“I have found that the things that make me happy are positive affirmations, time for myself, cannabis, practicing faith, and helping to inspire other women looking to shift their energy and become the best versions of themselves.”
– Trish Demesmin

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

Vermont

Vermont Cannabis & Hemp Convention This Weekend at Champlain Valley Expo

Free seed giveaway for *new* HVT member signups ends today

Save The Date: HVT July 20 Summer Cannabis Celebration

The Headies: Vermont Growers Cup 2020

Bill to legalize cannabis sales is stalled until next year

Vermont retail cannabis market goes up in smoke

What’s Next for Vermont’s Ailing MMJ Dispensaries?

New Vermont program helps people in recovery get jobs

How far out can Vermont take cannabis?

UVM studies the science of cannabis

How Do I Get My Friends to Stop Mooching My Weed?

A Burlington Chef Caters Cannabis Cuisine

After Legalization, Burlington Police Search Cars Less Often

Party-goers Unsure Whether Pot Cookies Are Gluten Free

Vermont Colleges Look to Capitalize on the Cannabis Boom

The Emily Post Institute’s Lizzie Post Talks ‘Higher Etiquette’

Regional

• New Yorkers Flocking To MA to Buy Pot

 Connecticut

• Gov Signs Industrial Hemp Legislation
• Hanford to allow dispensaries
• The case against pot legalization (op-ed)
• New cannabis proposal favors poor residents for retail licenses
• Legalization Possibly Dead for Regular Session

 Maine

• Legal pot hearing sure to draw huge crowd
• Pot rules must protect kids, problem users

 Massachusetts

• Gov. Baker open to launching a social use area pilot program
• Regulators voted to approve a social consumption pilot program
• “MORE WEED, LESS GREED”
• Officials know little about expungement criteria
• FIND MA CANNABIS STORES
• Legal weed sales kick off in Amherst
• Herald ed board worried that psilocybin decrim will spread to MA
• Cannabis careers taking off across the region
• Regulators scrutinizing proposed acquisitions

 New Hampshire

• Senate committee votes to delay cannabis legalization bill to 2020
• My Turn: This is no time to legalize cannabis
• Lawmakers Advance Permitting Patients Home Grow

 New Jersey

• Dept of Health Announces MMJ Rule Changes
• NJ will relax MMJ rules as hopes for legal weed fade
• NJ cannabis legalization taking a nosedive
• Despite the doom-and-gloom, some lobbyists still hold out hope
• Legal weed is unlikely. But that doesn’t mean it will stay illegal either
• Legal weed vote clouded by Phil Murphy, Steve Sweeney tax fight
• NJ budget to include $60M from cannabis taxation
• Sweeney Wants MMJ Bill, Expungement – But No Legalization
• A ‘very happy’ day for MMJ patients

 New York

• NY lawmakers to introduce new recreational pot bill
• Gov. Cuomo Bails on Legalization
• With recreational pot unlikely, state’s MMJ program may grow
• Assembly majority leader thinks legalization likely by the end of session
• NYC Lawmakers Ban Pre-Employment Drug Testing For Cannabis
• What to know about cannabis jobs, pot college and immigrant weed workers
• Is there something between criminalization and legalization?
• Editorial: Decriminalize cannabis, don’t legalize
• Pot-smoking dad accused of causing baby boy to suffocate

National

 Animals

• CBD oil and cats

 Arts/Entertainment

• Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj covered the bloody Philippine “drug war.”
• The Best Standalone Harry Potter Chapters
• Jah Cure and Damian ‘Jr. Gong’ Marley Drops New “Cannabis” Anthem
• American Dad featured a Wonka-style cannabis factory

 Banking

• AGs press Congress on banking legislation
• Cannabis banking and the path to navigate compliance

 Business

• What It’s Like Starting a Family Business in the Cannabis Industry
• Saks Fifth Avenue is selling CBD products
• Cannabis Huge Opportunity For Transportation And Logistics
• Target, Walmart, Kroger and Safeway might sell CBD products

 Cannabis

• Alcohol vs. Legal Cannabis
• Men’s cannabis use increasing twice as fast as women’s
• What to Do When You Do Too Much
• Cannabis Advice in a Calming Atmosphere
• 3 Easy Ways To Clean Your Bong
• My Love Affair with Cannabis
• Five CBD-Dominant Cannabis Strains You’ve Got to Try

 CBD

• Can CBD Really Do All That?
• Can CBD Help With PMS?

