ICYMI: Friday Roll Up
If lawmakers and the leaders of this fledgling industry who hope to profit from legalization do not support retroactive sentence relief for these pot prisoners of war, the legal cannabis industry will have neither integrity nor credibility.
– Peter Maguire, author, historian, war-crimes investigator
Welcome To The Weekly Roll Up – A Compendium of The Week’s Cannabis News
Vermont
Talking Tax & Regulate: A Deep Dive On S.54
Hemp Fest Sponsor Spotlight: Coyote River Hemp Company
Business Spotlight: Search For Cures Led to Primal Botanical
Project CBD Sunday: Comments To FDA On CBD/Cannabis
The Cannabis Catch-Up: Troubling Signs for Legal Markets?
5th Annual Oxbow Music Fest Sponsored By Elmore Mtn Therapeutics
Stowe Jazz Fest Has Cannabis Component
New England
Connecticut
- Senate said it is “critically important” for the state to legalize soon
- Fate of legalized marijuana remains hazy
- Dairy farmers don’t see hemp as their new cash cow
- Judge dismisses lawsuit from wrongly suspended officer
Maine
- Farmers Test New Market with Pick-Your-Own Hemp Fields
- Maine Cannabis Convention Oct 5-6
- Poison control calls for kids up 160% since recreational legalization
Massachusetts
- New Rec Dispensary Planned In Brookline
- Budget-Writers Face Uncertainty in Forecasting Cannabis Revenue
- Cultivate Purchases Land for $2M
- Top cannabis regulator discussed efforts to roll out legal home delivery
- Boston Globe urging lawmakers to pass legislation on impaired driving
New Jersey
- Thriving Medical Cannabis Industry Gets Some Towns’ Blessings
- New Jersey CANNABIS CONVENTION
- How Much Will NJ Really Make from Taxing Legal Weed?
- Dpt of Health hosted forum on harm reduction drug policies
New York
- Nearly everyone arrested for weed in NYC this year was black or Latinx
- Cannabis Expo Finds NY Has A Long Road Ahead for Full Legalization
- Health officials forced 15 businesses to destroy edible CBD products
Rhode Island
National
Arts/Entertainment
- Nug So Vile
- CANNABIS CORPSE Unleashes “Cylinders Of Madness”
- Netflix criticized for depicting consumption in its programming
Animals
Banking
Business
- Peak Extracts’ Superior Techniques
- Will Cannabis Industry Surpass Tech with Employment Perks?
- Nathaniel Rateliff on Why His Band is Joining the Weed Biz
- How Cannabis Is Building A More Fair And Diverse Model Of Business
- It’s high time for cannabis marketing to be recognized
- How Caliva Survived a Business-Ending Regulation
- Failure to legalize pot isn’t slowing down the ‘unstoppable cannabis train
- Pot Industry Underestimates Old-School Dealers
- Legal Sea Foods launches controversial cannabis-themed campaign
Cannabis
- Old School Lemons Live Resin Batter
- What are the benefits of full-spectrum cannabis extracts?
- The Best Cannabis Strains for Introverts
- Regulating Solvents, Microbes, and Metals in Legal Weed
- How Do We Determine a Single Serving of Cannabis?
- The Tragedy of Cannabis as a Schedule I Drug
CBD
- Differentiating the Industrial Hemp/CBD Market
- 14% of Americans Use CBD
- Bank of America closed smoke shop’s account because it sells CBD
- CBD sales in US could reach $6 billion by 2025
- CBD DICTIONARY
- 3 Ways CBD Oil Has Changed the Way We View Cannabis
Culture
Dispensaries
Economics
Events
- Here’s The Winning Pot From Hempfest’s Cannabis Cup
- Hemp-CBD Supplement Congress
- Steve White Keynote Speaker at Cannabis World
- The Karma Cup
Fashion
Federal
- FBI Worried About Corruption In The Marijuana Industry
- USDA: National THC test for hemp ‘as challenging as you think it is’
- What Is the MORE Act, and How Could It Change Cannabis Policy Forever?
- DOJ seeking to block opening of safe consumption site in Philadelphia
- The EPA reviewing applications for pesticides to be used on hemp
- Senators asking govt to investigate Border Patrol checkpoints
- ALEC Floats Banking And CBD Bills For States
- Shootings may impact plans to attach gun language to banking legislation
- President Trump: Is Legalization a Key Weapon?
- Rep. Blumenauer: Cannabis Could Be Legal Sooner If Trump Stops Tweeting
Food and Bev
Growing and Making
Health and Wellness
- Cannabis an effective mid-level analgesic medication for pain
- Cannabis makes your brain more plasticky, and that’s a good thing
- Vaping Black-Market Cannabis Oil Is Putting People Into Comas
- Cannabinoids Improve Efficiency Of Mitochondria, Remove Damaged Brain Cells
Higher Ed
- Can an MBA in MMJ help level out the legal weed business?
