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A Company Is Sending Cannabis and Coffee to Space to See if They Mutate

Front Range Biosciences is flying hemp and coffee aboard a SpaceX mission in March.

Astronauts have taken medication to space since the early days of off-planet exploration—but next spring, a Colorado company plans to be the first to send plant cultures of coffee and hemp, a variety of marijuana, to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission will test if zero gravity will mutate or genetically alter the plants, so presumably someday you can have a CBD-infused coffee on Mars.


Front Range Biosciences, an agricultural biotech company that breeds genetically consistent hemp and coffee varieties, has partnered with tech startup Space Cells and the University of Colorado, Boulder to launch more than 480 plant cell cultures in an incubator made for space. The cultures will hitch aboard a SpaceX cargo flight slated for March 2020 to resupply the ISS.

While the plant Cannabis sativa is still illegal on the federal level, hemp was made legal again a year ago. Hemp is a breed of cannabis that cannot get you stoned because it lacks high quantities of the chemical THC.

Hemp is, however, useful for food, textiles and sucking up heavy metals in the ground. It also contains high amounts of CBD, a cannabis-derived molecule that seems to have numerous medicinal properties, such as treating epilepsy, anxiety, and pain, although the evidence isn’t solid yet. Either way, hemp is a versatile plant that could have many applications in space.

“This is the first time anyone is researching the effects of microgravity and spaceflight on hemp and coffee cell cultures,” Jonathan Vaught, co-founder and CEO of Front Range Biosciences, said in a statement. “There is science to support the theory that plants in space experience mutations. This is an opportunity to see whether those mutations hold up once brought back to earth and if there are new commercial applications.”

After a month in space, the cells will be returned to Earth so Front Range can analyze the DNA and evaluate the effects of radiation and microgravity on the plants. “We are excited to learn more about both hemp and coffee gene expression in microgravity and how that will inform our breeding programs,” Reggie Gaudino, VP of research and development at Front Range, said in a statement.


While this could be one of the first steps toward producing interstellar pot or coffee, the company claims this could have terrestrial applications, too. In places hard-hit by climate change, for example, it may help design more resilient crops. Last year, Front Range partnered with Frinj Coffee to produce coffee plants that can grow in Southern California, which isn’t as easy to do outside of equatorial countries like Colombia.

While this hemp and coffee experiment will be unique, it isn’t the first time cannabis has been sent off-planet. On June 1, 2013, Seed Hub and High Times used a weather balloon to send a joint, a small marijuana plant, and 95 seeds nearly 20 miles off the ground. But that same year Dale Chamberlain, a former NASA botanist who helped build plant grow boxes for zero gravity, hinted to Motherboard that cannabis seeds may have been smuggled onto the ISS before.

In 2017, a dispensary called Herban Planet and Sent to Space tried an experiment similar Front Range’s proposal, launching a pound of thin mint-flavored weed with a weather balloon 131,208 feet. They were testing for DNA changes as well, but their cannabis wasn’t in space for very long. EvenViceland sent a spliff up 32.4km into the atmosphere.

And earlier this year, Space Tango, a Kentucky-based space research company, sent hemp seeds to the ISS via a SpaceX rocket, returned them to earth and started growing them. Their results don’t seem to be published yet.


But even if this isn’t the first weed in space, it also won’t be the last. Front Range plans to run many experiments like this.

“In the future, we plan for the crew to harvest and preserve the plants at different points in their grow-cycle, so we can analyze which metabolic pathways are turned on and turned off,” Louis Stodieck, director of BioServe Space Technologies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, said in a statement. “This is a fascinating area of study that has considerable potential.”
 
Not sure anybody should be giving Gronk any more intoxicants! hahaha


State laws may render NFL’s anti-cannabis policy difficult to enforce

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Despite protests and increasing pressure from former players, and a study by Harvard, the National Football League (NFL) continues to ban its players from using cannabis.
But there’s good news — shifting state laws may soon make the ban increasingly difficult to enforce.

Nevada recently became the first state to prohibit all employers, except those hiring for particularly safety-sensitive positions, from rejecting applicants based on testing positive for cannabinoids. The state is also the new home of the Raiders, who have moved from Oakland to Las Vegas in time for the 2020 season — it will be difficult for the league to evenly apply its drug-testing policy across all of its teams.

Although the league doesn’t habitually reject new employees based on failed cannabis screenings, test results can lead to increased screening during the season — which can result in unpaid suspensions, such as those issued to New York Jets linebacker Kevin Pierre-Louis, New England Patriots wide receiver Josh Gordon, and Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle David Irving.

