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There’s a New Certification Program to Help You Support Social Equity Brands in Weed
Image via A new federally-recognized certification program will give cannabis consumers an easy way to determine if their weed purchases are supporting entrepreneurs from underrepresented and Drug War-impacted communities. The Original Equity Group, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, devised the Equity Trademark after the company’s members noticed that even when BIPOC cannabis equity business owners got their projects…
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New Mexico Exhales, Becoming 18th US State to Officially Legalize Adult-Use Weed
Image via National Cannabis Awareness Month, indeed — the last week has been a banner moment for cannabis legalization, with New Mexico becoming the third state in mere days to legalize the use of recreational cannabis for adults 21 years and older. It is the 18th US state to do so. “New Mexico can ‘finally exhale,’” trumpeted the state’s largest…
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Illinois Officially Makes More Tax Revenue From Weed Than Booze
Image via Illinois’ legal weed industry is now making more money for the state than its long-established booze market, according to new tax records. The Prairie State’s legal weed industry only opened its doors last January, but it has been growing exponentially ever since, even in the midst of a global pandemic and recession. Legal pot retailers started busting new…
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The Actor Who Played “Steve Urkel” Is Bringing Purple Urkle Weed to a Pot Shop Near You
Image via Actor Jaleel White, perhaps best known as Steve Urkel from Family Matters, is launching his own personal cannabis brand to celebrate the link between Purple Urkle weed and the character it is named for. White’s new brand ItsPurpl, developed in partnership with 710 Labs, will offer several variants of the popular Purple Urkle strain. To start, the company…
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San Francisco Wants to Open Safe Place to Comedown Off Drugs to Fight Overdose Epidemic
San Francisco has been faced with an epidemic of dire proportions — on top of the COVID crisis. The City by the Bay saw three times as many people die from drug overdoses as the coronavirus in 2020 — a total of two fatalities a day. On Wednesday, Mayor London Breed announced the city would move forward with a plan…
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New Jersey Supreme Court Rules Company Must Cover Employee’s Medical Marijuana Costs
The New Jersey Supreme Court just ruled that a construction company must cover all monthly medical cannabis costs for a former employee, setting a precedent that will protect employees’ access to medical pot. This ruling serves as the final word in a lengthy legal battle between M&K Construction and one of its former employees, Vincent Hager. In 2001, Hager was…
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Biden Is Allegedly Planning to Double Down on Trump’s Prohibitionist Drug Policies
Image via All across the US, states and cities are voting to legalize weed and decriminalize the use of natural psychedelics, putting an end to nearly a century of hardcore prohibition. And after decades of passing draconian drug laws, even Congress is showing some fervor for walking back the War on Drugs. Yet in spite of the growing support for…
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Kamala Harris Says Biden Is “Too Busy” to Decriminalize Weed Right Now
Image via Everyone is over the pandemic, and more than 75 percent of Americans want federal weed legalization now. But it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen as quickly as some politicians — cough, Chuck Schumer, cough — have alluded to. Why? Because Covid is still raging. In fact, Vice President Kamala Harris just said that the Biden Administration…
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Psilocybin Mushrooms Greatly Enhance Creative Thinking, New Clinical Study Confirms
The creativity-enhancing effects of psilocybin and other psychedelics are highly regarded by artists, musicians, and even the occasional CEO, but there has been little scientific evidence to support these claims — until now. Last week, the Translational Psychiatry journal published a new placebo-controlled clinical study confirming that psilocybin can indeed enhance creativity. To conduct this groundbreaking new trial, a team…
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Feds Just Awarded $100k to a Company Making Sustainable Hemp Bricks
Image via Most of the current hype about America’s legal hemp industry has focused on CBD, Delta-8-THC, and other cannabinoids, but new businesses are continuing to find creative uses for this amazing plant. Earth Merchant, a small business based in Washington state, just snagged a $100,000 grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to help fund the development of…
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