“It was brown and black people who first brought hemp to this country. And then it was championed by those with HIV, those that society chooses to forget. We want to get every single cannabis prisoner out of their cells and back home to their families.”
– Steve DeAngelo

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

Vermont

Summer Farm Jam Postponed


HeadyNewEngland.com Is Now Live


Patti Bondor: Fighting Cancer And Keeping The Chickens Happy


Unhidden: No Fear, Just Joy – Kathryn Blume on WGDR


Headies Growers Cup Meet-Up August 7


Project CBD Sunday: Is CBD Toxic To The Liver?


34 cannabis plants found growing in flower beds at the Vermont Capitol
“If there’s a typical Vermont story, this is probably it.” – Police Chief Matthew Romei

Century 21 Farm and Forest Property Listings

Farm for sale in Charleston

Farm for sale in Orleans

Farm for sale in Sutton

Farm for sale in Newport City

Regional

 Connecticut

• Smoke, honking horn leads Stamford cops to 1 pound of weed
• Tobacco Farmers Consider Hemp
• Chronic pain should be a qualifying condition for MMJ
• State leaders to celebrate hemp-growing program

 Maine

• Effort Underway to Increase Access to MMJ for Veterans
• Tourist attractions include lobster, quaint towns, blueberries and now, weed

 Massachusetts

• Hemp rules ‘an ongoing process’
• Summer brings ‘rebranding’ of cannabis
• First recreational shop in Boston gets license
• Boston Globe ed board urging caution about CBD
• Regulators accepting applications for responsible vendor trainers
• First cannabiz license granted to economic empowerment program applicant

 New Hampshire 

• Governor Signs Cannabis Annulment Measure
• Law Could Mean Changes for Individuals With Past Convictions

 New Jersey

• Senator Rice Needs to Get Woke About Weed
• CANNABIS CONVENTION Atlantic City, NJ (Sept 14-15, 2019)
• Broad Employment Protections Enacted for Registered MMJ Users
• Our Son Jake’s Legacy Lives On In Expanded MMJ Program

 New York

• Tribe to study MMJ

National

 Arts/Entertainment 

• Summer Is the Time for Tokin’ Tunes
• Sacred Art with Tattooist Suni Banik

 Business

• Cannabis Sales to Hit $200 Billion in a Decade
• Cannabis CEOs Are White Men, Like the Rest of Corporate America
• Advice and warnings for starting your own cannabiz
• An untapped revenue stream for cannabis-based bakeries
• How to Expand Your Cannabiz Across State Lines
• BlackRock Inc. likely to start a cannabis-focused exchange-traded fund
• Christian Book Distributors changed to Christianbook to avoid confusion with CBD

 Cannabis

• What to Do With Disappointing Weed
• Major Roles for Minor Cannabinoids (video)
• Cannabinoid Acids: Your Complete Guide
• Breaking Down the Different Doses of Cannabis
• How Snow Leopard Became My Favorite Strain to Grow
• Sunny D is weed for cool summer nights

 CBD

• CBD: Fact and fiction
• Can CBD benefit your hair and scalp?
• That Alarming CBD Liver Damage Study Is Bunk
• CBD: Hemp or Cannabis? Look to the Source
• Storing CBD Products and Other Hemp Supplements
• CBD can protect against cardiac injuries

 Culture

• Musicians Cashing In On Cannabis
• Cannabis culture across generations
• Mary Jane to Cannabis: The ever-evolving language for weed
• Musician Flea joked about the differences between indica and sativa
• Where TIME’s Most Influential People on the Internet Stand on Cannabis

 Dispensaries

• 5 Questions To Ask Before Visiting A Dispensary

 Driving 

• Crashes on cannabis celebration day
• Study examining attitudes about driving under the influence of cannabis
• American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials rep testified that “cannabis legalization and opioid addiction may lead to more people driving while impaired.”

