“I only have one goal: activism and legalizing marijuana. It is more important than my family, as crazy as it sounds.” – Arjan Roskam

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

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Regional

 Connecticut

• New license for hemp entrepreneurs
• Follow the money in fight over Cambridge pot policy

 Massachusetts

• MA Moves Toward Allowing Weed Delivery, Cafés

 New Jersey

• What’s Next for Cannabis
• NJ’s Medical Cannabis Program Just Got a Lot Less Awful
• Quijano on Social Justice and Adult-Use Cannabis
• Stop ‘making black and brown people second-class citizens’

 New York

• Assembly speaker touted bill to expand cannabis decriminalization law
• Best Smoking Spots
• Podcast #1926: Legal Cannabis Use
• Failure to legalize weed is blessing in disguise for New York

National

 Animals

• Legal Pot Poses Growing Danger To Dogs

 Arts/Entertainment

• Musician David Draiman spoke about his support for legalizing cannabis
• Weed Nuns’ doc premieres in Humboldt County

 Business

• An avatar of toxic masculinity is starting a men’s grooming line
• What Mark Twain can teach us about the weed industry
• The weed startup that simplified the cannabis supply chain
• Tips and Warnings for Growing Your Own Cannabis Biz
• A  look at CBD companies’ efforts to game SEO.

 Cannabis

• Diary of a Strain Hunter: The Life & Times of Arjan Roskam

 CBD

• Cannabis has great medical potential, but don’t fall for the CBD scam

 Culture

• Chat with Mario Guzman

 Edibles

• 11 Advantages of CBD Edibles

 Environment

• Deep Ellum Has Its Own Cannabis and Alcohol Themed Streaming Channel
• Real Story Behind Cypress Hill Smoking Weed On ‘SNL’

 Ethics and Etiquette

• If It Is Not Your Field, It Is Not Your Weed

 Events 

• LadyJane’s Brand Camp – Boxborough, MA

 Federal

• Small cannabis firms could get SBA loans under proposed congressional bill
• Oregon, Congress take steps toward cannabis exports
• Surg Gen Jerome Adams and Ed. Sec. Betsy DeVos met to discuss concerns

Food and Bev

• What’s hot in food and drink?
• Sparkling Cannabis-Infused Elixirs

 Health and Wellness

• Cannabis for Treating Skin & Joint Conditions
• Cannabis, Diabetes & Retinopathy
• Many Turning to Recreational Cannabis for Pain Relief, Sleep Aid
• Medicare for all could ‘dramatically’ increase access to MMJ
• Could Cannabis Combat the Opioid Crisis
• Cannabis For Your Mouth: R&D, Patents, And Your Next Visit To The Dentist

 Hemp

• How good is hemp for your health?

 Higher Ed

• Designing programs to meet industry demand for educated workers

 Holidays

• Sales of cannabis products spiked over Mother’s Day, Father’s Day

 Hipocrisy, Prevarication, and Outright Lies 

• How a Bogus Anti-Weed Stat Seeped into the Mainstream

 Labor 

• Drug Testing in the Era of Cannabis Legalization

 Legalization

• Does the Legalization of Cannabis Make It Safe?

 Media

• Public TV stations collaborate on covering cannabis legalization

 Medical

• What is the Possible Impact of Medical Cannabis?
• Updates to Hospital Policies and Procedures
• Many opioid users believe cannabis also helps control pain

 Podcasts

• Green Flower Nation

 Presidential Campaign   

• Booker Vows to Extend Clemency to Nonviolent Drug Offenders
• Booker slammed Biden’s drug war record
• Hickenlooper’s Bragging Shows Reality Can Change Minds
• Harris praises Illinois for legalizing

Seniors

• Boomers Embrace MMJ but Even in Colorado, Stigma Remains

 Social Justice

• The Cannabis Equity Con
• The Cannabis Industry Must Keep Alive the Legacy of LGBT Activists
• Do We Talk About LGBTQ Cannabis Inclusion Enough?

 Spirituality

• A beginner’s guide to meditating with cannabis

 Studies

• OHSU Study Shows Patients Unclear On Cannabis Dosing
• I Got an MRI While Stoned to See What My Brain Looked Like
• Study found “cannabinoid is effective in increasing appetite in cancer patients”
• Scrutinizing the ethics of a cannabis study
• Study found whites used primarily pipes/vaporizer and blacks used blunts

 Stuff

• 5 420-Friendly Makeup Products You’ll Love If You Smoke Weed
• Do Cannabis Sublingual Strips Really Work? Yes—Here’s How

 Women

• Why Women Are Getting Shut Out of the Cannabis Industry
• Five Focused Questions With Erin Gore Founder Of Garden Society
• Brandy VanGessel and Hillary Womboldt – Founders, Awaekn Creative
• Slideshow: Women Who Mean Business honorees

