The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on July 12, 2019, that it was “expediting” its efforts to develop rules for cannabidiol (CBD) and plans to issue a report on the department’s progress by early fall, its acting chief information officer announced on Twitter. FDA Acting Chief Information Officer
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) may no longer be a death sentence, but it is a life sentence for those who are coping with the chronic symptoms of the virus. Many people with HIV and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) live to their full life expectancy but at the cost of
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Just in time for your summer haze, Weedmaps is collaborating with Afters Ice Cream to bring you two cannabis-themed ice cream flavors available in downtown Los Angeles starting on National Ice Cream Day, July 21, 2019. Be sure to prime your taste buds accordingly. Weedmaps and Afters — Bringing
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The agency overseeing California’s legal marijuana market has been overmatched by the job and is struggling to hire sufficient staff and set an overall strategy for the nation’s largest cannabis economy, an audit found. About two-thirds of the 219 staff positions authorized for the Bureau of Cannabis Control remain
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Another legal fight is underway over home marijuana delivery in California. A licensed cannabis company has sued Santa Cruz County, claiming that it’s violating state law by prohibiting deliveries from out-of-county retailers into a swath of unincorporated areas. East of Eden Cannabis Co. lawsuit filed July 12, 2019, in
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Florida Amendment 2 passed by 71% of voters on Nov. 8, 2016, enabling medical marijuana to be prescribed when a physician believes its use likely outweighs the potential health risks for a patient. Smoking medical marijuana was initially prohibited under the medical marijuana law. However, the Florida Supreme Court
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Back in 2012, when the adult-use cannabis market was in its infancy, a San Francisco-based startup called Pax Labs (Actually, Ploom at the time) released a portable loose-leaf vaporizer that would end up shaping the future of weed consumption. At the time most vaporizers were bulky, stationary devices like
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The first-of-its-kind weed restaurant in America, Lowell Farms: A Cannabis Cafe in West Hollywood, California, has announced its opening date of September 1, 2019. It was granted final approval in a unanimous vote July 16, 2019, by the West Hollywood Business License Commission. The commission approved its application unanimously,
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Some California cannabis farmers are looking to borrow the wine industry’s practice of verifying products by origin. In the United States and internationally, wine that’s grown only within certain legally and geographically defined regions, called an appellation of origin or a viticultural area, can earn the right to claim
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While cannabis remains illegal in certain parts of the world, phytocannabinoids, endocannabinoids, and plants that mimic the effects of cannabis are legally sold and grown all around us. Not only found in your cannabis plant, these compounds can also be found in other plants with these cannabimimetic, meaning similar
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