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

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Vermont

⭐Vermont’s Primary Election Season Heats Up – How You Can Vote and Who’s Running

⭐Licensing Update: Vermont CCB Reaches Milestone – 100+ Licenses Now Approved

⭐Senate Leadership Introduces Legislation to End Federal Cannabis Prohibition

⭐Efficiency Vermont Incentives for Cannabis Cultivators

⭐Strain Review: Wedding Cake by High Brix Cannabis

⭐Trailblazers: Snowbird Botanicals on Embracing Education, Wellness and Organic Methods

⭐PSA for Vermonters: Free Cannabis Courses 🚨📖

⭐Mixing Alcohol and Cannabis: ​​What You Should Know

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#Vermont #cannabis #news:

• Newfane Next to Weigh Allowing Retail Cannabis
• St. Albans Messenger: Meet Vermont’s latest local growers
• Tir Na Nog Edibles to go before Waitsfield DRB

Other #Vermont headlines:

⭐ VTDigger: Phil Scott names Jennifer Morrison to lead the Department of Public Safety,

• • 1st monkey pox infection confirmed in Vermont
  • VTDigger: Back on track: Vermonters celebrate return of passenger rail service to BTV
  • 7D: Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers in VT  Provide Misleading Information, Critics Charge 
  • Vermont lodging industry looks to rebound after two years of pandemic struggles
  • Globe: Will the next member of ‘The Squad’ come from Vermont? Becca Balint
  • Homelessness continues to rise in VT since pandemic, despite increased spending
  • Former opioid maker Allergan agrees to up to $2.37 billion settlement

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Regional

Connecticut

⭐Face the Facts: Where the Licensing Process for Recreational Cannabis in Conn. Stands

• Cannabis cultivation in CT could be linked to big money investors: ‘No big surprise’

Maine

• ACLU says pot store camera requirements violate Maine’s facial surveillance ban
• Recreational marijuana prices dropping as product floods the market

Massachusetts

⭐From baseball to cannabis, the transition of Big Papi

⭐Berkshire Mall sells for $8m. Pot mini-farms are planned for former Sears, Macy’s stores 

• Mass. marijuana equity advocates say federal action would ‘level the playing field’
• Massachusetts lawmakers have a lot to do in final day of legislative session
• Feds: Boston Chinatown eatery served up multimillion dollar money laundering operation

New Hampshire

⭐How Long Will NH Stay ‘an Island in New England’ Without Legal Marijuana?

New York

⭐Legalized pot is months away in New York State, but no one is sure how the market will work

• Buffalo News: Would-be NY pot sellers say it’s hard to plan when the rules still aren’t set
• The Bronx Cannabis Hub opens to help New Yorkers get licensed
• NY Regulators Put 52 Unlicensed Retailers on Blast as State Prepares for Legal Market

Rhode Island

• 12 Rhode Island Towns Opt In For Adult-Use Cannabis Ballot Referendum
• Narragansett seeks to add restrictions to public use of pot
• Warren Could Be First RI Town To Ban Smoking Cannabis In Public

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National

⭐ Senators Discuss Pot Reform At Historic Hearing Following Legalization Bill Introduction

WATCH: Decriminalizing Cannabis at the Federal Level: Necessary Steps to Address Past Harms

⭐USA TODAY: Time for change: Federal ban on cannabis use causes more harm than good

⭐Senate Committee Calls For Cannabis, Psychedelics + Hemp Reforms In Draft Spending Legislation for the 2023 Fiscal Year

Advocacy

The Last Prisoner Project tweeted that it is “*unequivocally* pro-legalization” and is “against any measure that attaches criminal penalties to cannabis-related activity (i.e prohibitions on homegrow)” shortly after it was accused of preventing a former employee from advocating for legalization.

Banking

⭐‘There is collateral damage’: Father makes emotional plea in support of cannabis banking reform

• Is Cory Booker Ready To Embrace Marijuana Banking Reform? New Comments Hint At Possible Pivot
• How Will Weed Stocks Handle a Bear Market?

Business

⭐ Politico: Inside the John Boehner Weed Lawsuit

• The ‘World’s Biggest Cannabis Scam’ JuicyFields Is Totally Unraveling
• JuicyFields’ Alleged Ponzi Scheme May Be The Biggest Scam In The Cannabis Industry
• Canadian cannabis company Tilray posts $434 million net loss for 2022

CBD & Hemp

⭐Congressional Lawmakers Hold Hearing On Hemp As Work Begins On 2023 Farm Bill

• Industry Professionals Urge Congress to Regulate CBD and Hemp-Derived Compounds in 2023 Farm Bill

Cultivation & Production

⭐Cartels are turning our national forests into a warzone

• Organic Cannabis Cultivation: How It Benefits The Environment?
• How a Cold Spring Stunted Cannabis Seedlings

Consumption & Culture

⭐What Cannabis Lounges Could Mean For The Future Of Weed Consumption

• All of the Other Herbs You Can Smoke
• Ice-T to open cannabis dispensary in Jersey City this fall
• Mesa Rapper Goes to Comic-Con to Find Marijuana Comic Books

Delta-8

⭐States look to regulate weed alternatives like delta-8 as sales explode

• How Delta-8 THC Became the Hot Semi-Legal High

Education
⭐ States Should Avoid Marijuana Stereotypes And Partner With Budtenders On Impaired Driving Education, Governors’ Group Says: “Cannabis consumers should never be stereotyped or ridiculed.”

