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Cannabis Commission Wants Plants Next Year, Hires Director - Motita. MONTGOMERY, Ala.
(AP) — The Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission will ask state lawmakers to revise the state’s medical marijuana law in order to get plants in the ground next year and make the products available to patients sooner, Al.com reported. The commission also voted to offer State Treasurer John McMillan the job of executive director of the new agency that will run the medical cannabis program. Nearly Half of US Adults Have Tried Marijuana - Motita. WASHINGTON, D.C. — The percentage of U.S. adults who say they have tried marijuana has ticked up to 49%, the highest Gallup has measured to date.
More than 50 years ago, just 4% said they had tried the drug, but that percentage surpassed 20% in 1977, 30% in 1985 and 40% in 2015. A much smaller proportion of U.S. adults, 12%, say they “smoke marijuana.” The percentage of current marijuana smokers has been steady in recent years, varying between 11% and 13% after increasing from the 7% Gallup initially measured in 2013. The results are based on Gallup’s annual Consumption Habits poll, conducted July 6-21. Generational patterns explain the increase in marijuana experimentation over the last five decades. Montana Officials Loosen Proposed Marijuana Advertising Restrictions - Motita. The Montana Department of Revenue has revised proposed regulations regarding marijuana advertising that had raised eyebrows among dispensaries, growers and others in the state’s burgeoning adult-use cannabis industry.
This summer, the department has been navigating an exhaustive rulemaking process ahead of the Jan. 1, 2022, opening of Montana’s recreational cannabis market. While Montana voters gave adult-use marijuana the green light last November and the legislature passed a law to implement the program earlier this year, it has been up to state bureaucrats at the revenue department—which will oversee both the new recreational market and the medical marijuana system previously managed by the Department of Public Health and Human Services—to sort out the details.
While the legislature put various guardrails on legal cannabis during this spring’s session, stakeholders in Montana’s marijuana industry weren’t happy with some DOR proposals earlier this year. Source: Cannabis Use In Australia Rose Significantly During First COVID-19 Lockdown - Motita. Cannabis use in Australia spiked during the first COVID-19 lockdown period whilst methamphetamine use fell dramatically, a study has found.
Research led by the University of South Australia (UniSA) analysed wastewater samples taken during 2020. Whilst the use of methamphetamine (ice) significantly reduced during the first lockdown, use of cannabis increased significantly. The study has been published in Environmental Science and Technology Letters. The researchers, in collaboration with The University of Queensland and University of Adelaide, looked at wastewater samples taken every two months from 20 treatment plants across Australia, covering approximately half of the population. Former GOP Congressman Who Actually Supported Marijuana Reform Enters The Cannabis Industry - Motita. Lately it’s come to seem as if most of the former politicians who’ve entered the marijuana industry were unhelpful or downright hostile to legalization when they were in office.
But on Friday, a cannabis company announced an addition to its board who disrupts that narrative: a former Republican congressman who has a consistent legislative record of cosponsoring and voting for marijuana reform measures. The multi-state cannabis businesses Red White & Bloom Brands Inc. (RWB) is bringing on former Rep. Ryan Costello (R-PA) to help it navigate the complicated regulatory space, drawing on his experience in Congress as the company works to expand.
Marijuana Legalization Doesn’t Lead To Increased Youth Use, American Medical Association Study Finds - Motita. Youth marijuana use does not increase after states enact legalization for medical or recreational use, researchers concluded in a study published in a prominent scientific journal on Tuesday.
The policy change instead has an overall impact on adolescent cannabis consumption that is “statistically indistinguishable from zero,” they found. In fact, it seems that establishing certain regulated cannabis models actually leads to lower marijuana use among adolescents under certain measures—a finding that directly conflicts with anti-legalization arguments that are commonly made by prohibitionists.
The analysis, published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzed federal Youth Risk Behavior Survey data from 1993-2019 in 10 medical or adult-use states. It builds upon existing studies on the impact of cannabis reform on youth consumption that have reached similar conclusions. CBD Makes Headways Into Sports As Industry Brands Partner With Pro Golfers, Car Racers - Motita. PGA Tour and NASCAR are widely seen as most accepting of the plant among U.S. sports leagues Athletes can still be banned for using cannabis, but industry heavyweights are finding other ways to work their way into the lucrative U.S. sports landscape.
CBD brands have partnered with a handful of professional golfers and stock car racers in recent months to advertise the healing power of cannabis front-and-center for millions of regular TV and in-person viewers. Not coincidentally, the major leagues of both sports have mostly embraced the ads and allowed athletes to use CBD products as long as they comply with federal law requiring less than 0.3 percent THC content. The tricky part? BONGS & PIPES - Motita. Home - Motita.