With an increasing number of states legalizing cannabis for medicinal and/or adult use, it’s likely that the policy will be enacted in other regions.
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David Irving was suspended indefinitely from the league in 2019 for his cannabis consumption. Instagram

The NFL continues to cling to the federally illegal status of cannabis as a Schedule I drug. But other professional sports leagues like the MLB are revising or doing away entirely with cannabis prohibition for players.

With star players like the Patriots’ Rob Gronkowski saying they would consider coming out of retirement if the NFL allowed cannabis use, and team owners like the Cowboys’ Jerry Jones speculating that the policy could soon be on its way out, the NFL may have to seriously contemplate making a policy change sooner rather than later — before state laws do it for them.
 



Sarah Silverman Calls Out Dave Chappelle For Not Sharing His Marijuana

Dave Chappelle is a marijuana bogart, Sarah Silverman revealed at an award ceremony honoring the fellow comedian.
In a clip from the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor gala that was posted on Sunday, Silverman talked about her long friendship with Chappelle and went on to share an anecdote about how he once visited her and smoked an entire joint himself without sharing.
“We were together in Vancouver and he came over to smoke a joint. And that’s exactly what he did,” she said. “He came over and he smoked a joint—the whole thing. Like by himself, while pontificating about everything that’s wrong with the world.”

“I’ll tell you what’s wrong with the world: a lack of sharing,” she joked. “I think it’s puff, puff, pass—not puff, puff, puff, puff.”
This was at least the second time that Chappelle’s affinity for mind-altering substances came up during the prestigious awards ceremony that was taped in October and is being aired on PBS on Tuesday. Another fellow comedian, Aziz Ansari, came on stage and joked about a psychedelic experience he had with Chappelle the day before he was announced as the prize’s recipient.
In that bit, Ansari said Chappelle asked him if he wanted to take psilocybin mushrooms together. While Ansari initially said he wanted to take it easy and relax, Chappelle persuaded him that eating the psychedelic fungi would be a more memorable experience to mark the occasion.

“I said, ‘Dave you’ve got a point, let’s eat those mushrooms—to Twain,'” Ansari said.
Another person with a drug story about Chappelle is podcaster Joe Rogan, who recently talked about the comedian going to a private screening of Once Upon a Time In Hollywood and eating magic mushrooms that he got from a fan. Rogan didn’t partake, but he said Chappelle gifted him an unlabeled bag of cannabis edibles.
Both psilocybin and marijuana have regularly been featured in Chappelle’s comedy routines. In 1998, for example, he joked about a time he took mushrooms (also from a stranger) and started hallucinating during a haircut.

Beyond comedy, Chappelle has also advocated for marijuana reform on a serious basis. Former NAACP President Ben Jealous, who ran for governor of Maryland in 2018 on a pro-legalization platform, said Chappelle was the person who first put the idea of cannabis reform in his head.
 
Baron23 said:



Sarah Silverman Calls Out Dave Chappelle For Not Sharing His Marijuana

Dave Chappelle is a marijuana bogart, Sarah Silverman revealed at an award ceremony honoring the fellow comedian.
In a clip from the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor gala that was posted on Sunday, Silverman talked about her long friendship with Chappelle and went on to share an anecdote about how he once visited her and smoked an entire joint himself without sharing.
“We were together in Vancouver and he came over to smoke a joint. And that’s exactly what he did,” she said. “He came over and he smoked a joint—the whole thing. Like by himself, while pontificating about everything that’s wrong with the world.”

“I’ll tell you what’s wrong with the world: a lack of sharing,” she joked. “I think it’s puff, puff, pass—not puff, puff, puff, puff.”
This was at least the second time that Chappelle’s affinity for mind-altering substances came up during the prestigious awards ceremony that was taped in October and is being aired on PBS on Tuesday. Another fellow comedian, Aziz Ansari, came on stage and joked about a psychedelic experience he had with Chappelle the day before he was announced as the prize’s recipient.
In that bit, Ansari said Chappelle asked him if he wanted to take psilocybin mushrooms together. While Ansari initially said he wanted to take it easy and relax, Chappelle persuaded him that eating the psychedelic fungi would be a more memorable experience to mark the occasion.

“I said, ‘Dave you’ve got a point, let’s eat those mushrooms—to Twain,'” Ansari said.
Another person with a drug story about Chappelle is podcaster Joe Rogan, who recently talked about the comedian going to a private screening of Once Upon a Time In Hollywood and eating magic mushrooms that he got from a fan. Rogan didn’t partake, but he said Chappelle gifted him an unlabeled bag of cannabis edibles.
Both psilocybin and marijuana have regularly been featured in Chappelle’s comedy routines. In 1998, for example, he joked about a time he took mushrooms (also from a stranger) and started hallucinating during a haircut.

