“If reform advocates want to address the historical wrongs of the war on drugs, they have to figure out how to tackle the cultural promotion of marijuana use which goes hand in hand with the political promotion of decriminalization.”
– Nikolay Anguelov, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

 

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

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Vermont  

 Vermont Canna-Businesses Feel The Pain Of Pandemic Shutdown

 Women In Cannabis Summit Keynote: Shaleen Title on YouTube

 Mental Health Monday – 4/13/2020
 420 dinner & sesh with Magic Mann & Zenbarn Farms
 Scott Says New Guidance for Farmers Markets Is Coming on Friday 
 USDA implements immediate measures to help rural communities 
 Burlington City Arts Foundation presents BCA Artist Relief Fund
 Pregnant in the time of COVID-19
 Vermonters face swamped unemployment process
 Survey: Vermont nurses feel unsafe and unheard
 State officials: VT farmers markets must close
 Farmers markets are closed, but farmers can still sell food
 State launches COVID-19 tracker for inmates
 Governor urges use of face masks, mandate could come this week
 UVMMC has new advice for staff on COVID-19 spread
 Is VT nearing the coronavirus pandemic peak?
 How to get food assistance during the pandemic
 Local business hurt by delay in promised emergency funding
 Community Health Centers of Burlington announce outreach testing van
 Condos: Vermont will have safe and secure elections
 IRS tool to track stimulus checks to launch online this week
 Welch urges USDA Secretary Purdue to support dairy farmers
 Businesses partnering with state to address rural broadband gap

New England

 Connecticut

• Senate prez: legalization is too complicated to address this year

 Maine

• COVID-19 delays recreational rollout
• Council approves license for MMJ facility

 Massachusetts

• Lawmakers urge VA to allow docs to verbally recommend MMJ
• Judge rules Baker had legal right to close rec stores
• Cannabis Commissioner Kay Doyle to Step Down
• Bill Weld speaks out against Charlie Baker’s shutdown of recreational shops
• Boston Herald: lawsuit against shutdown of rec stores “tone-deaf”

 New Hampshire

• Regs are extending MMJ patients renewal deadlines during the pandemic

 New Jersey

• Could legal marijuana dollars be the boost the US economy needs
• Murphy Orders Jails to Release Some Prisoners to Cope with COVID-19

 New York

• Opinion: NYS Now Has Time to Get Cannabis Legalization Right
• He grows hemp, makes CBD oil, importing millions of medical masks
• Gov in regional cannabis talks with nearby states

National

 Advocacy/Activism

• Americans for Safe Access hosting free training for essential cannabis workers
• Americans Against Legalizing Making nat. registry of those who are opposing

 Arts/Entertainment

• ‘Cooked With Cannabis’ takes pot-infused cuisine to new highs
• Yes, the Tiger King really did run for governor on a ‘legalize weed’ platform

 Business

• Cash Dwindles, ‘Extinction-Level Event’ Looms
• How The Impending Recession Could Change The Cannabis Industry
• Loan Programs for Cannabis, Hemp and CBD Businesses
• How Cannabiz Can Respond to Coronavirus-Related Legal Claims

 Cannabis

• How To Smoke Weed (Or Consume In Other Forms) For The First Time
• Does cannabis make you poo?
• What to Know About Using Cannabis Right Now
• Cannabis Basics: How Long Does It Stay In Your System?

 CBD

• CBD Skin Care Market Research Report 2020
• Top 5 Legal CBD Edibles You Should Try in 2020
• Soothing CBD Gifts for an Anxious Time

 Coronavirus/COVID-19

• Mary Pryor Urges Companies To Up Their Game In Fight Against COVID-19
• Pelosi Wants Canna-Banking Access Included In Next Coronavirus Relief Bill
• Smoking With Friends Online Can Help You Get Through The Quarantine
• CEO sounding the alarm on coronavirus
• Are cannabis users more at risk for COVID-19?
• Three Reasons Cannabis Demand Is Up During The Coronavirus Pandemic
• How the coronavirus crisis is reshaping the cannabis industry for the long term
• Free weed has become a thing during COVID-19
• Tale Of Two Pot Dispensaries: Coping With COVID-19
• Smoking Weed Increases Risk Of COVID-19 Severity
• Even occasional use raises danger of difficulties
• COVID-19 Pandemic Elevates Cannabis to the Mainstream
• Cannabis and COVID-19: How a Federally Illegal Drug Continues to Exist
• Staying safe while delivering weed in the pandemic
• What takes priority in a pandemic, cannabis or toilet paper?
• Weed-friendly activities to get you through
• Virus fuels pot industry’s push for online sales, delivery

 Culture

• Does Florence Pugh Smoke Weed?
• Tom Brady Admits that He Smoked Weed in High School
• CNN anchor taking CBD for pain related to his coronavirus infection.
• Rick Steves: “People just give me marijuana.”
• SM claim: crazy pic of man taken from anti-cannabis PSA
• 2 Chainz: “What about cigarettes, cigars, heroin, crack, meth??

