“I’ve been out of prison almost nine years and nobody has really recognized my entrepreneurialism. When you come from these areas where you don’t have the resources to show these skills then you’re going to look for other ways to raise money and that’s why so many young Black men sell drugs.”   – Rick Ross

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

Vermont

 30% Off Everything in Heady Vermont Store

 Top Ten Gift Guide

 Unhidden: Carrying Happy Everywhere – An Interview With Susan Snowden

 Pot, Politics, Pets and Paint: A Profile Of Artist Matthew Morris

 Project CBD Sunday: Cannabis Instead Of Polypharmacy?
 Zulkoski: Timing is everything
 Barre Town talks weed with VLCT
 A New Book Chronicles Vermont’s Biggest Cannabis Smuggling Bust

New England

 Maine

• Art meets cannabis at South Portland dispensary
• Maine wants to phase in recreational cannabis testing

 Massachusetts

• Employees of Sira Naturals voted to unionize
• Activists are planning a boycott of Revolutionary Clinic
• Recreational sales generated $400M in sales in first year
• Mayor will sign bill overhauling cannabiz approval process

 New Hampshire

• Advocates hope residents will lobby their senators for legalization

 New Jersey

• Do Voters Want Cannabis Legalized in 2020?
• Pot-Smoking ‘Weedman’ Says Rich Will Crush NJ’s Black Market
• Murphy now on board with decrim

 New York

• NY prosecutors to drop charges in mistaken hemp arrest
• Attorneys can advise legal MMJ biz  without violating ethics rules

National

 Arts/Entertainment

• Crumb’s $690,000 Weed Drawing, Keith Haring’s Bongs Line

 Banking

• Cannabiz can avoid hurdles by turning to smaller financial institutions

 Business

• Cannabis Testing Market Is Expected To Grow Rapidly By 2024
• Welcome to Big cannabis’s factory floor
• This Startup Wants to Be the PayPal of Weed
• Corporation receives Canadian license to produce infused beverages
• Charlotte’s Web announced a C$66,250,000 underwritten public offering
• Employees filed with the National Labor Board for an election to unionize

 Cannabis

• Why Cannabis’ Taboo Nature is its Downfall, and How We Can Rise Up

 CBD

• Testing positive for THC from CBD

 Culture

• America’s Best Drug Dealers Are A-List Celebrities
• Leonard Cohen’s son spoke about how his father used MMJ

 Design

• Architecture clads hotel in laser-cut façade of hemp leaf patterns

 Media

• Cannabis a Rising Star in Morningstar Mag
• Owner of High Times mag loses CFO during rocky IPO process

 Medical

• Cannabis and Schizophrenia
• Cannabis reduces headache and migraine pain by nearly half
• Why doctors know almost nothing about the health effects of cannabis

 Military/Veterans

• US military veteran and cannabis advocate pushes ‘cultivation therapy’

 Outlaws

• Two Narcotic Smugglers Charged With 1355 pounds of Weed on Vessel

 Podcasts

• increase minority representation in the hemp industry
• CBD & anti-aging
• women in the hemp industry
• Sessions: Jamie Shaw

 Politics

• Republican Rep. scoffs at Kellyanne Conway’s stance on cannabis

 Presidential Campaign

• Cory Booker Slams Biden For Opposing Legalization At Debate
• Kamala Harris Blames Weed Arrests for Mass Incarceration
• Biden Walks Back ‘Gateway Drug’ Comment After Week Of Criticism
• Booker said his mom scolded him for joking about Biden getting high 
• Klobuchar said she supports federally legalizing cannabis
• Sanders reiterated pledge to “legalize cannabis in every state in this country,”

 Religion

• Is Weed Church Church?

 Science

• Smoking Weed vs. Smoking Tobacco: What Science Says

 Sports

• Golfer spoke about his suspension for using MMJ

 Studies

• Parents’ cannabis use associated with substance use in their kids
• Men’s cannabis Use Linked to Elevated Miscarriage Risk
• Study: Neuroinflammation support on therapeutic application of a CBG–CBD
• “parental use shows increased risk of cannabis, tobacco use by offspring

 Stuff

• Ninon Choplin creates curved pipe from glass to “watch as smoke billows”

 Women

• Rep. Barbara Lee on impeachment, immigration and legalization
• Listen: A Company That Curates Cannabis For Women
• Alcove’s Allie Pisarro-Grant
• Sue and Lee, 420 Old Fat Lesbians
• 5 Facts About Blissiva, The Cannabis Company For Women
• Is There A Market For High-THC Products For Women?