 Culture

• Jeopardy questions about cannabis and psychedelic drugs
• Billionaire Arrested With 5000 Cannabis Plants on His Jet
• Jonathan Rhys Meyers’s Mother-in-Law Least Weird Thing On Jet
• Willie Nelson Talks About His First Time Smoking Weed
• Henry Rollins Q&A: Straight-Edge Punk Turned Cannabis Activist
• Watch Roger Daltrey Curse Out Pot-Smoking Fans
• Dictionaries adding new words related to cannabis

 Death

• THC-Blood Levels Can’t Be Determined Postmortem

 Dispensaries

• Study Debunks Dispensary Myths Around Crime & Teen Use

 Driving

• New report details trucker concerns amid new cannabis laws

 Energy

• The Cannabis Industry’s Dirty Little Secret

 Events

• Ever After Music Festival Allows Weed For First Time Ever
• Women of Cannabis conference in Detroit
• 2019 Women Grow Leadership Summit – Washington, D.C.

 Fashion

• Hempsmith keeps style sustainable

 Federal

• McConnell use of disaster aid bill to ensure hemp farms get insurance

 Food & Bev

• Luxury Cannabis Beverage Launches
• Day Dreamers Chocolates
• Easy Hemp Recipe: No Bake Hemp Energy Balls

 Growing and Making

• Legalization gives new options for indoor gardeners
• How to Get the Most Out of Cultivation
• Do Renters Have Growing Rights?

 Health and Wellness

• Weed companies jump on wellness trends
• More Spas Using CBD In Massages
• Cannabis Nurses: Emerging Specialization, Vital Resource For Seniors
• From High To Health: A New Cannabis Paradigm

 Hemp

• USDA Issues First-Ever Organic Hemp Certification
• The Future? One Word: Hemp
• HOW TO BE A HEMP ADVOCATE AND SUPPORT HEMP

 Higher Ed

• Few colleges offer cannabis curriculum

 History

• Cannabis’s Suppressed Role in WWII

 Hypocrisy, Prevarication, and Outright Lies

• Drug Enforcement Administration’s Los Angeles office tweeted, “#DEA is targeting #cannabis and you will land in federal prison.”
• Treasury Secretary said cannabis businesses should not be able to qualify for federal “opportunity zone” tax credits aimed at encouraging investments in distressed low-income communities
• Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), in a Senate floor speech, included cannabis in a list of drugs that have “flooded our streets” and are contributing to “despair.”

 Legalization

• Why Do So Many Americans Support Legalization
• 420 Celebrations Growth Marks End Of Era Of Oppression
• Legalization Efforts Perk Up With Growing Medical Backing
• Cannabis education an early casualty of legalization
• The 11th State to Legalize Recreational Pot Will Be…
• 6 Signs Legalization is Closer Than You Think
• Weed Nuns: “It is very important to legalize,” says Sister Camilla
• Expungement won’t eliminate immigration consequences of conviction

 Media

• A Survivor’s Story: Meet LA Weekly’s New Cannabis Editor
• Indigenous Cannabis and Hemp Magazine

 Medical

• Cannabis For Nausea
• Using Cannabis for MS: Seven Significant Benefits
• Medical experts divided on pot as opioid substitute
• Could Cannabis Treat and Even Prevent Diabetes?

