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

Vermont

Dopapod’s Rob Compa To Play Farm Jam


HVT Expands Team, Plans For Summer Farm Jam And Guide Launch


Project CBD Sunday: Do Cannabis Suppositories Work?


Who planted cannabis on the Vermont Statehouse lawn?

Farm and Wilderness Permaculture Design Certification

Soapstone Pipe Carving Workshop

Hempcrete Building Intensive – Walls 1

Hempcrete Building Intensive – Walls 2

Hempcrete Building Intensive – Roof+

Amid a new generation of prosecutors, Sarah George stands out

Pot In The Garden? Growing Cannabis One Year After Legalization

Cannabis-based CBD Grows Vogue Despite Gov’t Tests

With the hemp harvest weeks away, profits are anyone’s guess

Regional

 Connecticut

• Doctors Debate MMJ For Chronic Pain
• New Haven opens first dispensary
• Pot growers finding banks open to holding their cash
• Courtney Stands Up For MMJ Banking Opportunities

 Maine

• Rules for Recreational Cannabis
• 15 communities opt into legal pot, more expected
• Retail cannabis sales near, but may be hard to find

 Massachusetts

• Law Offers Licenses for Marginalized Populations But Few Apply
• Weed Taxes Roll Into MA
• Cannabis Control Commission August Hearings
• Prosecutor Backs Cannabis Bill Following Trip To Study Decrim In Portugal
• Can Employers Fire Workers for Off-Duty Cannabis Use?
• Store Looks to Offer an ‘Experimental’ Retail Experience
• Cannabis Baseline Health Study published

 New Hampshire 

• New MMJ Dispensary to Open in Conway

 New Jersey

• Gov. Murphy signed a bill expanding the state’s MMJ program
• Gov. won’t rule out decrim
• Cannabis forum aims to help educate community
• Cannabis Convention

 New York

• Legislature Passes Breakthrough CBD Hemp Bill
• Gov. and lawmakers blaming one another for failure to legalize
• Plan to clear criminal records for over 200K pot arrests
• Weed Dealers on Legalization: ‘I Don’t Want to Be Left in the Dark’
• Legalization Effort: What Went Wrong and Why

National

 Animals

• 53% vet students think cannabis has potential therapeutic value in animals

 Business

• Tech Breakthrough Set to Reshape Cannabis Markets
• Cannabis companies’ intellectual property is crucial
• Best Cannabis Companies To Work For—2020

 Cannabis

• High expectations: the best ways to enjoy legal weed
• Some Trends Loom Large In The Legal Cannabis Game
• Cannabis? Cannabis? Weed? Pot? Dope? What do you call that stuff?
• Budtender Basics: Who Are They And What Do They Do?
• The Promise and Problems of Cannabis

 CBD

• Hemp and CBD Oil for Athletes and Chronic Pain Sufferers
• CBD Shows Promise As Topical Antibiotic
• Where is the CBD Industry Going?
• 4% of investments in CBD held by those operating within FDA guidelines.

 Culture

• Pairing 2019’s Ongoing Apocalypse with Weed: A Guide
• How I became the weed man after buying legally in Washington, DC 
• Photoshopped image convinces Snoop he smoked weed with Cobain
• Grateful Dead Members Call On Fans To Support Cannabis Reform
• I learned the hard way how strong pot is today
• Need Etiquette Tips for Cannabis?
• Nugent opposes drug use, but he’s 100% for MMJ 
• Laughing Stock: Of Stoners and Superheroes
• Watch ‘Kimmel’ Quiz Customers in Weed Dispensary Game Show
• JAY-Z is breaking into the legal pot industry

• Courts: Legal pot clashes with zero-tolerance drug test policies
• What Canna Companies Need To Know About Peace Agreements

 Legalization

• Omar Calls For Nationwide Legalization To Ensure Social Equity
• A New Cannabis Survey Reveals the No. 1 Legalization Hurdle
• In legal states, dispensaries pushing out drug dealers
• What’s changed in states that legalized
• Where the Pro-Cannabis Movement Stands Halfway Through 2019
• Legal cannabis looks to be boosting snack sales

 Media

• Different Leaf Magazine Announces Premiere Issue

 Medical

• CBD for Cancer: Everything You Need to Know
• A Doctor’s Advice: How to Use Cannabis During Chemotherapy
• Is It Okay to Smoke Pot During Pregnancy?
• Can cannabis treat anxiety? It’s complicated
• How Medicare For All Could Dramatically Boost Access To MMJ
• Getting Physicians Caught Up on Cannabis Medicine
• Teens risk seizures, coma when they use ‘synthetic pot’

 Military/Veterans 

 Podcasts

• CPR’s New Pot Podcast Wants to Clear the Smoke
• College degrees in cannabis
• NJCPA: Tax Issues Surrounding Cannabis Legalization
• Cannabis News – CBD Expo NorthWest Interviews 
• CBD Meets Beauty, Biography of Silicon Valley
• The Challenge of Greening America’s Cannabis Industry
• Green Flower’s Cannabis Curricula

 Politics

• Congressional Dems Tout Legalization In Election Campaign Petition
• Why Members of the Right Should Embrace Legalization

 Presidential Campaign

• Joe Biden on Cannabis Legalization
• Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand launched survey about legalization.
• Sen. Bernie Sanders called Nevada’s move to legalize “not so radical today.”
• CO Gov. John Hickenlooper: Let states set their own cannabis laws.
• Sen. Kamala Harris cited support for legalization 
• Rep. Tulsi Gabbard filed legislation titled the Hemp for Victory Act 

 Relationships

• Couples who married with cannabis

 Seniors

• What Do Older Cannabis Consumers Use And Think?

