Author: Jeremy Wilson

[ad_1] This post focuses on recent changes to OAR 845-025-8590, which addresses when the Oregon Liquor & Cannabis Commission (“OLCC”) may cancel or suspend a marijuana business license. It continues our discussion of recent OLCC changes to the regulations governing marijuana in the State of Oregon. You can review the changes to OAR 845-025-8590 and all other rules here. The new rule applies to marijuana license cancellations under ORS 475B.256(1)(a) So what conduct falls under…

[ad_1] Cannabis is officially a billion dollar business in the state of Arizona. Grand Canyon state voters passed a measure in the 2020 vote that made recreational cannabis legal for adults 21 and older. Medical cannabis has been legal in the state since 2010. That made 2021 the first year both markets were open for business, and the results have been lucrative for Arizona. According to the state Treasury Department, medical and recreational cannabis sales…

[ad_1] America has a problem – a large huge problem. A problem that has grown at an alarming rate in recent decades and is now responsible for the deaths of over 140 Americans every day. opioid addiction. From prescription drugs to heroin and synthetic opioids, widespread abuse of prescription and non-prescription opioids has become such a problem that the Department of Health and Human Services declared it a public health crisis in 2018. While numerous…

[ad_1] In December 2018 with the passing of the Farm BillCannabis products with a permissible THC content were legalized. However, as of September 2019, we’ve all noticed that most CBD brands have started promoting and selling other products, including a novel compound called hemp Delta-8 THC. Any CBD website or dispensary you visit will definitely have a wide range of Delta-8 THC products. But shortly after the THC Delta 8 products stormed the CBD market,…

[ad_1] Could a global policy shift be the best way to kick-start research into psilocybin’s medicinal potential? A new movement for international psychedelic reform was started. A global coalition consisting of the Beckley Foundation, the Multidisciplinary Association For Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), Drug Science and Open Foundation and the agency Mind Medicine Australia launched this push last Tuesday. Psychedelics have been banned in the US and internationally for several decades. This new decade seems to herald…

[ad_1] A politician intentionally smoked cannabis on camera in an online video ad, and the nation is freaking out. Gary Chambers Jr., an aspiring Louisiana politician who finished strongly in last year’s House race, is using social media and marijuana to raise awareness for his Senate campaign. The Democratic nominee for the US Senate in Louisiana smoked a blunt (or cannabis-filled) cigar for 37 seconds during an online video advertisement on Tuesday. He spent the…

[ad_1] A study published last week Natural Products Magazine sparked a wave of headlines proclaiming that cannabis can prevent or cure COVID, like this breathless ditty from Yahoo! Finance: “So that cannabis is associated COVID Prevention, how can you invest in the windfall?” project CBD asked scientist Matt Elmes, whose PhD and postdoctoral research focused on the biochemistry of cannabinoids, to evaluate the importance of this new research, which did not involve human subjects or…

[ad_1] A brave East Kilbride boy battling severe epilepsy has promised to walk on hot coals to raise funds for his life-saving cannabis oil. Nine-year-old Cole Thomson will be at his best alongside his 12-year-old brother Dylan next month in an exciting firewalking challenge. Led by Mindshift Experiences and hosted by East Kilbride Thistle Football Club – whose players are also taking part – the aim of the fundraiser is to raise a month’s supply…

[ad_1] Happy MLK Day! If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he would almost certainly advocate ending the war on drugs. dr King never spoke publicly about drugs, or cannabis in particular: he was assassinated in 1968, two years before President Nixon signed the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) into law. But it is common knowledge that the war on drugs was and is a war on minorities and people of color. It is the…

[ad_1] “I’ve always been someone who was a minority among minorities, marginalized and also attracted to marginalized subcultures. I’ve found my family in rock ‘n’ roll, and I’ve found another family in cannabis.” Inspired by the “female expression of the most powerful plant on earth,” in her words, Tina Gordon of Moon Made Farms in Humboldt County, California, created a cannabis brand and name for itself. But it wasn’t always like that. “I’ve lived in…