 Events 

• Aug 8 Webinar – Accessible Cannabis: Engaging Patients with Disabilities
• SXSW Wants You To Submit Cannabis Panel Ideas For 2020

 Fashion

• How Alkhemist wants to make denim from cannabis
• Fashion designers exploring, rediscovering potential benefits of hemp

 Federal

• Acting Homeland Security Secretary refused to directly answer a question about whether immigrant children should be separated from their families over a parent’s past marijuana possession conviction
• Congressman Files Cannabill After Leaving Republican Party
• Senate Schedules Hearing On Cannabis Business Banking Access
• DEA Plans to Grow 2 Tons of Cannabis This Year
• US Rep. Ilhan Omar Calls for Federal Legalization
• Three Republicans Stand in the Way of Federal Legalization
• As More States Legalize, DEA Chops Down Fewer Plants
• Why Congress should pass the MMJ Research Act of 2019
• FDA got 4,000+ public comments about CBD
• How tax code keeps illegal market alive and well
• FDA Speeding Up the CBD Regulation Process
• Rep. Lee ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ Reps Will Stand Down on Cannabis
• Committee hearing on cannabis policy overlooks science, med experts
• Senate Ag Committee scheduled a hearing on hemp production
• House bill prohibits feds from asking about criminal history of job applicants
• AG Barr said DOJ is “all in” on criminal justice reform
• Rep. Kevin McCarthy noted support for canna banking legislation.
• Cory Booker/Karen Bass intro legislation allowing prisoners to petition courts 
• SCOTUS Declines to Hear Challenge to Anti-Cannabis Tax Provision

 Food and Bev

• Ten Weed Edibles to Help You Keep Your Cool This Summer
• Astronaut Food Now Available as Cannabis Edible

 Growing and Making 

• How to make medible gummies at home
• Cannabis plants don’t have to fall prey to mold, powdery mildew
• How To Make Kief Edibles
• Preventing Hemp Cross-Pollination From Damaging Cannabis Crops

 Health and Wellness

• Can cannabis oil really ease the pains of working life?
• How to use MMJ to treat Migraines
• Cannabis—Cure or Cause for Headaches?
• Woman, 105, says avoiding booze, weed and nightclubs is key to long life
• Could Cannabis Help You Lose Weight?
• The Benefits of Using Cannabis for Depression

 Hemp

• Hemp plants ‘will tolerate heat’
• Hemp and “Weed”: The difference
• Hemp fiber, grain varieties bring distinct storage needs
• Got hemp? A handful of states still working on laws
• Hemp used for construction gains popularity

 History 

• Pot Cemetery

 Hypocrisy, Prevarication, and Outright Lies 

• Christian Lawmaker Fabricates Study To Deny MMJ To PTSD Survivors

 Law Enforcement

• Large city chiefs of police concerned about cannabis-associated violence
• Can police search your car for MMJ after you leave a dispensary?
• The Dos And Don’ts Of Using MMJ Legally

 Legalization

• Prez Candidate, Congresswoman To Speak At Panel On Ending Prohibition
• Legalization and the Fifth Amendment
• Three Republicans Stand in the Way of Federal Legalization
• Legalizing Led to Less Illegal Cannabis Grown on Federal Lands
• Legalization of Cannabis and Rising Social Acceptance
• Cannabis Has Virtually No Chance of Being Legalized Before 2021
• Snack, candy sales on rise in states with legalized cannabis
• Legalization gives cannabis-growing competitions the green light
• The main drug they’re seizing between ports is cannabis

 Media

• Magazine looks to serve as guide to cannabis marketplace

 Medical

• RYAH Dose Measuring Vaporizer Hits Dispensary Shelves
• How MMJ goes from plant to medicine
• Cannabis-Based Treatment for Cannabis “Addiction”

 Military/Veterans

• For Military and First Responders, Struggle for MMJ is Severe
• House bill requiring VA to study MMJ has 71 co-sponsors

 Outlaws

• Weed-Smuggling Submarine Captured by Coast Guard

 Parenting

• Cannabis use may not make parents more ‘chill’
• Pot-smoking parents are harsher with discipline

 Podcasts

• Dairy Queen Worker Fired After Moana/Marjuana Mix-Up
• ‘My 420 Tours’ Has a Trip for You
• Houston will be the center of the political universe again
• Women & Cannabis 

 Presidential Campaign   

• Kamala Harris Evolved Slowly on Legalization, She’s All About It Now

• Presidential candidate Andrew Yang signed a bong
• Sen. Michael Bennet supports descheduling cannabis and allowing banking

 Social Justice

• Making Sure Everyone Benefits And ‘Not Just A Privileged Few’
• Unheard Voices of the Social Equity Movement
• Industry Tackles Justice Reform With ‘Last Prisoner Project’
• Decriminalizing Cannabis, Decriminalizing Race
• House Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing on Cannabis & Racial Justice
• Why the legal cannabis industry is struggling with diversity and inclusion
• Does Luxury Cannabis Ignore Social Equity?

