At first glance you wouldn’t think this would be a problem for anyone: Illinois has proposed a law to allow
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Category: Culture
The Rules of the Game: The cannabis industry is busy crafting the rules they will live by. The question is whether those rules will benefit the few or the many
The idea that the “market knows best” is about on par with the idea that “Father Knows Best.” “Few ideas
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It’s Black History Month. And the looming question in the rapidly evolving cannabis industry is whether Blacks will have a seat at the table
Today, less than 4% of cannabis business owners are Black and that number is likely to become even smaller as
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Would you like some nicotine with your CBD? We knew Big Tobacco was moving into the cannabis space. What we didn’t know is they can produce a cannabis cigarette laced with nicotine
What is the deadliest invention in the history of human civilization? The cigarette. In 2018, the tobacco giant Altria, which
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A World Apart: What does every other country on this graph have except for the USA?
Americans are now dying from Covid at more than four times the rate of their neighbors to the north, the
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NFL awards $1 million to study the effects of CBD & THC on chronic pain and brain trauma
In today’s other NFL news, the league announced the award of $1M to two research teams to study the therapeutic
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Clint Eastwood won his lawsuit against companies who falsely claimed he endorsed their CBD products. But the suit he lost – defamation – is more telling
A California judge made Clint Eastwood’s day by awarding him a fistful of dollars – some $6M – by ruling
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Cannabis Capitalism: Level playing field or land of the giants?
We’re about to find out what kind of creatures we are. Just as the the growth of a child into
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The Viral Underclass: COVID-19 and AIDS Show What Happens When Inequality and Disease Collide
As the Omicron version of the coronavirus captures headlines around the world, December 1 also marks World AIDS Day whose motto is
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