Welcome To The Weekly Roll Up! A Compendium of The Week’s Cannabis News

Vermont

Elmore Mountain Founder Wins $20K Startup Grant


Partner Profile: CBD Vermont

Vermont’s Lucrative Cannabis Sector Banks On a Local Credit Union

Vermont: Addison County Will Host Two Expungement Events In October

Regional

 Connecticut

• How Do The Candidates For Governor Feel About Legalization?

 Massachusetts

• National Day of Expungement to help clear convictions
• First Recreational Shops Are OKd For Leicester And Northampton
• Students’ pot use puts colleges’ funding at risk
• Mass. issues final pot sales licenses
• Loophole could help dispensary speed up sales
• It Will Be ‘Years’ Before Marijuana Cafes Open In Massachusetts
• ‘Imagine Future of Massachusetts MMJ Program’ coming Oct. 23

 New Hampshire

• NH report on legal pot to present pros, cons

 New Jersey

• MMJ should be expanded, protected
• Old Tappan Council votes unanimously against recreational
• There’s a big win for MMJ patients in the fine print of new bill
• Here’s what it’s like to have a dispensary in your town

 New York

• Legal weed wafts closer to reality
• NY medical society: Legalized marijuana is bad for public health
• Curaleaf to host MMJ seminar
• Here’s the money behind politically charged pot war

National

 Business

• Why retail is so important to cannabis beauty and wellness market
• New Cannabis Tech Boosting Industry, Providing a Better User Experience
• Pot analyst says marijuana market will be much bigger than she thought
• MassRoots’ Recently Launched Rewards Program, WeedPass

 Culture

• Facebook stops blocking cannabis search results ahead of Canadian legalization
• I’ve Come Out As Transgender To Everyone… Except My Weed Dealer
• The Evolution of Cannabis Slang
• Why is CBD on the rise for wellness products?
• What Questions Should I Be Asking at Dispensaries?
• Weed Magic Lights Up New York Comic Con
• I’m Just a Middle-Aged House Dad Addicted to Pot
• The jury is in on cannabis legalization in North America: it’s been a success.
• Women have been saying it works for 10,000 years
• Celebrity Endorsements and Cannabis
• How to Get Your Grandparents Into Weed

 Food

• The Next Big Thing Is Weed Beer

 Growing

Is Weed Really Stronger Today? 

• As cannabis market heats up, scientists race to build ‘weed biofactories’

 Politics

• Marijuana skeptics fear ‘de facto legalization’ in states
• Marijuana Advocates Frustrated With Congressional Members
• The big picture on legalization
• Are Courts Now Ruling In Favor Of Legal Weed-Using Employees?
• HeadCount is Leveraging Cannabis Policy to Get Folks to the Polls
• Trump Admin. Seeks Public Comments On Marijuana Reclassification
• Pot legalization campaigns across the US aim to throw out old convictions

 Studies/Medical

Brain-melting microscope images of weed show the actual bits which get you stoned


Cannabis Roots Are Likely Medicinal

• Hemp research gains sponsors CV Sciences, Patagonia, & Dr.Bronner’s
• How Does a Cannabis Researcher Do Her Job?
• Post 9-11 veterans group pushing Congress to allow VA research on MMJ
• Can You Get Lung Cancer From Smoking Weed?
• MMJ to Be Studied in Nursing Homes
• Weed Will Soon be Grown in Space to Study Effects of Microgravity
• Nurse Launches Cannabis Consulting Firm For Pain Sufferers
• Chief scientific officer of cannabis company faked data at the NIH
• Is THC an Effective Sleep Aid?
• Cannabis Research Efforts Progressing
• High Schoolers Growing More Tolerant Of Peers Who Use Marijuana
• How Marijuana Use Can Spark Domestic Violence
• Science Tells Us Marijuana Doesn’t Kill Cancer
• Women find sex more pleasurable when high
• How Estrogen Heightens Cannabis Sensitivity
• Support For Legalization Grew Again In 2018
• THC amounts identical in most cannabis strains

 Arizona

• Dispensaries Want More Patients, Lower Card Costs
• Tempe’s Mint Dispensary cannabis-infused kitchen in full swing

 Arkansas

• MMJ program well behind other states
• Arkansas Prepares to Announce Dispensary Licenses