• ‘Great step toward normalcy’: Cannabis exhibit at CA State Fair big hit with fairgoers
• Cannabis And The Classroom: Where Do Things Stand?

Labor & Unions

⭐ Booming US cannabis industry seen as fertile ground for union expansion

• Woman loses $1K to fake cannabis business employment scam
• Federal Labor Officials Field Complaints About Large Cannabis Businesses’ Resistance to Unions

Law Enforcement

⭐ Cops Want to Use CBD, But Face Legal Challenges. Here’s Why (Montpelier VT mention*)

• The DEA Backs Down, Will Not Criminalize 5 Psychedelics
• Another American Caught With Weed in Russia Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison

Legalization, Decriminalization & Politics

⭐ Bipartisan bill would create mechanism to expunge federal marijuana misdemeanors

• Federal Pot Records Would Be Expunged Under New Bipartisan Congressional Bill
• Canna Law Blog Cited by U.S. Senators in Letter to the Attorney General
• Marijuana Research Bill Required ‘Compromise’ Over Dispensary Access For Scientists To Get Senate Buy-In, House Sponsor Says

 

It’s time to expand our horizons with legislation that ends the prohibition on marijuana and provides economic and restorative justice. It’ll take all of us coming together to reckon with our past to understand the pain communities of color have felt for years.

— Sen. Cory Booker (@SenBooker) July 27, 2022

Lies, Hypocrisy and Outright Prevarication

• High-potency cannabis linked to higher risk of psychosis and addiction, study suggests
• SAM Opinion in Newsweek: Senate Marijuana Legalization Bill Falls Flat | Opinion

Media & Advertising

⭐SAFE Advertising Act could bring weed ads to TV and radio

• Meet The Two Radical Scientists Using TikTok To Make Cannabis Education Accessible
• The US Cannabis Council Announced A New Media Campaign During A Briefing On SAFE Banking For Cannabis Businesses

 

Now that cannabis is legal in most states, I don’t think radio and TV stations should be penalized for advertising safe, legal cannabis products on their programs.

That’s why I wrote a bill to allow for radio and TV stations to accept advertising for legal cannabis products. pic.twitter.com/vPjrTdHHZW

— Senator Ben Ray Luján (@SenatorLujan) July 27, 2022

Medical Cannabis 

⭐ Why Medical Cannabis Is Gaining a Foothold in War-Torn Ukraine

• Can CBD help with thyroid health?
• Cannabis Terpenes: What They Are and How They Work
• Zahra Abbas, a Michigan cannabis advocate who used it to treat her epilepsy, has died

Michigan

• Michigan’s wholesale cannabis flower prices plummet
• Oversaturation concerns grow in Michigan cannabis industry

Military & Veterans

• Michigan Grants $20M To Universities For FDA-Approved Marijuana Studies For Veterans

Podcasts

⭐10 Best Cannabis Podcasts to Listen to While Getting High

Psychedelics

⭐Majority Of Americans Support Psychedelics Research For Military Members

• ​​Netflix’s ‘How to change your mind’ pushes psychedelics into the mainstream
• With Magic Mushrooms Legal in More Places, Psychedelics Face a Mainstream Debate
• Michael Pollan: Any drug can be a “powerful healing medicine”
• AOC Finds Unlikely Ally to Back Pentagon Psychedelic Studies
• Biden Administration ‘Exploring’ Psychedelics Task Force

Social Equity

⭐How Joy Hollingsworth became a cannabis trailblazer

• Brittney Griner’s case in Russia parallels U.S. weed policies that harm Black people
• Inside Denver’s struggles to diversify its $700M marijuana

Sustainability

• Legal Cannabis And Sustainability: Plastic Waste From Packaging Becoming A Problem

Sports

• What Phoenix Mercury fans say about Brittney Griner’s absence
• Announcer Sergio Carlo explains why he uses cannabis
• Why is the NFL Spending Big Money on Medical Cannabis Research?

Studies & Surveys

⭐ Study: Legalization of Retail Cannabis Sales Not Linked to Increase in Youth Use

• Cannabis Users Less Likely to Face Complications After Spinal Fusion Surgery
• Odds of respiratory-related ED visits, hospitalizations not higher among cannabis users
• Scientists Find Psychedelic Mushroom Microdoses Can Improve Mood and Mental-Health

Women

⭐ The Weed Industry Must Reckon With Its Internalized Misogyny.

• Want To Work In Weed? The Women In Cannabis Study’s Most Compelling Findings
• How Vic Styles Is Changing the Game for Black Women in the Weed Community
• Minorities, women seeking to own N.J. weed stores `swimming uphill’ to land licenses

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International 

⭐ Switzerland Medical Cannabis Law Goes Live August 1

• Over 850 Doctors in Thailand Protest Pot Legalization
• Guam Set to Accept Adult-Use Cannabis License Applications Next Month
• Brazilian Government’s Selective Blindness to Cannabis Evidence
• Setback for Medical Cannabis Legalization in Indonesia
• Israel turning to world’s marijuana ‘trash can’ amid lack of regulations, experts say
• Zimbabwe OKs First Medicinal Cannabis Sales

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