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The list of things cannabis can do for you, your health, and your body keeps growing like a weed. A 2023 study has found hemp extract may aid in hair regrowth for alopecia sufferers. The study followed patients with alopecia over a 6-month period, and found an average of 246% hair regrowth—with some patients achieving as much as 2000% hair regrowth. This is excellent news for sufferers of this common condition, who make up around 2% of the world’s population. Way to put a new spin on hair “growing like a weed.”How hemp helps hair lossThis isn’t the first time that…

California’s governor has approved a bill to prohibit employers from asking job applicants about prior marijuana use. Lawmakers gave final approval to the cannabis employment protections legislation last month and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed it into law on Saturday. “With cannabis being legal for adults 21+, requiring someone to disclose cannabis use may discourage good applicants from applying,” bill sponsor Sen. Steven Bradford (D) said. The new law builds on existing employment protections enacted last session that bar employers from penalizing most workers for using marijuana in compliance with state law off the job. With certain exceptions, “it is…

Tasmanian hemp crops that come in over 1.0% THC must be destroyed under a draft bill intended to update provisions in the Australian state’s hemp law. The Secretary of the state’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE) would order growers to destroy non-compliant crops. Those who fail to follow such directives would have their crops seized by the government for destruction at the cost of the grower, and could suffer fines under the measure, the Draft Industrial Hemp Amendment Bill 2023. The NRE would also have the discretion to authorize alternative action “in a case where the Secretary is…

The governor of Kentucky has announced the launch of a new government website for people to track the upcoming implementation of the state’s medical marijuana program, as well as the creation of a workgroup that will study cannabis policy developments in the state and across the country. Gov. Andy Beshear (D), who signed a medical marijuana legalization bill into law in March, held a press conference on Thursday to give an update on a series of programs and initiatives, including the status of the state’s cannabis-related work. As prospective medical marijuana patients in the state await the formal launch of…

Corporate greed isn’t the only factor which led to the prohibition of marijuana. As Jack Herer shows in this latest excerpt from The Emperor Wears No Clothes, racism, bigotry, and fear are also to blame. Since the abolition of slavery, racism and bigotry have generally had to manifest themselves in America in less blatant forms. Cannabis prohibition laws illustrate again this institutional intolerance of racial minorities and show how prejudice hides behind rhetoric and laws which seem to have an entirely different purpose. Smoking in America The first known smoking of female cannabis tops in the Western hemisphere was in…

The governor of California has vetoed a bill to legalize certain psychedelics and create a pathway to regulated access—a move that comes at a time when two states have already enacted comprehensive psychedelics policy reform and as two campaigns are working to put the issue on California’s 2024 ballot. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D)—who was one of the most prominent and earliest lawmakers to call for an end to the war on drugs as mayor of San Francisco and later push for the legalization of cannabis as lieutenant governor of California—vetoed the bill, SB 58, from Sen. Scott Wiener (D) on…

A New Hampshire commission charged with preparing legislation to legalize adult-use cannabis through a system of state-run stores heard testimony from leaders of the state’s medical marijuana program on Thursday, during a meeting that at times was marked by visible impatience and frustration. The bulk of the meeting centered on a presentation by Michael Holt, administrator of the state’s Therapeutic Cannabis Program, and Patricia Tilley, director of the state Health and Human Services Department’s Division of Public Health Services. The pair were ostensibly invited to provide input on how New Hampshire should handle medical marijuana regulation if it also legalizes…

For over the past year, Marc Rebillet has been a beacon of light in a darkened pandemic world. Armed only with a beautifully eccentric persona and a small table of electronic music equipment, Marc’s live music streams and socially distanced drive-in shows helped captivate hearts, ears and genitals at a time when most people were in their greatest need of human connection. And now, he’s returning to the main stage. With sold out live shows booked throughout the United States this fall and an upcoming European tour kicking off in February 2022, Rebillet is pumped to deliver eargasms to a…

It seems like everyone has a cannabis podcast these days, Leafly nation, but not many can say they have multi-platinum rapper and actor Xzibit and lauded cannabis educator, Tammy the Cannabis Cutie, at the helm. Even fewer can boast a name that conjures a sumptuos Italian dinner. Their new endeavor, called Lasagna Ganja, dropped its first episode yesterday, Oct. 5, recounting the last few decades of cannabis activism with a featured interview with Jerry Krecicki. Xzibit and Tammy have run in different circles—he as a consumer in the music industry and brandowner of NAPALM, and she as an educator with…

With early voting in Ohio beginning next week, the campaign behind a ballot measure to legalize marijuana released a new campaign ad on Friday in support of the policy change. Attorney General Dave Yost (R), meanwhile, published an analysis of the initiative that he said is meant to provide voters with “vital clarity and transparency” amid a campaign that has seen “inflamed and inaccurate” rhetoric. The new ad from the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, the primary backer of Issue 2, makes two main arguments: that Ohio’s existing medical marijuana law provides insufficient access to cannabis for some patients…