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Marijuana and Wildfires in California: This Is the Story

James

California needs rain desperately. Fueled by large trees in massive canyons, a combined 6,000 acres has now burnt down by 18 wildfires. The worst of them blazed through marijuana country, torching full drying rooms, budding gardens, beloved homes, and entire ways of life. The fire season could rage unhindered until the first heavy rains fall in December. An estimated five times the quantity of marijuana that California needs is growing in the state. It is the largest domestic producer of cannabis in the United States, cultivating 13.5 million pounds every…

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Landlords CAN ban you from smoking weed at home even if it’s legal in your state

James

Whether you live in Canada or the U.S.A., landlords CAN prohibit you from smoking weed on their premises. When Canada goes Green on the 17th October it becomes the first ever first-world country to legalize pot but, like America, the governments of its 10 provinces are each entitled to regulate laws surrounding marijuana. In other words, whether or not you can wind down at the end of the day with a tope very much depends on where you live. Let’s take a look. Quebec Take Quebec, for example, which has…

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The UK is the world’s biggest exporter of medical cannabis but dismisses its value as an effective treatment

James

The United Kingdom is the biggest exporter of legal marijuana but maintains its stick-in-the-mud conservative approach to decriminalizing the plant. Classified as a Class B drug, marijuana falls into the same category as amphetamines like barbiturates and speed, cathinones which include mephedrone, as well as synthetic cannabinoids. Ironically similar to the U.S. The irony of this situation is not dissimilar to the United States where recreational pot is being legalized at State-level but is still outlawed by the federal government which classifies it as a Schedule One drug, in the…

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Rescheduling weed could result in draconian control of the industry by the FDA

James

The dream of having marijuana removed as a Schedule One drug which has a classification comparable to heroin could actually end up being catastrophic for the industry. A move for the reclassification of weed to a Schedule II level could in fact result in draconian control of the weed industry by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Democrat Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer (NY) last month voiced his intentions of introducing a bill that will decriminalize pot at federal level. If successful, the bill would ensure that pot completely vanishes…

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LA County Teenagers are Being Given Bigger Choices About Using Marijuana

James

With frequent teenage marijuana users estimated at one in six, Los Angeles is spending $2 million on a social media campaign to educate youngsters about the dangers of weed. The outreach campaign is called Bigger Choices and by employing innovative initiatives like rap videos, the LA County’s Public Health Department is making direct contact with their target audience on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapshot and Twitter. The health department’s director, Barbara Ferrer, says the end-goal is to arm teenagers with enough information about cannabis-use for them to be able…

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Parenting and smoking weed is all about getting the balance right

James

Parenting and smoking weed can mix. It’s merely a matter of getting the balance right. There are a number of do’s and don’ts in this scenario if you want to be a good parent but still enjoy your after-work tope. Marijuana’s drop-out dude persona is rapidly changing as an increasing number of young professional family-orientated people turn to weed for their wind-down time. As one such mother states, people are shocked when parents use cannabis but don’t bat an eye-lash if mommy and daddy drink a glass of wine in…

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Marijuana is not a “gateway” to stronger drugs and addiction

James

Marijuana is no longer regarded as a “gateway” that will lead to the use of addictive drugs that result in about 115 deaths by overdose every day throughout America. This is just one of several salient game-changing pro-cannabis opinions voiced in a poll conducted by Quinnipiac University of 1,076 New York State voters between the ages of 18 and 65-plus. But another salient fact to emerge from the opinion poll is that most of the Republicans interviewed remain opposed to the legalization of weed, adding clout to the federal government’s…

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Legal Weed and Legal Banking Spells even more profits for investors in Canadian marijuana stock

James

Marijuana stock market investors are wringing their hands with glee as their financial portfolios continue to sky-rocket, and with Canada expecting to join the legal gravy train by mid-year their future prospects are looking even rosier Up until now, the banking world has side-stepped the huge amount of cash flow generated by the weed industry but with Canada poised to become the first-ever first world country to legalize marijuana, one of the country’s top five banks has come out in open support of this new-age phenomena. Banks and Pot Have…

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Frustration mounts as LA dithers about issuing licenses to marijuana entrepreneurs

James

Months of dithering about issuing licenses to growers and manufacturers in Los Angeles could force a large chunk of the marijuana industry underground. The irony of the present situation is that pot dealers who want to join the ranks of the legally-recognized marijuana trade are being sidelined by seemingly endless bureaucratic red-tape that is causing unreasonable delays in this new era of decriminalization. In preparation for the legalization of recreational marijuana in California at the beginning of 2018, LA approved a complicated set of regulations that has now seemingly left…

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