States

 Arizona

• Audit says dispensaries’ kitchens not inspected

 California

• Hemp’s slow launch — experts forecast bumper crop next year
• Editorial: Strict, fair is best for medical pot applicants
• Pre-legalization convictions being cleared
• Dr. Yu-Fung Lin: The Grandmaster of Doctoral Cannabis Educators

 Colorado

• 5 Years Later, the Surprising Legacy of Legal Weed in Colorado
• Fort Collins CBD Company Has Wide Eyes for Veterans
• Reefer madness or pot paradise? The surprising legacy of Colorado
• Agriculture Director Has Big Plans for Hemp

 Delaware

• Gov. signed bill allowing expungement of convictions for cannabis
• Lawmakers Pass Pot Decriminalization for Juveniles

 Florida

• Florida’s Budding Cannabis Industry Expands With New Hemp Law

 Georgia

• MMJ, child marriage laws go into effect today

 Hawaii

• New Medical Cannabis Dispensary to Open in West Hawaii

 Idaho

• Rep Party defeated resolution to “decriminalize all forms of cannabis.”

 Illinois

• Lessons From Illinois On Cannabis Legalization
• Can cannabis profit repair the harm of the war on drugs?
• WIU professor gets grant to research wild hemp
• Board of Ed removed expulsion as punishment for cannabis use

 Indiana

• Father and son arrested after purchasing pot products in Colorado
• AG hosting conference where author Alex Berenson is the keynote

 Iowa

• Republican Lawmaker Can Nearly Guarantee Progress in 2020
• MMJ Expansion Supporters Keeping Fight Alive in Iowa
• “I do not support recreational marijuana. I don’t,” Gov. Kim Reynolds

 Kansas

• Farmers begin planting hemp
• Former Kansas U.S. Attorney running for U.S. Senate.

 Maryland

• County Exec Says Legalization Would Benefit MD
• MS in Medical Cannabis Science and Therapeutics

 Minnesota

• Alzheimer’s approved condition for MMJ

 Missouri

• Ozarks Employers Attending Legalization Forums
• Authorized MMJ growers may need to break the law
• MMJ card offers free evaluations for veterans

 Nevada

• Nevada Prohibits Rejecting Applicants Testing Positive for Cannabis

 New Mexico

• Regulators sued due to block out-of-state residents from MMJ program.
• County sheriff part of gov’s cannabis legalization group
• New Mexico governor seeks ideas for recreational pot law

 North Dakota

• New recreational cannabis ballot measure proposal unveiled

 Ohio

• Advocates push to approve MMJ for autism

 Oklahoma

• Oklahoma’s MMJ enrollment among top in US
• Basic hemp classes set for July 14-16 in Wagoner

 Oregon

• Regulators launching a statewide tour to gather input from cannabis industry 
• OHSU Study Shows Patients Unclear On Cannabis Dosing
• OSU launches largest US hemp research center

 Pennsylvania

• Philly congressman calls for federal grants to fund small cannabiz

 South Carolina

• Chief of Law Enforcement spoke about his opposition to MMJ

 Tennessee

• Tobacco out, hemp in

 Texas

• Hemp and CBD law could snuff out cannabis prosecutions
• Legal hemp creating hazy issue for law enforcement agencies
• New MMJ Law Doesn’t Cover Veterans Suffering from PTSD
• Hemp rush begins on West Texas farms

 Virginia

• Firm Wades Into World Of Cannabis Research
• New MMJ Laws Take Effect July 1
• MMJ Program Clouded By Confusion

 West Virginia

• Charleston open to letting businesses grow MMJ
• Banking issue stalls MMJ

 Wisconsin

• Vos Wants MMJ Bill
• A hemp revival spreads

International

 Australia

• 5 yr-old ‘hallucinated’ after cafe allegedly served cannabis-laced brownies
• Medicinal cannabis: The family that changed Australia’s debate

 Canada

• Regulations On Edibles Might Leave You Half Baked
• Why It’s So Hard for Small Farmers to Enter Legal Market
• Legalization has had little impact on crime
• Canadian cannabis use jumped leading up to legalization
• The Next Wave Of Canadian Cannabis
• BC has the highest use of cannabis in the country
• Canadian cannabis use is soaring

 Jamaica

• Jamaica allows MMJ, but now what?

 Jersey, Channel Islands

• Minister said MMJ cultivation will begin next year.

 Nigeria

• Ondo Governor Advocates Legal Production of Cannabis

 UK

• 63% of Londoners think the UK should legalize cannabis 
• Conservative values? They are vanishing in a cloud of cannabis smoke

 Uruguay

• Uruguay’s experiment with legalising cannabis