What Jeff Sessions Could Mean For Legal Marijuana

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice to lead the Justice Department has roiled California’s emerging marijuana industry. Just as supporters of marijuana legalization were celebrating voters’ approval of the recreational use of the drug in the state, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama entered the picture as Mr. Trump’s choice for attorney general. Cannabis is illegal under […]

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Legal Pot, Hemp Transforming Agriculture

Imagine hundreds or thousands of Pueblo families using solar and wind energy to power growing areas in their yards or basements, where vegetables and other plants – including hemp – could be harvested year-round. Kelly Gelhoff and Meral Sarper do it all the time, and they predict that will be a major benefit of the […]

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Uruguay – Historical First Harvest Of Legal Marijuana

The application of the law regarding cannabis use continued with the harvest of its first legal plantation. Uruguay will start producing marijuana legally, announced in mid-June Juan Andrés Roballo, president of the National Drug Board (JND). “Soon will be ready the first harvest [of marijuana] from the awardee firms,” those that have the authorization by […]

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Where Cannabis Is Legal Around The World

We’ve recently been tracking cannabis laws around the United States, going deeper into which states have legalized recreational and medicinal use, including Washington, Colorado and Oregon. Cannabis is about to be big business in the U.S. Ackrell Capital, a San Francisco-based investment bank focused on middle-market and emerging growth companies, forecasts that the total U.S. […]

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Task Force Offers Hints Of What Legal Pot Will Look Like In Canada

Delivering on a campaign promise, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to introduce legislation next spring that will legalize the production, distribution, and possession of marijuana for recreational purposes. In the meantime, a government-appointed Task Force on Marijuana Legalization and Regulation is supposed to hammer out the details, addressing the questions posed by a discussion […]

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Marijuana Becomes Legal In Macedonia

Belgrade – Marijuana-derived medicines became legal on Monday in Macedonia, which joined over a dozen European countries that have already authorised the products for certain patients. So far 13 European Union nations have legalised marijuana-derived medicines including Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. Medicines containing less then 0.2 percent of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), […]

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