Could Changing Laws Turn the Cannabis Industry Corporate? [VIDEO]
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The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board this week introduced a rule that will allow investors from around the U.S. to help finance the state’s exploding legal marijuana industry. Oregon approved a similar practice last month, and Colorado is expected to follow suit, eliminating its two-year residency requirement for financiers. Though the change comes with risks of Big Marijuana or criminal cartels entering the markets, the states are moving quickly to attract more investors in expectation that California, with a [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a lawsuit from Nebraska and Oklahoma against Colorado’s regulated sales of marijuana for recreational use, removing a major threat to the multibillion-dollar state-legal cannabis industry. Possession of marijuana for any reason outside limited research remains a federal crime, and marijuana reform advocates feared an unfavorable ruling would take a wrecking ball to laws in four states that allow recreational pot sales and medical marijuana laws in many others. Colorado’s neighbors argued [...]
A man who was left brain-dead after a drugs trial in France, went seriously wrong has died, according to the hospital which had been treating him. Five other volunteers were also hospitalized after taking the trial painkiller, initially said to be a new ‘synthetic cannabis,’ on January 7 are now ‘in a stable condition’, according to the statement released by the hospital in Rennes. But three of the men are suffering a ‘handicap that could be irreversible’, according to Pierre-Gilles [...]
The Australian Parliament passed a measure Wednesday legalizing medical marijuana. The amendments to the Narcotic Drugs Act will allow cannabis to be legally grown for medical and scientific purposes for the first time in Australia. “This is a historic day for Australia and the many advocates who have fought long and hard to challenge the stigma around medicinal cannabis products so genuine patients are no longer treated as criminals,” Minister for Health Sussan Ley said in a statement. “This is [...]