by InfluencER | Oct 27, 2021 | Politics and Law
From an early age, Japanese society had conditioned Takayuki Miyabe to fear marijuana. But that was before his infant daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of epilepsy. Desperately scouring the internet for a cure, he came upon an unexpected savior: a...
by InfluencER | Oct 27, 2021 | Politics and Law
Leafly and similar sites will be able to resume working with Florida medical marijuana businesses to provide online ordering of the drug, under a ruling from an administrative law judge. Florida health officials this year stopped medical marijuana operators from using...
by InfluencER | Oct 27, 2021 | Politics and Law
On Wednesday, October 6, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 45 (AB-45) that “prohibit[s] restrictions on the sale of dietary supplements, food, beverages, cosmetics, or pet food that include industrial hemp or cannabinoids, extracts,...
by InfluencER | Oct 26, 2021 | Politics and Law
Washington, D.C. voters are strongly in favor of proposals to broadly decriminalize drugs and establish harm reduction centers, a new poll found. One week after activists announced an effort to pressure local lawmakers to enact the reforms, a coalition of activists...
by InfluencER | Oct 26, 2021 | Politics and Law
A Texas judge has ruled that the state’s ban on hemp products containing more than 0.3 percent delta-8 THC can remain in effect as a legal challenge moves through the process. The cannabis company Hometown Hero filed a suit against the Texas Department of State Health...
by InfluencER | Oct 26, 2021 | Politics and Law, Sales and Operations
Cannabis industry representatives told Oklahoma lawmakers during an interim study Monday that adopting standard practices used by food and drug makers could make medical marijuana cheaper and safer. They tried to sell lawmakers on process validation, a system where...
