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Education lacks across the board and the gap grows. There aren’t many unifying factors across the cannabis community these days. What once seemed like a largely in-lock-step group has splintered over the years. Still, one of the rare agreements reached across the spectrum is that the education gap

US Customs and Border Protection Seizes Over $5 Million Worth of Marijuana Concealed in Tractor-Trailer at California Border Crossing. SAN DIEGO — More than $5 million worth of illicit marijuana concealed in a tractor-trailer was seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the Otay Mesa Port of

Canada's Cannabis industry cheers US 'milestone'. Canadian cannabis companies and their investors cheered a Senate committee's decision Wednesday to push forward with measures designed to ease federal financing restrictions on their U.S. counterparts. WASHINGTON - Canadian cannabis companies and

A cannabis tax proposal is rocking the quaint Bay Area town of Sausalito, with controversy swirling around a proposed 4% tax on all marijuana sales. The city council doesn’t seem to want the new tax, the residents say it’s a bad idea, and the local pot companies say it would destroy their

Your pot may not be as strong as you think it is. Cannabis producers and testing laboratories say that many labels on legal dried cannabis misrepresent the amount of THC and CBD actually contained in the dried flower, and often overstate both. Studies by two labs and a cannabis producer show that

Sheep Devour Nearly 100 kg of Medical Cannabis in Greek Greenhouse During Storm. Greece is among the European Union (EU) nations that have legalised cannabis for certain medical purposes. The country had grown and exported cannabis before its possession was banned in 1936. A flock of hungry sheep in

Australian Woman and Accomplices Plead Guilty to Using Drone to Traffic Drugs into Prison Yard. An Australian woman and her two accomplices pleaded guilty in court to using a drone in an attempt to traffic multiple different drugs and a USB stick filled with pornography into a Queensland prison yard

The US Department of Treasury is getting hundreds more requests from banking institutions to work with cannabis businesses. Banking institutions are in a race to allow cannabis businesses ahead of imminent changes in the way cannabis is classified at the federal level, according to federal data

A bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday introduced a newly revised bill to give state-legal cannabis companies access to business banking services. Dubbed the Secure and Fair Enforcement Regulation (SAFER) Banking Act, the legislation is sponsored by Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon and

Tuesday’s discussion of bill drafts related to controlled substance law revisions in Wyoming showed state lawmakers never intended to shut down the hemp industry. Rather, they seek to criminalize cannabis products containing synthetic delta-8. Legislators on the Joint Judiciary Committee had a bill

Oklahoma Considers Industrial Hemp as Key to Rural Economic Expansion. Industrial hemp could be used to expand the economy of rural Oklahoma and as a core ingredient in products such as biofuels, plastics, batteries and cloth, a legislative panel was told this week. Speaking at a state Senate

How This Texas CEO Lied To Investors. A Texas manufacturer of hemp CBD inhalers allegedly attempted to scam investors out of millions of dollars between April 2020 and May 2023, How? According to a lawsuit filed in Texas on Sept.18 by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company's