Beyond comedy, Chappelle has also advocated for marijuana reform on a serious basis. Former NAACP President Ben Jealous, who ran for governor of Maryland in 2018 on a pro-legalization platform, said Chappelle was the person who first put the idea of cannabis reform in his head.
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Thank you for posting that!
I want to apologize for my behavior.
I must seam like a hard less prick?
However thank you for being you!
Love this post so much!
 
ataxian said:
I want to apologize for my behavior.
I must seam like a hard less prick?
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I have no idea at all why you say that, my friend. I don't see that aspect in your posts.

Cheers
 
How Much Cannabis Each State Sold in First Month of Legal Sales

Illinois dispensaries sold nearly $40 million dollars with of cannabis in the first 31 days of recreational cannabis sales, according to new numbers released last week.
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation announced the number on Feb. 3. Officials said the final total of $39,247,840.83 came from the sale of 972,045 cannabis products at licensed retailers across the state.
The state also said the lion’s share of those sales went to Illinois residents, who purchased over $30 million worth of pot, while those visiting tourist destinations like Chicago or just jumping state lines to escape dated marijuana laws spent almost $9 million.
“A portion of every cannabis sale will be reinvested in communities harmed most by the failed war on drugs,” the state’s report noted.
The office of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said the first month of legal cannabis sales was a success, and again emphasized the importance of equity in the cannabis industry.
“The successful launch of the Illinois’ legal cannabis industry represents new opportunities for entrepreneurs and the very communities that have historically been harmed by the failed war on drugs,” said Toi Hutchinson, senior advisor for cannabis control to Pritzker. “The administration is dedicated to providing multiple points of entry into this new industry, from dispensary owners to transporters, to ensure legalization is equitable and accessible for all
Illinoisans.”
So where does that $40 million in first-month legal cannabis sales rank all time among other states that have legalized? Let’s look at Nevada first. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that, in September 2017, Nevada officials announced the state had sold $27 million worth of cannabis products. We have some slightly longer periods we can look at too for Nevada, as the Nevada Dispensary Association said the first four months of legal sales from July through October 2017 saw $127 million in sales.
So if Illinois was to keep pace with its first month sales, keeping in mind there hasn’t been enough flower to go around when it transitioned to the legal market, it could hit nearly $160 million in the first four months, blowing Nevada out of the water again.
In Colorado, the state’s dispensaries sold $5 million worth of pot in the first week. Years later, Colorado ramped up to selling $119 million in the month of January 2018. But that would be the last month that Colorado served as the state selling the most pot per month in America.



That’s because California’s adult-use cannabis market came online in January 2018 and conducted $114 million in sales, according to BDS Analytics. By February 2018, California would be the largest legal marketplace in the world and never look back. (Of course, these numbers only reflect the legal market, and experts estimate that California’s traditional underground cannabis market is still worth three times that of the legal one.)
So while Illinois may have not had as big a start as the more populous California, it was plenty reputable. Plus, they have a bunch of other cool stuff going on.
Recently, the Illinois Department of Agriculture started the application process for cannabis infusers, craft growers and transporter licenses. They’ll start taking them on Valentine’s Day and people will have a month to get them in.
“Social equity applicants will receive additional points on their application and are eligible to receive technical assistance, grants, low-interest loans and fee reductions and waivers,” the state noted.
Illinois equity-centric plan for marijuana legalization has long been considered one of the most progressive approaches to fight off the damage done by the War on Drugs to communities of color. One of the most important parts of the program is there will be money to support entrepreneurs from those impacted communities, which is currently an issue with a lot of equity programs in other places.
Here’s a comparison of each state with legal cannabis sales, in order of when they opened up for sales, and how much they earned:
Colorado, January 2014: $14 million ($46.6 million including medical marijuana)
Washington, July 2014: $3.2 million
Oregon, January 2016: $13.9 million
Alaska, October 2016: $750,581 (for first five weeks)
Nevada, September 2017: $27 million
California, January 2018: $114 million
Massachusetts, November 2018: $9.3 million
Michigan, December 2019: $6.5 million
Illinois, January 2020: $40 million
Both Vermont and Maine have legalized adult-use cannabis, but do not have adult-use cannabis marketplaces set up yet.
 
