speaking on marijuana legalization in Jackson, Mississippi Oct. 7 at Lucky Leaf.
- I will be speaking on employment issues in cannabis legalization virtually on Oct. 11 with a cannabis executive roundtable.
Texas is making movements. I’ll know more after next week.
My recent podcasts: https://canvasrebel.com/meet-lisa-pittman/ (general); https://cannabislaw.report/karma-koala-podcast-episode-94-monday-september-12-marguerite-arnold-amy-mcdougal-lisa-pittman-hannah-king/ (cannabis insurance coverage); Latte with a Lawyer (lots o politics): https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Avl2ilheuu7hYd8QZaMLL?si=ViHOUZF0QvmQY_OxdZk7lw&nd=1
Press (an old quote used): https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/07/texas-hemp-drought-agriculture/ (drought’s effect on Texas hemp).
I am now a founding member of the Psychedelic Bar Association.
I’ve put together a cannabis consulting business called Southern High Points: www.SouthernHighPoints.com.
I’ve started a mediation/arbitration practice: www.AnodyneADR.com
Still accepting google reviews and website testimonials
Now onto the news!
CANNABIS
Cannabinoids
DSHS taking public comment on rule banning smokable hemp manufacture – ends Oct. 5!
CBD for autism – case study: https://tinyurl.com/3skhfzhu
CBD for arthritis and joint pain: https://tinyurl.com/5eb94kyp
Cannabinoids to treat Lung cancer: https://apcz.umk.pl/JEHS/article/view/39529Studies so far have shown that smoking marijuana does not lead to increased lung cancer risk like smoking cigarettes, and that it appears to have a “protective effect” despite the fact that the smoke still has some carcinogens (though nothing like cigarettes).
Article on Texas industrial hemp farm: https://tinyurl.com/4d74uyjz
Article on drought’s effect on hemp in Texas: https://tinyurl.com/35vxb2zx
Kight on THCA: https://tinyurl.com/59a62ae4
Minnesota marijuana company sues state to be able to sell THC edibles like hemp companies: https://tinyurl.com/edre8yc5
Hemp approved for building codes for hempcrete: https://www.hempbuildmag.com/home/hempcrete-approved-for-us-residential-building-code-update
CBD for social anxiety: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772598722000551
USA Today on delta 8 side effects: https://tinyurl.com/znm5vabv
CBD for bioplastic materials for medical implants/prothesis: https://tinyurl.com/mr45d3b2
Marijuana
Texas Speaker of the House favors reduced penalties: https://tinyurl.com/2p939n4d
San Marcos efforts to vote on decriminalization: https://tinyurl.com/u7yserb6
Houston medical marijuana store front opens: https://tinyurl.com/vx5datj4
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) blocks bipartisan cannabis research bill: https://lnkd.in/eZgZdUpw.
Texas Border Patrol buys Orange breathalyzer: https://tinyurl.com/2vc8vzcr
NM has a $40M month: https://tinyurl.com/3mu49j8s
Rhode Island legalizes for adult use and bars disciplinary action for off duty cannabis use like DC, NJ & NY: https://tinyurl.com/2f95f5mp
Nevada upholds termination of employee for off duty marijuana use: https://tinyurl.com/332dj52j
Las Vegas consumption lounges opening late fall: https://tinyurl.com/3xnk2tks
Nevada judge rules marijuana can’t be on Schedule 1 of NV CSA: https://tinyurl.com/5n7mtrbz
Florida Judge suggests lawsuits are necessary to combat FL’s delay in issuing medical licenses: https://tinyurl.com/mt927zx2
Montana continues record month over month adult use sales: https://tinyurl.com/2ppaw7u5
Alabama businesses applying for licenses: https://tinyurl.com/4u83db9n
Alabama: 200 applicants in first 6 days: https://tinyurl.com/mpfrue7e
Alabama licenses close in October: https://tinyurl.com/ym9c3dsp
Alabama cities supportive in passing measures to allow dispensaries: https://tinyurl.com/2avd4faa
Mississippi holds seminar for medical marijuana patients: https://tinyurl.com/2jjfa593
Mississippi’s medical marijuana program: https://tinyurl.com/mewcddnm
Mississippi’s first cultivation: https://tinyurl.com/u7s2pdhh
Mississippi makes $6M in license fees: https://tinyurl.com/2p98mea2
Oklahoma legalization ballot initiative challenged: https://tinyurl.com/y8evv233
Oklahoma ballot challenge successful. No vote in Nov. https://tinyurl.com/msmwssab
Oklahoma frustrations with Metrc: https://tinyurl.com/28ev9uzn
Louisiana creates medical marijuana task force: https://tinyurl.com/2p8zvkar
New Orleans, current murder capital, no longer disqualifying police recruits for admitting to marijuana use: https://tinyurl.com/5a6bn5b9
High profile applicants compete for NOLA dispensary: https://tinyurl.com/yc6sfbw8
Georgia awards two medical marijuana cultivation licenses: https://tinyurl.com/59kzpd45
Colorado’s market gutted with more legal states: sales at lowest point since legalization: https://tinyurl.com/3scee4kj
Marijuana card holding doctor denied gun purchase – guns and marijuana are not allowed to go together in any state except for OK: https://tinyurl.com/bde7srf9
University of Kentucky establishes medical cannabis research center: https://lnkd.in/ekauS7d5.
