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Jul

Why Ex-House Speaker Wants Pot Potency Limits, "Temporary Paranoia" Labels

Amendment 139, a proposal that's seeking a spot on the November ballot, is getting attention primarily for a section that would limit the potency of marijuana products to 16 percent THC — a reduction for a huge number of currently available items.

But that's not all the measure would do. A139, which is on view below, would also put childproof-packaging regulations into the Colorado Constitution along with labeling rules that could require warnings about mood swings, impaired thinking, possible addiction and even temporary paranoia.

Wed
06
Jul

Catching Up With The UK Cannabis Reform Movement

Call it a ‘movement’, call it a ‘community’, whatever you call them, you can’t deny that activists campaigning for cannabis legalisation in the UK aren’t putting the hours in behind the scenes.

Indeed, while political turmoil bubbles on, those committed to a cause, those quite often motivated by the demands of their circumstances, in this case the need for patients to access medicinal cannabis, can’t afford to take a day off. Hence, a disparate group of activists has emerged – struggling valiantly along in the background, hoping to swing hearts and minds wherever they can.

Wed
06
Jul

California Legalization: 10 Things To Know

On November 8, voters registered in California will get a chance to end cannabis prohibition. Here’s the 10 Things You Need to Know:

1) Only registered voters in California can end cannabis prohibition. The deadline to register is October 24, 2016.

2) California legalization is called the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, and it’s going to be listed as Proposition 64.

Wed
06
Jul

Marijuana Can Be Sold at Uruguay Pharmacies, but Few Want To

Rossana Rilla could sell marijuana under Uruguay’s pioneering law that lets pharmacies distribute pot. But she says there is no way she will.

In her 28 years as a pharmacist, she has been beaten, dragged across the floor and threatened by thieves at gunpoint and with a grenade. She fears that selling marijuana would only make her store a bigger target for robbers and burglars.

“You see their faces and you can tell right away that they are not consumers who are here just to buy” marijuana, Rilla said about the “suspicious people” who have recently been coming into her Montevideo pharmacy asking if she sells pot.

Wed
06
Jul

‘Hemp Inc.’ Is the Mobile Game That Wants to Speed Up Marijuana Legalisation

Imagine a video game that allows users to grow and sell weed, interact with celebrity smokers of the stuff, and ultimately build a citywide marijuana empire. Except, don't imagine it. Because it exists, right now. It's just a little under the radar, surprisingly.

Wed
06
Jul

Families With Epileptic Kids Upset Marijuana Treatment Seized

CBSA says its agents were simply enforcing the law, as marijuana remains illegal in Canada.

Parents of children suffering from epilepsy say a recent move by Canadian border agents to seize shipments of medical marijuana oil from an American company could have a catastrophic effect on their children’s health.

The families have sent letters to the federal government pleading for the border to allow shipments of Charlotte’s Web, a type of marijuana oil that has been touted by some researchers as an effective therapy for hard-to-treat forms of epilepsy.

Wed
06
Jul

The Pot Law That Could Be 'Deal-Breaker for the Drug War'

California's Adult Use of Marijuana Act could have ramifications far beyond the state's borders.

Last week California's pot legalization initiative, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, qualified for the ballot in November, setting the stage for a vote that will have ramifications far beyond California's borders.

Wed
06
Jul

What Surprises Whoopi Goldberg the Most About Marijuana

It's a twisted hypocrisy. You can buy or sell a gun online, but it’s much tougher to buy Whoopi Goldberg's cannabis-infused menstrual products, a line of various balms, salves and edibles meant to relieve cramps.

And if you ask her — and many women — that’s bulls****.

Wed
06
Jul

Startups Get Creative With DC's Marijuana Laws

DC juice delivery service comes with a gift of cannabis.

When Washington, DC residents voted to legalize marijuana back in 2015, many stoners (while high, of course) probably imagined President Obama blowing O’s in the White House rose garden after a tough day at the office; however, due to the District’s lack of statehood, and the tempestuous relationship that exists between DC and Congress—even the President might have a hard time understanding the Chocolate City’s stance on the green.

Wed
06
Jul

Four Ways Justin Trudeau's Task Force Is Getting Legalization Wrong

The Canadian government's handling of pressing questions regarding marijuana legalization has raised a number of red flags. On June 30, federal cabinet ministers held a press conference on Parliament Hill to introduce the task force that will advise the government on regulating recreational marijuana use. During the event, Bill Blair - Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada - promised an "open and transparent engagement process" for legalizing.

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