Category: Culture
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Chicago Suburban Voters Approve of Marijuana Sales in their Neighborhoods
Bud was on the ballot Tuesday in some Chicago suburbs — and a vast majority of voters said “yes” to allowing recreational pot sales in their hometowns. A majority of voters in Naperville, Rosemont, Cicero, Northlake and Westchester cast ballots in favor of allowing weed to be sold to adults for recreational use. Meanwhile, voters…
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San Francisco dispensaries allowed to stay open despite coronavirus shutdown order
San Francisco officials are allowing cannabis businesses to remain open while many other stores are shut down over the next three weeks as the city goes to extreme lengths to fight the coronavirus pandemic. City officials originally told cannabis stores they had to close on Tuesday because of the city’s order one day earlier to…
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Wine vs. weed in Napa Valley
Napa County has explicitly banned commercial cannabis growing in its unincorporated rural areas, where most vineyards lie. Local farmers and winemakers are keen on protecting Napa, but they have philosophically opposing views on how weed could affect the regi…
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Even when weed is legal, employees face risks
As more states legalize or move toward legalizing medicinal or recreational cannabis, many may assume that they’re free to partake in accordance with the law. But, for employees, smoking or otherwise ingesting marijuana could possibly lead to disciplinary act…
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Marijuana Plays Role as a Cure for Epilepsy
A 1949 study showed that drug principles isolated from leaves of marijuana, an innocent looking plant that grows wild in different parts of the world are playing an important role in research on a cure for epilepsy. This is the same marijuana which so many people fear as a habit-forming drug and which is noted…
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Marijuana legalization is about to have a huge year
A marijuana-themed neon sign on display at the Cannabis World Congress in Los Angeles on September 27, 2018. | Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto via Getty Images At least 18 states stand to loosen their marijuana laws this year. It looks like 2020 could be a very big yea…
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White Weed Entrepreneurs Are Gaming Programs Meant to Help People of Color
The crowd started to gather outside the narrow storefront at about 11 p.m. on December 20. The grand opening the following morningof Berner’s on Haight, San Francisco’s newest legal cannabis storewas apparently worth queuing up for all night long. While th…
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Does Cannabis Have a Shot at Being Federally Legalized?
At this moment, 11 American states and Washington, D.C. now have adult-use cannabis legislation law on its books. When it comes to medical, 33 states have passed regulations. Additionally, 24 states and the country’s capital decriminalized marijuana in some form or another. With over half of the United States passing cannabis legislation, some wonder…get the…
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Florida men arrested after hiding drugs in bags labeled “Bag Full of Drugs”
Two gentlemen in Florida couldn’t have been more accommodating in pointing police to their massive stash of narcotics. When an officer stopped the duo Ian Simmons and Joshua Reinhardt, both 34 years old for speeding at a mere 95mph, he easily spotted two bags…
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Some parents are turning to medical marijuana to treat ADHD instead of Adderall
Some parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have grown wary of Ritalin and Adderall, common treatments for the condition, because of the stimulants’ side effects and potential for long-term abuse. Now they’re turning to docto…