 Sex

• Cannabis Gives People More Sexual Desire And Better Orgasms

 Social Justice

• Booker says deporting immigrants for a weed offense is misguided. 
• Coalition Wants Social Justice Baked Into Cannabis Legalization
• Racial Justice and the Need for Reform
• How the CBD industry is leaving women of color behind
• ACLU formed Cannabis Justice Coalition to advocate for legalization
• Cannabiz Collective honors people of color in the cannabis industry

 Spirituality

• Is Cannabis Ever Okay for Christians?

 Studies

 Sustainability

• A new way for cannabis users to go green may be misplaced
• The Challenge of Greening America’s Cannabis Industry

 Technology

• Accela Launches New Cloud-Based Cannabis Software

 Travel/Tourism

• NYT looks at the rise of cannabis tourism
• Recreational Cannabis for tourists
• Atlantic Ganja Getaways You Can’t Pass Up

 Women

• How Alison Brie Recovers From Physically Draining Jobs In Hollywood
• Here’s Why This Mother of Two Went & Got Her MMJ License
• Jill Lynn Ellsworth, Founder & CEO of Willow Industries, Inc.

States

• How Much Your State Will Spend on Recreational Cannabis in 2019

 Alaska

• Regulators plan to test pot cafes, delivery service

 Arizona

• MMJ industry gears up for ballot measure for recreational use
• Women Want to Keep Growing Into Cannabis Industry
• Peace Officer Standards does not view CBD as  illegal

 Arkansas

• Group pushes to legalize recreational and provide expungements
• MMJ industry is booming

 California

• Fed prosecutors charged cannabis production facility with various violations
• Look Inside LA’s First Legal Indoor Pot Farm
• Approved bill to create charter banks 
• Cannabis cultivator tries to block authorities with tractor

 Colorado

• 5 years after legalization, Colorado struggles to test impairment …
• Colorado grows annual cannabis sales to $1 billion as other states struggle

 Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 

• Lawmakers say they witnessed ‘cannabis success’ in US

 Delaware

• MMJ users say they were illegally denied jobs
• Governor Signs Measure Expanding Expungement Eligibility

 Florida

• A state long linked to oranges looks to a lucrative future — with hemp
• Industrial Hemp Growing In Florida First Time In Decades
• FAMU seeks to educate public about MMJ
• MMJ: court strikes down ‘oligopoly’

 Georgia

• In Macon, It’s Just A Ticket For Some Cannabis
• Clarkston Mayor who supports decrim is running for Senate
• Woman Orders ‘Moana’-Themed Birthday Cake, Gets Marijuana Design Instead
• Baker says she was fired after cake mix-up goes viral

 Guam

• Regulators released list they want public to know about the legalization law.

 Hawaii

• MMJ is legal in Hawaii. Traveling inter-island could get you in trouble
• Hawaii has decriminalized cannabis
• Gov. David Ige allowed decrim but vetoed  inter-island MMJ 

 Illinois

• Determining to limit potency of legalized pot, drug gets increased scrutiny
• Heavenly Farm Report: Hemp Takes to the Fields
• ‘Ditch weed’ still part of cannabis’s new frontier

 Indiana

• Retailers suing the state over its ban on smokable hemp.
• Indiana and cannabis prohibition

 Iowa

• AG published guidance saying any product containing CBD is illegal
• Hemp industry struggles for legitimacy
• Dems calling on Reps to create an interim study committee on MMJ

 Kansas

• Hemp Farmers Begin Planting for First Time in Decades

 Kentucky

• Hemp-themed dinner to serve as Farmington fundraiser
• Meet the 1st Kentucky farmer expected to grow hemp for this global brand.

 Maryland

• Court of Appeals upheld the manslaughter conviction of a man who sold heroin

 Michigan

• Hemp farming underway
• MMJ market could crash after recreational shops launch

 Minnesota

• Dem-Farmer-Labor party formed group: Cannabis for Economic Growth
• How much would recreational cannabis be worth to MN?