Canadian boy, 8, wins $200 worth of cannabis products at youth hockey tournament

A grandfather in Canada says he was outraged after finding out what his 8-year-old grandson had won in a raffle at a youth hockey tournament: about $200 worth of marijuana products.

Keith Redl, of British Columbia, told Toronto’s CTV News that his grandson, who plays in a youth hockey league, had entered raffle tickets to win a prize.


A Canadian grandfather says his 8-year-old grandson won $200 worth of pot products in a raffle over the weekend.

A Canadian grandfather says his 8-year-old grandson won $200 worth of pot products in a raffle over the weekend. (nj.gov)
“Each team is usually responsible for putting a gift basket or prize package together with a minimum value of $50,” Redl told the station. “And then what they do is they have a big setup and they have a paper bag taped in front of each of these prizes.”

The prizes, Redl said, are usually geared towards children. Redl’s grandson had put in his tickets in a particular bag. His family was later notified that he had won “$200 worth of pot,” Red said.

A picture taken the child’s father shows various cannabis paraphernalia, including edibles, a lighter and a smoking apparatus.

“My grandson thought he won a great prize,” Redl said. “’Dad, I won chocolate!’ ‘No, son, there’s bad drugs in the chocolate.’ How do you explain that to a kid?”

The Dawson Creek Minor Hockey Association issued a statement explaining that the prize was meant for adults and never where the children were.

“The products did not appear on the donation table, only a photo and list of the items contained in the basket,” the statement said, adding that the raffle winner had been given the option not to accept the prize.

Redl, a policeman for 32 years, called the situation “ridiculous.”

“There is no place for drugs at a child’s hockey tournament,” he said.


The association said it is updating its policies to “ensure that going forward our charitable events are in keeping with our policies and government policies.”
 
Baron23 said:



Sarah Silverman Calls Out Dave Chappelle For Not Sharing His Marijuana

Dave Chappelle is a marijuana bogart, Sarah Silverman revealed at an award ceremony honoring the fellow comedian.
In a clip from the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor gala that was posted on Sunday, Silverman talked about her long friendship with Chappelle and went on to share an anecdote about how he once visited her and smoked an entire joint himself without sharing.
“We were together in Vancouver and he came over to smoke a joint. And that’s exactly what he did,” she said. “He came over and he smoked a joint—the whole thing. Like by himself, while pontificating about everything that’s wrong with the world.”

“I’ll tell you what’s wrong with the world: a lack of sharing,” she joked. “I think it’s puff, puff, pass—not puff, puff, puff, puff.”
This was at least the second time that Chappelle’s affinity for mind-altering substances came up during the prestigious awards ceremony that was taped in October and is being aired on PBS on Tuesday. Another fellow comedian, Aziz Ansari, came on stage and joked about a psychedelic experience he had with Chappelle the day before he was announced as the prize’s recipient.
In that bit, Ansari said Chappelle asked him if he wanted to take psilocybin mushrooms together. While Ansari initially said he wanted to take it easy and relax, Chappelle persuaded him that eating the psychedelic fungi would be a more memorable experience to mark the occasion.

“I said, ‘Dave you’ve got a point, let’s eat those mushrooms—to Twain,'” Ansari said.
Another person with a drug story about Chappelle is podcaster Joe Rogan, who recently talked about the comedian going to a private screening of Once Upon a Time In Hollywood and eating magic mushrooms that he got from a fan. Rogan didn’t partake, but he said Chappelle gifted him an unlabeled bag of cannabis edibles.
Both psilocybin and marijuana have regularly been featured in Chappelle’s comedy routines. In 1998, for example, he joked about a time he took mushrooms (also from a stranger) and started hallucinating during a haircut.

Beyond comedy, Chappelle has also advocated for marijuana reform on a serious basis. Former NAACP President Ben Jealous, who ran for governor of Maryland in 2018 on a pro-legalization platform, said Chappelle was the person who first put the idea of cannabis reform in his head.
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DP is so funny!
 
