This is what happens when UK bureaucrats try to shoehorn a plant extract into a framework meant for synthetic food ingredients.
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Cannabis! A Viper Vaudeville Opens in New York
A multimedia extravaganza on the history, culture, and politics of the cannabis plant opens in NYC in July 2022.
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UK Epileptic Children Denied Cannabis Prescriptions
Abandoned to their fate, desperately ill children can’t access life-saving cannabis treatments.
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Free Speech Under Attack in Czech Cannabis Crackdown
Editor convicted of promoting THC-induced “toxicomania,” could face jail time.
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California Greenlights Hemp-Derived CBD Commerce
Will California’s new CBD law become the de facto national standard?
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Death Trap: Human Rights Abuses & Drug War Casualties at Rikers Island
Cannabis is now legal in New York City, but smoking it could be lethal if you’re Black, poor, and on parole.
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The FDA Defers to Pharma, Nixes CBD as Dietary Supplement
ValidCare seeks volunteers for the final phase of expanded clinical study of CBD’s effect on the liver.
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Mexico: High Court Decriminalizes Cannabis
But will this roll back the murderous drug war?
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Marijuana & the Mexican Revolution
Excerpted from “Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational, and Scientific” by Martin A. Lee.
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Morocco Gets Legal Cannabis Sector
Geared toward exports, the new law bars recreational use while allowing cannabis cultivation for medicinal and industrial purposes.