 Social Media

• The Instagram king trying to dominate UK cannabis

 Spirituality

• Religious communities consider how much faith to put in cannabis

 Sports

• NFL’s Calvin Johnson and Rob Sims Talk Cannabis

 Studies

• The Cure for Cannabis Addiction Is MMJ
• Legalization Associated With Decreased Interest In Alcohol
• Legalized recreational cannabis a substitute for alcohol, but not tobacco
• Drug overdose deaths declined for the first time since 1990
• MMJ good for spinal cord injuries
• Did 70% of veterans commit suicide with THC in their system?
• Benefits of psychedelic microdosing

 Stuff

• Current places bets on cannabis lighting in distribution deal
• Cannabis-Inspired, Limited-Edition Sunglasses
• Tongue Spray to Help You Stop Smoking Weed

 Sustainability

• Canna Cycle Aims to Reduce Waste in the World of Weed

 Terpenes

• Meet The Cannabis Terpenes: Limonene
• Six Major Medicinal Terpenes You Should Know

 Travel/Tourism

• Cannabis tourism grows

 Women

• Leadership Roles of Women in the Cannabis Industry
• How Cannabis Can Help Women Manage Pelvic Pain
• Women, Wine & Weed

States

 Alabama

• Mobile postal worker jailed after weed delivery scheme discovered
• ‘Weed and Seed’ initiative moving forward in Selma

 Arizona

• New Charge to Legalize

 Arkansas

• Democrat-Gazette ed board said MMJ was “smoke and mirrors”
• “The people of Arkansas are compassionate people so we passed MMJ but we are not interested in seeing our state go in the direction Colorado is going.” — State Sen. Bart Hester

 California

• Overnight Music Festival with Onsite Weed Sales
• Hollywood Welcomes Pop-Up Museum of Weed
• Berkeley City Council considering psychedelic decrim
• Black market for weed shows a huge threat to legal sales
• First Ever Pot Café To Open In West Hollywood
• Cannabis workload called ‘overwhelming’ by Santa Barbara leaders
• Weed Farmers Look to Mimic Wine’s Region-Specific Labels
• In Cannabis War, Civil Is the New Criminal
• Pot regulators struggling with job, audit says

 Colorado

• The ‘hemp gold rush’: Routt County businesses leading the charge
• Denver hosting a cannabis management symposium in October
• Cannabis Sales Break Another Record
• VIDEO: How Colorado legalization strengthened the black market

 Delaware

• MMJ users say they were denied jobs

 Florida

• Haze builds around law enforcement as technology catches up to policy
• These families made a fortune with pot illegally
• Court Rules MMJ Regulations are Unconstitutional
• 16-year-old charged with killing teen for over $120 in weed
• Florida House Wants Chance To Defend MMJ Law

 Georgia

• Georgia Releases Proposed Hemp Grower and Processor Rules

 Illinois

• Community colleges weighing offering cannabis training programs
• Illinois to Expunge Criminal Records for Cannabis
• Where will people be able to use cannabis?
• How Employers Might Handle Recreational Cannabis
• Former Chicago Tribune Chief Trades Media Biz for Cannabiz

 Indiana

• Southern Indiana responds to effects from cannabis-legal states
• Hemp field day to help producers learn best practices
• State is island of subjugation on MMJ

 Iowa

• Lawmakers Block Study Committee on New MMJ Bill

 Kansas

• A doctor’s note may protect CBD oil with THC for Kansans, but issue still murky

 Kentucky

• With Softening Stances on MMJ in Kentucky, Policy Forum Set for Fall

• Central Kentucky getting CBD oil production

 Louisiana

 Maryland

• Longstanding beliefs go up in smoke if MMJ provides relief
• Maryland regulators set steep fines for MMJ advertising violations.

• Baltimore state’s attorney: legalization must include justice

 Michigan

• Michigan keeps hemp farmers’ identities a secret
• 235K people could have their records expunged
• Battle Creek commissioners want recreational businesses
• Regulators released updated lists of banned chemicals

 Minnesota

• How much would recreational cannabis be worth to Minnesota?

 Mississippi

• Weed laced snacks seized at dispensary party
• Gov. Bryant spoke about how jailing people for cannabis shaped his views

 Montana 

• Coalition406 seeks cannabis legalization for Montanans 21 and over

 Nevada

• MYM Announces 2019 Planting is Complete
• Dispensary or food truck?

