Yet another Native American tribe has leapt into the burgeoning cannabis trade – this time, it’s the South Dakota-based Rosebud Sioux Tribe, which plans to serve anyone 21 or older with a valid tribal medical marijuana...
https://stratcann.com/news/new-brunswick-says-it-cant-enforce-its-cannabis-laws-on-first-nations-reserves/StratCann
The new comments come following proposed changes to the province’s Cannabis Act and stand in contrast to...
The Prairie Island Indian Community (PIIC) has launched a new business venture, Island Peži (pay-zhee, meaning grass), a Native Cannabis Company. Subject to obtaining all necessary Tribal licensure and approval, Island Peži...
The village of Massena has filed lawsuits against two ‘pot shops’ operating in the village, in an effort to shut them down.
“Famous A’s” and “THC Remedies” are accused of violating village codes, and THX Remedies...
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State Panel Endorses 16 Cannabis Businesses as Social Equity Applicants
A state panel approved Tuesday the first batch of applicants seeking to open cannabis cultivation businesses in Connecticut as social...
Ganjapreneur reports
Missouri has expunged nearly 100,000 cannabis convictions as part of the state’s adult-use cannabis constitutional amendment approved last year by voters.
Missouri has expunged nearly 100,000...
Via DC’ist..
The D.C. Council on Tuesday gave unanimous final approval to a bill that largely prohibits employers from punishing, firing, or refusing to hire people who use marijuana or test positive for the drug.
The...
The Arkansa Times report
It’s hard out there for women in weed.
Just ask Annie Iselin, senior director of operations at BOLD Team in Cotton Plant, or Danielle Buntyon, a former oil and gas industry employee who started...
Green Market report write
Existing license holders under the state’s social equity program will also benefit from the amendment.
In an effort to promote diversity in Washington’s cannabis industry, Gov. Jay Inslee signed...
More than 2,500 Pennsylvanians with minor, nonviolent marijuana criminal convictions have applied for a pardon under a new program launched by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman this month.
And the deadline...
Ganjapreneur reports
In a letter to President Joe Biden (D), 17 members of Congress requested his Administration extend pardons of simple cannabis possession convictions to immigrants and reopen the immigration cases of...
The Rome Sentinel reports
Hispanic farmers and rural residents in New Mexico are concerned legislation that would allow small cannabis producers to significantly boost their plant counts lacks a provision to ensure the producers...
New Social Equity in Cannabis Technical Assistance Mentorship Program designed to help communities historically impacted by high poverty and enforcement of cannabis prohibitions
OLYMPIA, WA – In 2020, the Washington State...
Their message is simple
Cannabis is legal. 500,000 Canadians are not.Legalize us.
It’s been 4 years since cannabis legalization. And while many of us have and continue to the enjoy the benefits of legalization,...
Ganjapreneur report
The Illinois Equal Justice Foundation has awarded $1.4 million in grants to 18 organizations to help expunge cannabis-related criminal records.
Eighteen Illinois organizations have been awarded $1.4 million...
This is the best article we have seen on the topic for quite some time
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New York will establish a $200 million fund to support social equity applicants seeking adult-use cannabis business licenses, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday during her State of the State address in Albany.
The fund...
An incisive article from High Country News detailing a sheriff’s sudden interest in Environmental Crimes once illegal cannabis farms and the Hmong farmers who crop them are mentioned.. it’s also instructive to see how...
Their Statement
The U.S. Roundtable was dismayed when the Veterans Affairs’ Center for Verification and Evaluation denied verification as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business to Holistic Serendipity LLC dba...
CANNABIS CULTURE Reports….
– Across Africa, the cannabis market has become a more and more militarized scene: from Zambia´s army foray into cultivation, Zimbabwe´s army dropping the first seeds of hemp, to South Africa...
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The idea that ‘No one should be locked up for a plant’ is both a cherished belief in cannabis circles and a central argument for the legal industry’s existence.
Since its founding in 2019, Last Prisoner...
The Vermont Cannabis Control Board (CCB) began today’s meeting with some much needed and highly anticipated news, awarding the first operational cannabis license for the adult use market in Vermont. Rutland Craft Cannabis...
Trichromes write
Arizona’s Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, Arizona, or the third-largest prosecutorial agency in the country, recently revealed that 10,600 plus petitions had been filed since a new law decriminalized...
In November 2018 the law was changed to allow cannabis to be prescribed by specialist doctors for medical purposes. While the NHS and NICE have been reluctant to issue prescriptions, a private cannabis clinic industry has...
Source: The Appeal
The Truth About Marijuana and the Criminal Legal System
It’s 4/20, arguably the most notorious unofficial holiday for consumers in America after Black Friday. Denver, Colorado, hosts the Mile High...
Marijuana Moment
A first-of-its-kind taxpayer-funded marijuana PSA aired in most of New York during an NBA Finals game on Thursday, boldly addressing the racially discriminatory harms of cannabis criminalization and highlighting...
I wrote a paper on how to effectively incorporate social equity into cannabis laws and regulations. It is designed to be practical and focused on solutions. Thanks to @OSULawDEPC, this resource is available free to anyone...
Ganjapreneur reports..
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a measure by Mayor London Breed to update the city’s social equity program.
The San Francisco, California Board of Supervisors unanimously approved...
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Kristy McKinney’s career change from law enforcement to cannabis farmer involved much more than just swapping out her badge for a license to grow.
The former Birmingham police officer had to learn...
Great report from GMR cutting through the corporate bullshit propaganda and all that feelgood wellness fluff that keeps pumping out good news messages in the belief that if it is said enough it’ll be believed.
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