 Military/Veterans

• Veteran MMJ Bills Shot Down
• PTSD, Veterans And Suicide: Action Needed, Cannabis May Help
• Prez Candidate Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) filed three bills on MMJ for vets

 Parenting

• Moms Say They Experience Discrimination For Weed Use
• Stop discriminating against moms for their marijuana use

 Podcasts

• What People Need to Know About CBD
• “Elton Jim” offers a new –“POT-CAST”
• MMJ vs. Gun Ownership, & the Opioid Epidemic
• MMJ and the Potential NYC Law
• Humble & Fred’s Howard Glassman
• Social Justice Weed Boston Herald Radio
• Karen Korn and Audra Sparks start a weed school
• Global Cannabis Markets About As Big As ‘a City in Connecticut’
• The Hash #18: Cannabis’ Stigma in Family Courts
• How Gov. Ducey’s Supreme Court choices affect your life
• Highly Potent Weed Has Swept The Market
• A Global Perspective Of The Cannabis Industry

 Politics

• ‘Cocaine Mitch’ Swag Buys Years More Cannabis Prohibition

 Presidential Campaign

• Where Presidential Candidate Steve Bullock Stands On Cannabis
• GOP Challenger Will Stay With Cannabis Company While Running
• Biden backs decrim
• Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA); former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) and former San Antonio, Texas Mayor Julián Castro (D) all contributed essays to a publication on ending mass incarceration—several of which mention cannabis law reform.

 Relationships

• Couple has cannabis-themed wedding

 Science

• US turns to Israeli know-how for MMJ research
• Do different cannabis strains affect you in different ways?

 Social Justice

• Justice groups calling for greater oversight of  DEA’s enforcement activities
• Undoing the Damage of the Drug War
• Legalization must include cannabis equity
• 1st Dispensary to Put Cannabis Equity Rules in Action
• Smart cannabis legislation is ‘about social justice’
• Social justice isn’t found in commercial weed

 Space

• SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made another 420 joke

 Sports

• Toronto Wolfpack Launching Line Of Cannabis Products
• How Cannabis Can High-ten Your Pilates Practice
• NBA Veteran Keyon Dooling
• Enhance Your Fitness Results with Cannabis (video)
• NFL players hope for change in cannabis policy
• CBD gaining in popularity on PGA Tour

 Studies

• Cannabis helps relieve some MS symptoms
• ‘Light Cannabis’ Linked With Drop In Pharmaceutical Sales
• Effects From Vaping Worse Than Smoking
• New pot studies are growing like weeds
• Vaping every day could double your risk of a heart attack
• How Cannabis Use Is Harmful For Pregnant Women
• Cannabis Study of Expecting Mothers Causes Social Media Controversy
• Legalization Decreases Chronic Pain, Increases Car Accidents
• 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act decreased black male college enrollment by 2.2%
• Legalization decreased illegal cultivation in OR’s national forests, but not WA
• Legalization decreased severity of injuries from domestic violence
• Doctors Remain Cautiously Optimistic About MMJ
• Cannabis boosts intimacy
• Legalization not tied to higher health care utilization

 Stuff

• Hemp products boom is still a ‘bust’ for some
• 5 Vape Tricks You Can Do With Your Weed Vape Pen

 Sustainability

• Weed Must Learn from LEED
• Sun-Grown Cannabis is Changing the Face of Sustainability

 Terpenes

• Terpenes Explained: How to Get the Most from Your Cannabis

 Travel/Tourism

• Five Fun Spots for the Cannabis Tourist
• TSA Check: ‘We’re Cool’ And We’re Not Looking For Your Weed

 Women

• Survey of cannabis use among expecting mothers
• Showing Women The Power of Pot and Rejuvenation
• Cannabis industry moms face a unique stigma
• Meet the Working Mothers of Cannabis
• Exposing Sexism & Discrimination in the Cannabis Industry
• Women to Watch: Aubrey Gann-Redmon
• Why Cannabis Works So Well for Women (video)
• Meet The ‘Blunt Blowin’ Mama’
• Rosi named a ‘Power Woman of Cannabis’
• How the Cannabis Industry Can Win Women Over
• Cannabiz Could Become America’s ‘Model Business’
• High Times ‘Women Of Weed’ Fight Reveals Magazine’s Gender Woes
• Women In Film Are Advancing Weed, But Censors And Stigma Don’t Help
• Periods, Hormones and THC
• Wise Women Wax Witty Words On Weed

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