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“All caps are O.U.T., Out.” By Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix Over the past month, hemp entrepreneurs have traveled to the state Capitol to advocate against a proposal to regulate hemp-derived products that could potentially hurt the hemp industry. But Monday, many of those same professionals were cheering after the sponsor of the latest version of the bill removed any reference to limiting the THC dosage of those hemp-derived products. THC is the compound in the cannabis plant that can get you high. In a committee meeting Monday, Manatee County House Republican Will Robinson Jr. said: “All caps are O.U.T., Out.”…

Reps. Dave Joyce (R-OH) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have reintroduced a bipartisan bill to encourage state and local governments to expunge marijuana records in their jurisdictions. The lawmakers filed the Harnessing Opportunities by Pursuing Expungement (HOPE) Act on Tuesday, describing it as a necessary and bipartisan reform that would support ongoing clemency efforts. The bill would incentivize states to provide relief to people with non-violent cannabis convictions through federal grants. The Justice Department would run the State Expungement Opportunity Grant Program, which would help cover the administrative costs of identifying and clearing eligible cases. It proposes to appropriate $2 million…

A Republican congressional committee chairman is demanding that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) turn over documents relating to the agency’s decision not to regulate CBD products. Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chair of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, sent a letter to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf on Monday, announcing an investigation into the agency’s decision and criticizing the “insufficient rationale for inaction” on CBD regulations. FDA said in January that, after years of review since hemp and its derivatives like CBD were legalized under the 2018 Farm Bill, it determined that there is not a regulatory pathway in place…

We’re delighted to announce that Astrasana will be joining us as a Official Medical Cannabis Partner of Cannabis Europa London, 2023. Astrasana is an international company headquartered in Switzerland. It distributes its products through six subsidiaries located in the Czech Republic, Germany, United Kingdom, and Japan. The team consists of experts in the fields of pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and cannabis. Astrasana offers customers direct access through their own pharmacies which specialise in medical cannabis in Switzerland, which enables them to gain a unique understanding of patients’ needs.  Astrasana comprises a network of companies with shareholdings, exclusive purchasing agreements and its own…

We’re excited to announce that Brains Bio will be joining us as the official API Sponsor of Cannabis Europa London, 2023. With a distinctive portfolio of licences and registrations, Brains Bio, a leading producer of natural and pure active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) is strategically positioned to benefit from the complex regulatory environment, securing its first-mover and product quality edge. Within the rapidly expanding cannabis industry, Brains Bio is diversified throughout the pharmaceutical, medical, and nutraceutical sectors, creating a strong and distinctive value to the industry. On becoming the Official API Sponsor of Cannabis Europa London 2023, a spokesperson for Brains…

NWA may have mentioned something about not getting high on your own supply in the song Dopeman, but when you’re the chief creative officer (CCO) of Red Light Holland, a brand of magic truffles, all late ’80s rap song advice goes out the window.  Red Light Holland is an Ontario, Canada-based psilocybin truffle company that produces and sells magic truffles on the Dutch market. While the Netherlands banned the sale of hallucinogenic mushrooms in 2007, many smartshops still sell magic truffles. Both contain the active psychedelic component, psilocybin, but grow differently. Magic truffles grow underground, and mushrooms grow above ground. …

Marijuana icon Snoop Dogg is applauding the National Basketball Association (NBA) over reports that it plans to drop cannabis like it’s hot from the league’s banned substances list for players. The rapper weighed in on the policy change during an appearance on EPSN’s “Stephen A’s World” last week. He said that he supported the reform based on the “medical side of it, the health benefits and how it could actually help ease the opioids and all the pills that they’ve been given and the injections.” The man @SnoopDogg preaching about how the NBA no longer testing for WEED can be…

Contrary to what his nightmarish films would have you believe, David Lynch – director of such classics as Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks – is actually a pretty chill guy, something Lynch himself credits to, of all things, transcendental meditation.  “When I first heard about meditation, I had zero interest in it,” he says in his autobiography/self-help guide Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, expressing a sentiment that many chronically agitated, skeptical people can relate to. “It sounded like a waste of time.”  This changed when he encountered a phrase frequently associated with meditation: “true…

“Public health and public safety demand that the federal government regulate the cannabis market.” By Francis Creighton, Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America In the United States, we have an amazing variety of choices in our beverage alcohol marketplace—and every choice a consumer makes can be made with confidence knowing that the beverage they are about to consume is safe, free of illicit or dangerous ingredients and the proof is exact. More than 50 percent of the U.S. population lives in a legal adult-use cannabis state, yet these same regulations and testing standards that keep American beverage alcohol consumers safe…

“By taking away this tool, we risk losing an important incentive for defendants to get the help they need.” By Austin Fisher, Source NM New Mexico has for decades led the nation around harm reduction policies that try to address substance use disorders without incarcerating people. Two different but related proposals to strengthen those protections were passed by the legislature but vetoed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D). Last week, Lujan Grisham vetoed two sentencing reform bills which could have stopped New Mexico from incarcerating people for simple drug possession, potentially saving millions of dollars on jail time that the…