- University of the Sciences launches MBA in MMJ
Legalization
Medical
- No eating, no drinking, and now, no cannabis before surgery, doctors say
- Does bribing people with psychosis to give up cannabis work?
Outlaws
People
Podcasts
Presidential Campaign
- Andrew Yang Responds to High Polling in CO: ‘Must Be The Weed’
- Andrew Yang Would ‘Mass Pardon’ Federal Cannabis Offenders
- Elizabeth Warren’s Criminal Justice Plan Involves Legalization
- Warren’s plan on rights of Indian tribes includes the ability to legalize
Social Justice
- Restorative justice must begin with America’s pot POWs
- Weedmaps launches program to help social equity cannapreneurs
- Plan To Fund And Empower Those Impacted By Prohibition
- Many Remain Imprisoned For Now-Legal Pot
- Ethnic Discord in Cannabis Industry
Sports
Studies
- Synthetic cannabis users also used heroin
- Cannabis chemical for pancreatic cancer may have ‘major impact’
- Washington, Oregon should be careful with pot tax money
- Why Illicit Sales Are Up In Legal States
- Youth who use e-cigarettes 3.5x more likely to use cannabis
- Youth Use Isn’t Increasing Under Legalization
- MMJ a useful complementary therapy for children suffering from cancer
- Fat content of a meal can lead to significant increases in CBD absorption
- Recipes for edibles accessible but “dosage, serving size, effects are absent
Technology
Terpenes
Women
States
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
- San Diego Failed to Measure Eco Impacts of Dispensary Law
- First restaurant serving legal cannabis to open
- Activists filed ballot initiative to let individuals to grow 99 plants
- Unlicensed vaping products eyed in 21 lung disease cases
- What the industry thinks of gov’s performance
- CA Has the World’s Biggest Weed Market. Black Market Even Bigger.
- Department of Finance opposes allowing banks to serve cannabiz
- LA to Padlock, Barricade Properties Involved in Unlicensed Sales
Colorado
- Boulder City Council approves pot retail licensing body
- Public hearing on regulated cannabis accelerator program
- Maturing Market Demonstrates Impacts & Opportunities
- Capitalism Is Still in Effect Here
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Florida
- Feds take over cannabis prosecutions amid hemp legalization
- State attorney requiring 3g min. for misdemeanor cases
- Nearly 4 tons of weed discovered inside a shipment of jalapeños
- Small-time pot businesses won’t be prosecution targets
- Lawyer to Pay $370,000 for Telling Clients They Can Grow Cannabis
- As Florida ponders legalized pot, it’s unclear how it’s worked in other states
- MMJ industry second in the nation
Guam
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
- 5000 in MMJ program
- Regulators released list of pesticide ingredients that can be used on plants
- Ag. commish condemned for the slow implementation of MMJ program
- MMJ implementation top issue in Ag Commish race
Maryland
Michigan
- Regulators to unveil business license application
- Short’s Brewing teams up with MMJ company for infused edibles, beverages
- What we saw at Detroit’s first High Times Cannabis Cup
- Regulators issued air quality guidance for the cannabis industry
- Cannabis tax revenues may not be answer to Michigan budget woes
Minnesota
Missouri
- Ozarks Tonight: Marijuana Legalization
- Applications For MMJ Facilities Pour In At Deadline
- Columbia councilman’s company applies for MMJ facility
- Attorney will no longer pursue misdemeanor possession cases
- Group hopes to change perception of MMJ
Nevada
New Mexico
North Carolina
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
- Lawmakers push forward on allowing hemp
- Officials tell lawmakers that hemp is a ‘public safety’ issue
- Noem urged caution on industrial hemp ahead of committee meeting
- AG filed an official summary of a proposed legalization measure
Texas
Utah
- Five more dispensaries, home delivery could be up for consideration
- Special session ‘could’ loom to fix MMJ law
- Legislation to move away from state control in the works
Virginia
Washington
Washington, D.C
West Virginia
Wisconsin
International
Australia
Brazil
Canada
- Aphria Signs New Cannabis Delivery Partnership
- Canada can’t keep up with requests to study cannabis
- Quebec taking harsh line on edibles
- Nova Scotia women to challenge roadside testing laws
- Cannabis Usage Virtually Unchanged Since Legalization
Chile
Czech Republic
Europe
Ireland
Israel
Jamacia
Mexico
Namibia
New Zeland
- LSD study of use by healthy subjects is slated to begin next year
- Adults oppose legalizing cannabis, 39%-47%
Spain
Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago
Uganda
Uruguay