 Edibles

• How to find the Best Weed Gummies in a Sea of Sameness

 Education

• Oaksterdam U: cannabis legalisation, education and civil rights

 Events

• Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference Goes Virtual

 Federal

• DEA Seized More Marijuana Plants In 2019, But Arrests Fell
• Cannabis Businesses and the CARES Act Employee Retention Credit
• DEA updates publication “no deaths from overdose of have been reported.”
• Fed agency funding for research on cannabis, painkilling alternatives
• “I’m pushing to ensure industry has the ability to be eligible for relief funds”

 Finance

• Investor Optimism for Cannabis Market Remains Despite Pandemic Recession 

 Food & Bev

• Infused Beverages Discover Their Own Voice
• How to make edibles: Leafly’s guide to cooking with cannabis
• Joe Montana Hypes Up Adapt Brands’ New Hemp-Infused Coconut Water

 Growing and Making

• Cannabis Cultivation Market Research Report 2020
• How to make cannabutter in an Instant Pot

 Health and Wellness

• Why Cannabis and Yoga Is a Match Made in Nirvana
• Cannabis Withdrawal Syndrome: Is It A Real Thing?
• Using Pot to Help You Sleep? It Could Backfire

 Hemp

• Tips from farmers on growing hemp
• Hemp Could See Resurgence as America’s Best Wartime Crop
• How hemp legalization changed salaries across the industry
• Hemp Seed Market SWOT Analysis & Technological Innovation
• Hemp Fiber Market Report Disclosing Latest Trends and Advancement
• Hemp Protein Powder Market 2020
• Hemp-Based Food Market Challenges

 History

• I was in underground bakery during AIDS. Yes, it is essential medicine.
• My mother’s pot brownies got half of San Francisco high
• True Historical Smuggling Tales During Prohibition.

 Holidays

• Willie Nelson hosting virtual weed variety show on 4/20
• 10 virtual 4/20 parties from online concerts to workshops
• I used to roll my eyes at 4/20, too. Here’s what changed my mind
• The Apothecarium Dispensing MMJ On The East Coast: 4/20/2020
• Weed shops prepare for a very mellow 4/20
• Celebrate 4/20 Virtually This Year
• Tasty Selection Of Cannabis Flowers For Mother’s Day

 Labor

• Weed in the Workplace (Part 2)
• Worker Fired By Amazon For MMJ Wins Key Decision In Federal Court
• Weed in the Workplace (Conclusion)

 Law

• Cannabis Law: A Question of Federalism for Our Time

 LGBTQI+

• Creating space for queers in cannabis industry
• LGBTQ Business Owners Compete In Lucrative Cannabis Trade

 Legalization

• Why Is Legalization Not Covered in Mainstream Media?
• How COVID-19 is affecting legalization efforts across the US
• Local Government’s Guide to Successful Cannabis Regulation and Licensing

 Medical

• ‘It’s Pretty Scary’: A Day in the Life of an MMJ Delivery Guy
• Should PMS qualify for MMJ?
• How Charlotte’s Web CBD Empowered the MMJ Movement
• ‘Sound evidence base’ needed amid acceptance of cannabis for cancer

 People

• Nitin Khanna, an Indian-American Entrepreneur and CEO
• Pot Pilgrimage

 Podcasts

• The Dinner Table Podcast: Weed
• Capital Cathy: Eleanor Kuntz of LeafWorks
• Girls Growin Wild #3: Chelsea Brindle
• Bill Current on Post-Accident Drug Testing and Cannabis Legalization
• What COVID-19 Has Revealed About The Cannabis Market
• Lots Of Upside In Cannabis Industry (Podcast)
• Former Bengal talks about smoking before games, love for Cincy on podcast
• Jim Belushi Talks Weed With Fyllo’s Jeff Ragovin And Chad Bronstein

 Presidential Campaign 

• Could Sanders Convince Biden To Back Legal Cannabis? 
• Why Now Is Prime Time For Biden To Embrace Bernie’s Legalization Plan
• Biden Should Back Legalization If He Wants Young Voters’ Support
• First judge to speak out against war on drugs seeking presidential nomination

 Seniors

• The Story Behind Blue RIbbon Hemp CBD Products for Seniors

 Social Justice

• Minorities and weed charges: Not much has changed, despite decriminalization
• Socially Conscious Cannabiz Seeding This Era W/Good Deeds
• The Politics of Pot
• Companies partnering to make hand sanitizer to med professionals

 Sports

• NFL’s Draconian Marijuana Policy Goes Up in Smoke in New Labor Deal
• NFL Bows to Cannabis’ New Status

 Studies and Surveys

• Weed much more addictive than previously thought, researchers claim
• Cannabis May Ease Opioid Withdrawal Symptoms
• Benefits of Cannabis in Insomnia Treatment
• Study links marijuana prohibition and vaping illness
• Frequent cannabis users are way too high … in their estimates of cannabinoids
• “very low evidence suggesting that cannabinoids associated w/ gliomas.”
• “year trend analysis for CBD oil shows an upward trend from 2014 to 2018
• “effects of outcomes assoc. w/ alcohol, cannabis, other substances.”
• “Evidence that cannabis access may modestly reduce demand for opioids”
• Firms’ motivation; seek profit, mitigate social inequity, provide as medicine.”
• “headache rating decreased in 89.9% of the sessions,”
• “Users attributed symptom improvement during med. abortion to cannabis use.”

 Stuff

• A New Cannabis Tool That Massively Succeeds: Heir Water Pipe

 Terpenes

• Terpenes: More than Meets the Nose

 Women

• Three Black Women Who Are Thriving In The Very White Cannabis Industry
• Larisa Bolivar Wants to Remind Big Money Weed of Its Roots
• For Rachael Rapinoe, CBD Could Spell Money For Women’s Sports

States

International 

 Canada

• Don’t allow cannabis consumption lounges in Ontario
• More firing up black market joints than buying them legally
• Canadians pumping $1b into the economy by shopping while stoned

 Italy

• MMJ Sales Rise Almost 50% to New Record in 2019

 Mexico

• COVID-19 could be wake-up call for legislators to legalize 

  Nigeria

• Legalization in Nigeria: Much ado about nothing

 UK

• Masked Hero Gives Away Weed and Toilet Paper in Manchester