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Curious About the Cannabis Industry? This Local Event Is for You
If you’re curious about cannabis or interested in the industry, an event happening in Westport may be for you.
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Curious About the Cannabis Industry? This Local Event is for You
If you’re curious about cannabis or interested in the industry, an event happening in Westport may be for you. It’s called CannaCurious? Marketing, Regulations and Social Equity and helps answer questions for everyone from budding entrepreneurs to people interested in learning more for their own personal use. The American Marketing Association, Southern CT Chapter is hosting the event. Erika...
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Having Cannabis Delivered to Your Home Can Soon be a Reality
NBC Connecticut’s Jane Caffrey discusses how the delivery license will work. The deadline to apply closes next Wednesday.
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Cannabis Compounds May Prevent Coronavirus Infection, Study Finds
Some of the compounds in cannabis may prevent the entry of the coronavirus into healthy human cells, according to a study published in the Journal of Nature Products.
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High-Flying Marijuana Vapes Take Hit From Health Scare
Vaping products, one of the fastest-growing segments of the legal marijuana industry, have taken a hit from consumers as public health experts scramble to determine what’s causing a mysterious and sometimes fatal lung disease among people who use e-cigarettes. The ailment has sickened at least 530 people and killed nine. Some vaped nicotine, but many reported using oil containing THC,...
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Denver Is 1st US City to Decriminalize ‘Magic Mushrooms'
Voters narrowly made Denver the first U.S. city to decriminalize psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in “magic mushrooms.” Decriminalization led by a slim 51%, according to preliminary figures on Tuesday’s election released by Denver’s Election Division. As many as 1,300 votes still remain to be counted, but that figure was not enough to swing the vote the other way, division spokesman...
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Pets Are the Hot New Cannabis Customer as Owners Use CBD to Ease Pain and Thunderstorm Anxiety
Some of the CBD industry’s biggest consumers aren’t even human. Dogs and cats are increasingly taking the non-intoxicating cannabis compound as their owners seek to provide relief to their four-legged friends for everything from anxiety to pain and seizures. While there’s scant data proving CBD works for any of these ailments, some people are swearing by it and more vets...
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FDA Weighs Legalizing Interstate Sales of Cannabis-Based CBD in Food, Drinks
The Food and Drug Administration is looking for “pathways” to legalize the sale of CBD oil and other cannabis-based compounds in food and beverages in a move that could remove one of the last remaining legal hurdles for companies hoping to sell such products across state lines. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb outlined steps the agency is considering in regulating cannabis...
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Community Raises College Fund for Girl in Viral #PermitPatty Video
Local cannabis sellers in the Bay Area have rallied behind the little girl at the center of the viral #PermitPatty video. Companies and people in the community gathered at the Pergola at Lake Merritt in Oakland Saturday to raise money for 8-year-old Jordan Rodgers’ education fund after Alison Ettel called the police on Jordan for “illegally selling water without a...
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Pesticides and Pot: What's California Smoking?
An NBC4 I-Team investigation found evidence suggesting that pesticides could be present in a lot of marijuana legally sold in California.
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Obama: Deal Offers Transparency, Reduces Iran Nuclear Capabilities
President Obama urged Congress to debate the particulars of the deal with Iran limiting its nuclear capabilities and increasing the transparency of weapons inspectors, but threatened to veto any attempts to cancel the deal entirely.
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Obama on Iran Deal: Path to Nuclear Weapon Cut Off
President Obama said the historic nuclear deal between world powers and Iran “demonstrates that American diplomacy can bring real and meaningful change” and ensures that “every pathway to a nuclear weapon is cut off.” “Today, because America negotiated from a position of strength and principle we have stopped the spread of nuclear weapons in this region,” Obama said Tuesday in...