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Canada’s roadside drug tests can’t tell the difference between tea and cocaine

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The reliability of Canada’s only federally approved device for roadside cannabis impairment testing has been thrown into question after a Vancouver lawyer determined the device is easily duped, writes Calvin Hughes. While preparing to roll out cannabis legalization in October of 2018, the Canadian government introduced a new roadside cannabis impairment testing device called the

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Texas House Votes to Significantly Expand Medical Marijuana Law

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Christy and Mark Zartler consider cannabis to be their daughter’s “rescue medicine.” Kara, 19, has severe autism and cerebral palsy, and has hurt herself — smacking and punching her face and head repeatedly — for more than a decade. Nothing, including pharmaceutical drugs, worked to calm her, until the Zartlers began illegally using medical marijuana,

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Medical marijuana growers see budding opportunity in legalizing recreational pot

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A medical marijuana cultivation center in Elk Grove Village is financially banking on the state legalizing recreational marijuana — expanding its grow operation and building a lab to process marijuana products in anticipation of what will undoubtedly become a booming industry should it pass. Illinois Grown Medicine in the northwestern suburb is confident it will

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Chinese blockchain firm swaps Bitcoin for cannabis in search of new highs

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Following the effects of the crypto-winter, one Chinese firm has been forced to diversify its business model away from blockchain. It’s chosen industrial hemp as the next addition to its portfolio. Grandshores Technology has historically invested in blockchain-based infrastructure and hardware but is shaping up to buy a 40-percent stake in Chinese industrial hemp producer

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Shoppers Drug Mart adds HelloMD’s on-demand advice to online cannabis sales

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In its biggest Canadian deal to date, HelloMD is now providing health practitioner advice through the Shoppers Drug Mart medical cannabis website to streamline access for patients. “We worked tremendously hard to be awarded this business, and being selected by Shoppers is that crowning jewel that we’ve been building towards,” says Larry Lisser, senior vice-president

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Seth Rogen Reveals Why He Didn’t Use His Own Name for His Cannabis Brand

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A Vancouver-born actor appeared on a late-night talk show Monday to talk about his new movie, and his latest venture outside the industry. Seth Rogen was on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” where he talked about his latest film, “Long Shot.” Rogen plays a journalist who reunites with his childhood crush, played by Charlize

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Man Donates $9 Million to MIT and Harvard for Cannabis Research

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A Manhattan-based investor has dropped $9 million to fund marijuana research at his alma maters—Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to the Harvard Gazette, Charles R. Broderick has donated $4.5 million to each institution to study marijuana’s effects on health and behavior. The donation is reportedly the largest private gift to benefit

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It’s a new era for hemp in Wisconsin, and Oneida Nation is seizing the opportunity

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ONEIDA – Come autumn, you’ll see fields of green on the Oneida reservation. Amid changing tides for hemp in Wisconsin, the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin will grow the crop this summer as part of a state pilot program geared toward exploring its myriad uses. And for the tribe, the possibilities seem endless. “It’s kind of

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Germany prepares for domestic cannabis cultivation

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Germany is awarding contracts to domestic cannabis growers in an attempt to develop its medical industry and become less reliant on imports. BfArM – the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices of Germany – announced last Wednesday that it would purchase a total of 7,200 kilograms of cannabis over the next four years from

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Sunny Portugal Now Path to EU Medical Marijuana

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For years, the Portuguese city of Cantanhede has been known for its wine products and roasted suckling pig, a local specialty. But the city has something new: Portugal’s first medical cannabis production farm. The cannabis plant produces cannabinoids – chemical compounds used in treating health disorders. Parts of the plant are used to make the