Politico: ¾ Republicans oppose federal interference with state legal cannabis: https://tinyurl.com/yevx64ks
Mike Tyson having trouble rolling out his bitten ear shaped edibles (“Mike Bites”): https://tinyurl.com/ycynbxyp
Bill introduced to allow small companies to ship direct to consumers after federal legalization: https://tinyurl.com/mr3764c4
Medical marijuana helps adults with autism: https://tinyurl.com/pmsshsfh
Big MSOs owe $508,000,000 in federal taxes: https://tinyurl.com/vhedrvsh
Do pharmaceutical companies lose money when a state legalizes weed? https://tinyurl.com/2p8ykbt5
Ricky Williams’ Highsman brand: https://tinyurl.com/3syve28s
Linkedin includes 3 marijuana companies in its top 50 Startups of 2022 (spoiler: they are tech companies): https://tinyurl.com/ayd8hfys
Marijuana legalization leads to lower opioid use: https://tinyurl.com/bp86mp9a
Safe Harbor, leading marijuana banker in CO, acquired and now publicly traded: https://tinyurl.com/4rcynazn
Still nothing from Biden: https://tinyurl.com/sj4ayzvv
Free webinar on Latin American cannabis: https://tinyurl.com/5n6vybps
Politico explains why cannabis companies can’t make money: https://tinyurl.com/3emtftuh
Steve D’Angelo calls for the toppling of corporate cannabis: https://tinyurl.com/9c2v2nwh
PSYCHEDELICS
San Francisco moves to decriminalize possession of psychedelics: https://tinyurl.com/ycycm7ap
Georgia considering funding PTSD study at Emory University: https://tinyurl.com/2p97wbvf
Oregon: draft rules for psychedelics: https://tinyurl.com/ww5uamxc
Increased funding for university studies: https://tinyurl.com/3wbrwaae
CNN on ketamine: https://tinyurl.com/yff8mhby
Psychology Today on getting involved in the scene: https://tinyurl.com/yc8yv56h
Algeron receives approval for DMT stroke study: https://tinyurl.com/2s4744hm
Harvard on microdosing science: https://tinyurl.com/jhr293u7
Mushroom dispensary in Florida: https://tinyurl.com/mur2kpu6
Podcast discussing benefits and risks of psychedelics by Johns Hopkins professor: https://tinyurl.com/4t44h898
The Economist says psychedelics are coming to the medicine cabinet: https://tinyurl.com/wnypvm6e
A look inside a Vancouver psychedelics dispensary – micro dose shooters! https://tinyurl.com/h9vmbkke
American Psychiatric Association releases position statement on psychedelics and empathogenic agents: https://tinyurl.com/2p8tkdff
Study on mushrooms for anorexia: https://tinyurl.com/4nyrm8fa
Study on microdosing: https://tinyurl.com/mr2jpms2
Psychedelics for chronic pain, migraines, and phantom limb pain: https://tinyurl.com/4v38m858
The unregulated psychedelics market: https://tinyurl.com/4u58fmzp
Psychiatry and psychedelics: https://tinyurl.com/dby49tej
Transdermal patch being developed for DMT, 5-MeO-DMT and mescaline: https://tinyurl.com/499rd7mr
Legal fight with DEA for Right to Try access: https://tinyurl.com/y4t9b5x6
Right to Try law signed by Trump: https://tinyurl.com/y77sfejx
Fortune mag on development of psychedelic treatments: https://tinyurl.com/yrpzwwsc
Discussion on how psychedelics affects the brain: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02874-7
These are news stories for general information purposes only, and not legal advice.
Contact me if you want to see how any of the above affects you or your business plans.
Thanks!
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