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FridayJun 05, 2020 4:20 pm

420 with CNW – Maine Sued for Giving Non-Residents Access to its Marijuana Market

The state of Maine is being sued by local marijuana businesses for refusing to enforce a component of its marijuana laws. On Friday, the Maine Cannabis Coalition filed a lawsuit against the state, claiming that the Department of Administrative and Financial Services was in violation of state law after it failed to enforce the residency requirements included by lawmakers in the Marijuana Legalization Act. According to the law, only Maine residents can run a recreational marijuana grow, manufacturing, or retail operation. Last month, the state announced that it would abandon the residency requirement, a move that garnered outrage from stakeholders…

FridayJun 05, 2020 4:20 am

420 with CNW – Cannabis Businesses Hit by Vandals and Robbers During Ongoing Protests

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a black man, died at the hands of a Minneapolis Police Department officer, leading to nationwide protests against systemic police brutality against unarmed black men. Although the protests were peaceful at first, they became violent, leading to widespread rioting and looting over the weekend. Tons of business establishments nationwide have been affected by the looting, and marijuana businesses haven’t been spared. Dozens of cannabis shops in Oregon, Illinois, San Francisco and California have been vandalized and according to the business owners whose businesses were hit, looting was carried out by professional criminals, and not…

ThursdayJun 04, 2020 4:20 pm

420 with CNW – Poll Shows Most Arizona Voters Support Cannabis Legalization Measure

Cannabis has come a long way indeed. Despite suffering federal prohibition for decades, attitudes towards the plant are changing, and more people are looking at cannabis with an open mind. At the moment, numerous states have legalized either medical or recreational marijuana, or even both, and despite the current coronavirus crisis, there are several legalization initiatives currently in the works. According to a new poll, if marijuana activists in Arizona are able to place a legalization initiative before voters this November, it will likely pass by a wide margin. The survey described the proposed measure, the Smart and Safe Arizona…

ThursdayJun 04, 2020 4:20 am

420 with CNW – Four Ways the Marijuana Industry Can Benefit from the HEROES Act

Experts say we may be facing up to two years of intermittent lockdowns before the coronavirus is finally eradicated, and the economy will take even longer to spring back to pre-pandemic levels. At the moment, most regions in the U.S. are still under lockdown orders, and while this has helped reduce infections, the effect it has had on the economy has been catastrophic. The cannabis sector was one of the few industries that were deemed essential and allowed to continue operating amidst lockdown orders. However, due to federal prohibition, the industry has been operating at a stark disadvantage. The federal…

WednesdayJun 03, 2020 4:20 pm

420 with CNW – Reasons for Some Marijuana MSOs Thriving While Others Struggle During This Pandemic

2020 will without a doubt go down in history as one of the most challenging years of the century. It started with the discovery of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China in late 2019, and snowballed into a global health and economic crisis that we will take years to recover from. The pandemic has led to an economic downturn of immense proportions, with the U.S. suffering Great Depression-era levels of unemployment. The crisis has hit most businesses hard, especially those in the tourism and hospitality sector. The state legal cannabis industry was declared essential by most states, allowing them to…

WednesdayJun 03, 2020 4:20 am

420 with CNW – Cannabis Could Hold the Key to the US Obesity Pandemic

For the past decade and more, the U.S. has been up against a silent but deadly foe, obesity. According to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 36.5% (one third) of American adults and 17% of children were obese by 2019, and the numbers aren’t reducing any time soon. Further research has suggested that over half of the country’s population will be obese within the next ten years, with one in ten Americans being severely obese. While there are genetic factors that will increase your chances of being obese, it is often a result of poor lifestyle choices, and…

TuesdayJun 02, 2020 4:20 pm

420 with CNW – Marijuana Business Losses During the Pandemic May Be Covered by Insurance

2020 definitely isn’t playing out how we thought it would. America started the year with record low unemployment rates but by the end of May, had lost most of the gains it had made in the past fifty years and was looking at Great Depression levels of unemployment. Small businesses have definitely been hit hard, with most of the government issued coronavirus-related measures disrupting their operations and effectively cutting off their cash flows. Although most states with legal cannabis deemed the industry essential, cannabis establishments haven’t been spared from losses. The federal government issued disaster relief funds to be dispersed…

TuesdayJun 02, 2020 4:20 am

420 with CNW – Veterans and Scientists Sue DEA for Blocking Marijuana Rescheduling

According to a new lawsuit against the Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA], the agency is relying on scheduling standards that are arbitrary and misinterpret federal law to classify marijuana. The latest of many marijuana related lawsuits against the DEA, it has called into question the agency’s denial of prior cannabis rescheduling requests. The suit was filed in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals by the Scottsdale Research Institute [SRI]. The institute requested a review of the DEA’s scheduling determinations in 2020, 2016 and 1992 when the agency denied the petitions citing statutory obligations to maintain the status of cannabis as…

MondayJun 01, 2020 4:20 pm

420 with CNW – Study Shows Ancient Israelites Burned Marijuana During Worship

Cannabis enthusiasts will probably tell you that despite being prohibited and carrying a negative stereotype in many territories, cannabis has been used by folks for a very long time. Well, such advocates will be happy to learn that archaeologists have found evidence that proves their theory of cannabis use among ancient people. In a 2,700 year old temple in Tel Arad, researchers found a well preserved substance that has been identified as cannabis and its main psychoactive agent, THC. The Biblical-era temple from the Kingdom of Judah was first discovered in the Negev desert, about 59 miles south of Tel…

MondayJun 01, 2020 4:20 am

420 with CNW – US Supreme Court Declines to Hear Ohio Marijuana Decriminalization Case

A campaign to decriminalize marijuana in Ohio has been dealt a major blow after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case challenging local Ohio officials' refusal to place decriminalization initiatives on municipal ballots on Tuesday. Back in 2018, activists submitted ballot initiatives to legalize marijuana in Garrettsville and Windham, but the Portage County Board of Elections determined that the initiatives could not appear before the voters. The board argued that since the proposals constituted administrative rather than legislative issues, they were not appropriate for the ballot process. This led to a two year legal battle between cannabis reform…