 New Mexico

• Hemp may one day be as New Mexican as chile
• Work group focuses on New Mexico cannabis measure
• Enrollment Up In New Mexico’s MMJ Program
• Governor’s Task Force Helps Craft Legalization Bill
• Is the New Mexico VA Hobbling Cannabis Research?
• Difficult to get cannabis incarceration data from state officials.
• MMJ patient count is up nearly 10% since the beginning of the year.

 North Carolina

• Women leading way as hemp revival sweeps North Carolina
• Sellers say CBD costs will rise if state forbids smokable flower

 North Dakota

• Revised initiative for North Dakota cannabis legalization submitted
• Plain Talk Podcast: As many as 175,000 North Dakotans could seek pardons for cannabis …

• Bismarck Tribune ed board said it wouldn’t be wise to legalize

 Ohio

• Once an illness is added to the Ohio MMJ list, can it be removed?
• Lawmakers sent a hemp bill to the desk of Gov. DeWine
• City council proposes reducing cannabis penalties

 Oklahoma

• MMJ Authority outlines upcoming program changes
• State rep seeks safety study of MMJ
• Lawmaker pushes for more studies, testing to be done on MMJ
• Legalization affecting real estate prices

 Oregon

• Ashland business unveils hemp cigarettes
• At Portland’s “Weed Prom”
• Increasing security at hemp farms
• OSU announces Global Hemp Innovation Center

 Pennsylvania

• Pennsylvania Expands List of Qualifying Conditions for MMJ
• U.S. attorney said that legalizing would be a “bad idea”

 South Dakota 

• Legislators discuss 2020 hemp legalization

 Texas

• Hemp fever takes hold as stressed Texas farmers eye new cash crop
• A&M creates team to answer growers’ questions on industrial hemp
• Most big-city prosecutors stepping back from cannabis charges
• A Group of North Texas Moms Meets Up to Talk About Cannabis

 Utah 

• Farmers and entrepreneurs compete to grow medical pot
• Utah delays awarding MMJ grower licenses
• Regulators dropping residency requirement for cultivation.

 Virgin Islands 

• Agriculture commissioner hosting an MMJ conference

 Virginia 

• Virginia’s attorney general wants legal cannabis
• How much money would legal cannabis produce for Virginia?

 Washington

• Washington hemp industry grows, but not as fast as Oregon’s
• Smoking Weed with City Council Candidates
• Regulators botched cannabis traceability system overhaul

 West Virginia

• Officials Say It Will Take Years for MMJ Sales

 Wisconsin

• Let doctors prescribe pot for pain
• Blacks arrested for pot possession at four times the rate of whites in Wisconsin

• Wisconsin State Journal editorial board is calling on lawmakers to legalize MMJ

International

  Asia

• Growing momentum for MMJ in Asia

 British Virgin Islands 

• Legalization Could Be On The Horizon

 Canada

• MMJ Users Feel ‘Elbowed Out’ By Canada’s Legalization
• Cannabis helped mother go from bedridden to active
• Canada Made Its Legal Weed Rules Too Tough
• Hemp Energy Drink Soon Available In Quebec
• Why is Big Pharma Heading to Canada for Cannabis Patents?
• 7 Cannabis-Friendly Summer Attractions
• Hawaii Five-O Theme Song Outlawed From BC Cannabis Stores
• Senate Subcommittee published a report on veterans’ MMJ access

 Canada – First Nations 

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

 Europe 

• EIHA asks members’ help in campaign backing CBD & extracts

 France 

• France to move forward with MMJ “experiment.” 
• Judge ruled a man who killed neighbor can’t be held criminally responsible because he smoked cannabis beforehand.

 Ireland

• Under a new scheme, Ireland will be ‘sowing weed instead of pulling weeds’

 Israel

• At many Israeli weddings weed is the new whiskey

 Jamaica

• Itopia Life to create a new space for cultural levity and expression 

 Latin America

• Cannabis in Latin America gets a new ‘social outlook’

 Philippines

• Government announced that the death toll in its bloody “war on drugs” has reached 5,526.

 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 

• Cabinet approved 34 MMJ licenses.

 South Africa 

• Cape Town company grows your weed and delivers it

 Thailand 

• Regulators denying they delayed approval of MMJ oil

 UK

• UK Legalizing Cannabis Supported by Near-Majority of Voters
• Britain’s top sports stars turning to cannabis to recover from injury
• North American cannabis companies look to UK for growth
• Is The UK About To Legalize Cannabis Ahead Of The US?