States

 Alabama

• Mayor launches program for people to apply for pardons for past convictions 

 Arizona

• Is Arizona getting ready to legalize?

 California

• California Will Increase Its Cannabis Tax on Jan. 1
• Martinez Gives cannabisDispensary Permit To Son Of Retired Congressman
• Legislator wants explanation for pot-tax boost
• A Notorious Cocaine Trafficker Is Helping Black People Sell Legal Weed
• Hemp limbo challenges equipment makers

 Colorado

• Colorado Has All the Best Things to Do While High
• Warning Issued After ‘Potentially Moldy cannabis’ Distributed
• The Winners of the Cannabis Cup Colorado 2019

 Florida

• Political group ready to fight recreational cannabis
• Supreme Court Rejects Joe Redner cannabisAppeal
• Judge rejects cap on dispensaries
• Legalization Movement Continues to Gain Momentum
• End to state’s requirement that MMJ businesses be vertically integrated

 Idaho

• Alcohol-Related Car Crashes Declined After WA Legalized Cannabis

 Illinois

• Jobs in Illinois’ Recreational Cannabis Industry
• Recreational cannabis use raises public health questions
• Colleges Prepare For Legal Cannabis
• Senate majority leader leads meeting about implementation of legalization

 Indiana

• Expo to Conduct Hemp Workshop
• Senate minority leader spoke about plans to push for decriminalization

 Iowa

• Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) toured a MMJ manufacturing facility

 Kansas

• Small farmers say new hemp rules may create barrier for them

 Kentucky

• Let’s put legalization on the table for the good of Kentucky

 Louisiana

• Six veterans awarded free MMJ treatment for one year

 Michigan

• ‘Wild Wild West’ CBD industry gets local
• Don’t be a rude cannabis user: Rules to live by as legalized sales begin
• Cannabis dispensary sues township after waiting in line 9 days for a license
• Regulators have licensed three MMJ businesses to start selling recreational 

 Nebraska

• Nebraska native rolls to success with pot-themed sandwich chain

 New Mexico

• Hearings extended on MMJ rules
• Petition seeks MMJ for pets

 Oklahoma

• Certificates of compliance slowing down business renewals
• Pistol-packing, masked men tie up clerk & rob dispensary
• MMJ Program Is Exploding
• Tulsa dispensary starts clothing drive for Day Center

 Oregon

• A haunted hemp harvest
• Action rally held for Hemp and CBD community
• Oregon senators weigh in on USDA interim hemp rule
• Fields of hemp dreams turn into nightmares
• Regulators affirm authority to ban adulterants from cannabis products

 Pennsylvania

 South Carolina

 South Dakota

• Meth campaign ignores research about effective messaging, stigmatizes users
• Delegates Farm Bureau convention vote down industrial hemp resolution

 South Dakota – Tribes

• Tribes plan to grow hemp, have ‘big dreams’ for potential revenue

 Tennessee

• US more likely to legalize than Tennessee
• Hemp hanging at former drugstore is progress
• Is legalized hemp causing problems for cannabis prosecutions?

 Texas

• Industrial hemp production is awaiting finalization of rules

 Utah

• It’s time to legalize cannabis

 Virginia

• Fairfax cannabidiol sellers strive to weed out myth from science

 Washington D.C

• Absurd weed scene shows why the MORE Act just passed a vote

 Wisconsin

• Lawmakers seek to legalize cannabis amid concerns
• Doctors Underscore Cannabis Risks For Some Users As Legalization Expands
• Panel of state reps, UW professors discuss legalization

International

• Malta Enterprise, McGill University sign MOU

 Bahamas

• Cannabis, a matter of social justice
• PM Minnis Expresses Support For Decrim

 Brazil

• Supreme Court delayed a decision on decriminalizing drug possession

 Canada

• Inside the Walmart of Weed
• Cannabis use may lower use of illicit opioids
• Clients in NB show support for beloved cannabis dispensary
• From cannabis to climate change convention becomes a magnet for protests
• Québec is wrong to raise its legal cannabis age to 21
• Weed Industry Gets a Tough Lesson in Supply and Demand

 Europe

• MEP: EU framework on MMJ to give ‘peace of mind’ to patients

 Jamaica

• Ground broken for US$1 million hemp farm in Westmoreland
• Buffer zone policy being sought to protect local ganja industry

 Trinidad and Tobago

• AG: Weed decriminalisation will cripple gangs
• Do Not Use Cannabis Reform For Political Gain
• Government Introduces Cannabis Reform Bills
• Dad activist views ganja bill as a political bluff

 UK

• Hemp & CBD Expo in Birmingham

 Zimbabwe

• Emerging Hemp Cultivation Market