 Mississippi

• Lawmakers created a Hemp Cultivation Task Force.
• Wet climate could be tough for hemp

 Missouri

• Legal Weed

 Montana 

• Dueling recreational initiatives gear up for 2020 ballot

 Nevada

• As Las Vegas concedes on cannabis lounges, dispensaries play waiting game

 New Mexico

• Concern about the ability of employers to maintain drug-free workplaces 
• Patients want a voice in group planning for cannabis legalization
• Begin push to legalize recreational cannabis

 North Carolina

• Women leading way as hemp revival sweeps Western NC
• Hemp, marijuana fight may doom NC Farm Act

 North Dakota

• Pardon Advisory Board approved a plan to let people apply for pardons 

 Ohio

• Cannabis School Opens In Columbus To Train MMJ Workers
• Ohio medical board to again study cannabis for anxiety, autism
• Activists in more than 20 municipalities working to enact local decrim

 Oklahoma

• Education plays an important role in MMJ

 Oregon

• For hemp farmers, the future is green
• Regulators begin listening tour on issues facing the cannabis industry
• You Can Legally Smoke Weed Naked on the Patio of a Portland Sex Club
• Marijuana Surplus a Cautionary Tale for Other States

 Pennsylvania

• Lt gov office-release a report on cannabis legalization listening tour 
• What was real purpose of Lt. Gov’s listening tour?
• Senator will debate a staffer for the prohibitionist group 
• Lawmaker defends legalization of cannabis
• Legalizing could create ‘carnage’ on roads, judge predicts
• Penn State Hershey will take part in 10-year medicinal cannabis study

 Rhode Island 

• Cannabidiol State Regulations and Laws
• Gov. signed a budget bill with expansion of dispensaries

 South Carolina  

• Regulators approved a list of pesticides for use on hemp.

 South Dakota 

• Summer study ponders legal hemp
• Legislative Research Council will hold its first meeting about a hemp study 
• Lawmakers take a lesson from Kentucky’s hemp industry

 Texas

• New cannabis laws screw PTSD sufferers. Again.
• Deputies will continue arresting, citing for cannabis cases
• Lawmakers Redefined Cannabis, Causing Prosecutors Problems
• Hundreds Of Charges Dropped After Hemp Legalization
• Doña Ana County Sheriff joins legalization task force

 Utah 

• Regulators received 81 applications for MMJ cultivation licenses.
• Weed secrets: The state won’t say who bid to grow cannabis

 Washington

• Feds Can Prosecute Pair of MMJ Growers

 Wisconsin

• Rep lawmakers bordering IL say legalization won’t force them to follow
• Hemp revival: An opportunity for stressed farmers
• Police chief concerned weed legalization in IL will hurt WI

International

• Countries Where Cannabis Is Legal (or Decriminalized) – 2019 Travel Guide

 Africa, Continent Of 

• Africa’s budding cannabis market

 Asia

• Asia tiptoes toward legalization

 Australia

• Patron tackles robber with bar stool, pot plant

 Brazil

• Lawmakers held a hearing on MMJ.

 Canada

• Once-Conservative cabinet minister now sings praises of MMJ
• Alberta Government collects $30M from cannabis tax since legalization
• 1 in 4 Canadian MMJ Users Struggle to Access Cannabis
• Weed ban means no Rocky Mountain high for Calgary Stampede
• Planting of CBD-Rich Hemp Seeds Completed at the Saskatchewan Project
• Why Cannabis Pre-Rolls Are Super-Sized
• Cannabis Events In Canada: July 2019
• Legal Weed Now 80% More Expensive Than Black Market

 Canada – First Nations 

• Indigenous reaction mixed on provincial retail cannabis licences
• Ontario slammed over cannabis license lottery for First Nations

 China

• China taking measures against ‘cannabis culture’ spread from overseas
• More Young Chinese People Using Cannabis After Studying abroad 

 Colombia

• Regulators considering MMJ rules that would allow exportation to free trade
• Colombian Cannabis Is on the Rebound

 Czech Republic

• Chamber of Deputies approved a bill making MMJ 90% covered by insurance

 Denmark 

• Danish cannabis firm quarantines more products from CannTrust

 Ghana

• Legalize cannabis for exportation and not for local consumption

 Guyana

• Cabinet approved a cannabis decriminalization bill.

 Israel

• Regulators enacted new price controls on MMJ.
• Researchers Find Cannabis Therapy Reduces Fibromyalgia Pain
• College Offers Bachelor’s Degree With Major In MMJ Studies
• A Cannabis Pioneer Then and Now

 Jamaica

• Cannabis Licensing Authority director spoke at a canna conference in the UK

 Japan

• Hemp Stakeholders in Japan Launch Strategy for Industry Revival

 New Zealand 

• New Zealand regulators released draft MMJ rules.

 Philippines

• Amnesty International published a report criticizing the bloody Philippine “drug war.”

 Scotland

• New “drugs tsar” voiced support for decriminalizing drugs.

 Thailand

• Prime Minister cautioned patients to not rely solely on MMJ 

 UK

• Nurses ‘off their faces’ after grandad accidentally gives them cannabis cake
• London Backs Legalization and ‘Millions Misled Over CBD’