 California

• Eureka! Cannabis Company Revitalizes Local Economy
• Cannabis Cup ghosted Sacramento at the last minute
• The Quest to Make California’s Weed the Champagne of Cannabis
• Cannabis Farmers Yearn for Appellations

 Colorado

• Dispensary chain rewards customers registered to vote

 Florida

• Judge chastises state over medical marijuana licenses
• Largest MMJ producer seeing ‘huge transition’ from opioids to MMJ

 Guam

• Gubernatorial candidates back homegrown MMJ bill

 Hawaii

• Cannabis dispensary extends its hours

 Idaho

• Marijuana: The latest battlefield between left and right in Idaho
• Idaho advocates for cannabis reform gather at town hall meeting
• As opinions shift, marijuana emerges as wedge issue

 Iowa

• Iowa’s failure to modernize marijuana laws is madness

 Illinois

• MMJ use up 80 percent
• Gov. Rauner Still Anti-Recreational Weed, But Willing To ‘Study Idea’

 Indiana

• Niles council to consider changes to MMJ ordinance
• Man faces drug charge for trying to buy a motorcycle with pot

 Kansas

• Democratic candidates sound off on legalization

 Michigan

Holy Moly Donut Shop busted for running a weed ring

• Pass the Weed PAC focuses on bumpy road that would follow legalization
• Polls Show Legalization Winning In Michigan, Losing In North Dakota
• Here’s what marijuana legalization proposal looks like on ballot
• Brighton may look to marijuana businesses to help fund road repairs

 Missouri

• Voters to determine fate of MMJ proposals
• Missouri lawyer, self-funding MMJ effort, landed in tax collectors’ crosshairs

 Montana – First Nations

• Blackfeet Tribal Council decriminalizes MMJ

 Nevada

• Cannabis campus to house quarter of a million marijuana plants
• Paiutes to open second marijuana dispensary with drive-thru

 Ohio

• MMJ: The birth of a new industry

 Oklahoma

• Dispensary files suit against Tulsa’s proposed MMJ regulations
• Where Oklahoma stands with implementing MMJ
• MMJ by the numbers: Current patient-to-dispensary ratio is 12:1

 Pennsylvania

• Alumnus founds company to make MMJ certification less complicated
• How Philadelphia Is Growing Into US Cannabis Research Capital
• Local state representatives not backing recreational cannabis bill
• Firefighters Are The Only City Employees Explicitly Allowed To Use MMJ
• Philly hosts conference to bolster minority participation in cannabis industry
• Golden State Gives No-Go for Booze-Cannabis Combo

 Rhode Island 

• Gov. candidate: Drug bust was politically motivated

 Texas

• Governor Greg Abbott proposes a change to marijuana laws

 Utah

• MMJ compromise shows LDS Church still controls Utah politics
• Lawmaker who originally pushed for MMJ returns to back compromise bill

 Washington

• Washington state moves to ban all marijuana gummies and hard candies

 Wisconsin

Midwest Marijuana Harvest Fest

International

 Canada

• ‘CBD is becoming kind of an ‘it’ word in cannabis’
• Canada is facing a shortage of legal pot as Oct. 17 looms
• Trudeau’s early push led to pot legalization in Canada
• OMA prez takes back comments that recreational cannabis is a ‘gateway drug’
• It is possible to have a healthy relationship with marijuana
• Prioritizing research on cannabis use among Canadian Veterans
• Many police not ready to use blood samples for drug-impaired driving charges
• The Nomad Cook brings cannabis to Canadian dinner table
• Walmart Canada Ponders Selling Cannabis-Based Products

 Canada – First Nations

• First Nations look to secure a piece of the cannabis pie

 Caribbean

• Caribbean Dispensaries: Puerto Rico’s and Jamaica’s Best Stops

 Denmark

• The changing face of medical cannabis in Denmark

 Ireland

• Cannabis grower tells tale of bullying

 Malta

• 8 Years In Malta’s Prison For Growing Weed

 Mexico

• Mexico Is Slowly Advancing Towards Cannabis Legalization

 Thailand

• What medical marijuana treats and why Thailand is right to legalise it

 Trinidad and Tobago

• Man held with two kilos of weed in Penal

  UK

• Cannabis oil available on prescription within a month