Well, my heart can rest easy now know that MLB is allowing players to consume MJ....sigh...LOL


MLB: Baseball Players can Smoke Cannabis but can't be Sponsored by Weed Companies

With spring training now in full swing, Major League Baseball is further clarifying its stance on marijuana. Players can now consume cannabis without risk of discipline, the league explained in a new memo, but they can't show up to work under the influence and — at least for now — are barred from entering into commercial arrangements with companies in the marijuana industry.
The league also says it's also teaming with product-testing organization NSF International to analyze and certify legal, contaminant-free CBD products in order to allow teams to store them on club premises.
The announcements came in a new memorandum from MLB Deputy Commissioner Daniel R. Halem. Dated February 19, it's an update to the MLB's decision late last year to remove cannabis from the league's list of banned substances.
Before the rule change, players who tested positive for THC were referred to mandatory treatment, and failure to comply carried a fine of up to $35,000. That penalty is now gone.
But despite the relaxed marijuana rules, the league says in the new memo, which was first reported by ESPN's Jeff Passan, that key restrictions remain on how players and teams may interact with legal cannabis. “While natural cannabinoids will no longer be considered Prohibited Substances under MLB's Drug Programs,” the memo says, “there are still restrictions on, and risks associated with, the use, possession and distribution of marijuana and other natural cannabinoids.”



For one thing, players will still be subject to sanctions if they show up to work high. “If players or Club personnel appear under the influence of marijuana or any other cannabinoid during any of the Club's game's practices, workouts, meetings or otherwise during the course and within the scope of their employment,” the memo says, “they will be referred to a mandatory evaluation under the applicable cannabinoid and alcohol treatment program.”
Team doctors are also forbidden from recommending medical cannabis or providing any cannabinoid products to players, and teams may not store such products on club premises.
“Because Clubs are required to comply with all DEA regulations that apply to Controlled Substances, Club medical personnel are prohibited from prescribing, dispensing or recommending the use of marijuana or any other cannabinoid to any player or Club personnel,” the document, which Marijuana Moment has independently reviewed, says.
That restriction could eventually change, at least when it comes to CBD: MLB and its players union are working with NSF International, a product-testing organization, “to develop an independent testing and certification process for these products,” aimed at ensuring they are legally compliant and free of contaminants. “MLB will continue to monitor and provide updates as certain hemp-based CBD products are tested and verified by NSF International,” the memo says.
Players can also be “subject to discipline” by their team or the MLB “for engaging in certain cannabinoid-related conduct, including violations of federal, state or local laws,” the memo says, such as by distributing marijuana or driving under the influence.
Players also can't cash in on the green rush — at least not yet. Despite the mad dash by some legal marijuana companies to secure celebrity spokespeople, the league says its players may not invest in or be sponsored by the legal cannabis industry.
MLB says it intends to release a separate bulletin “regarding investments in, and commercial arrangements with, companies that produce, market, sell and/or distribute natural cannabinoids.” But “until such guidance is issued, any such investments or commercial arrangements are still considered to be prohibited in accordance with current practices,” Halem wrote.
The new policies stem from negotiations last year between the MLB and its players union. Both parties agreed to approach the league's drug policy with an emphasis on treatment rather than penalties. Players who test positive for opioids or cocaine, for example, will be penalized only if they refuse treatment.
A number of athletic governance bodies have recently relaxed rules around cannabinoids as laws change and medical applications become more widely accepted. The World Anti Doping Agency (WADA), for example, said in 2017 that athletes can use CBD, and it also recently increased its allowable limit on THC metabolites.
Meanwhile, the National Football League is in negotiations with players about how to adjust its own marijuana rules. A proposed collective bargaining agreement from the NFL Players Association aims to recast drug policy “to increase emphasis on clinical care over punishment.” Players would no longer be suspended for testing positive for THC, and annual testing would be limited to the first two weeks of training camp. The league's THC testing limit would be raised from 35 to 150 nanograms, bringing the limit in line with WADA standards.
In an effort to reduce drug-related harms, however, the plan would increase penalties for driving under the influence, imposing a three-game suspension.
 
If they do, I want some Nepalese temple ball hash.....good god, I have fond memories of that stuff from lates 60's/early 70's.

Nepal Looks to Legalize Marijuana

One of the highest countries in the world is seeing a new effort to legalize marijuana.

Nepal, located 2,565 meters above sea level, has seen a wave of momentum on the cannabis reform front.

It all started earlier this year in January when Birodh Khatiwada, a lawmaker from Nepal’s ruling Communist Party, filed a bill in the nation’s federal parliament registering a motion of public importance around parliament advocating the legalization of cannabis. Khatiwada was able to get 45 of his peers in parliament to support the effort. Khatiwada’s home district of Makawanpur is said to be among the biggest producers of cannabis in Nepal.

One of the other wild aspects of that request was it also called for a ban on imports of foreign alcohol imports. But The Katmandu Post reported those imports had already been on the decline as domestic alcohol production had been ramping up in recent years.

Things took another stop this month when a bill demanding the government open up marijuana cultivation to Nepal’s agriculture sector was filed March 2.. Adding extra weight to the cause, the man who filed the bill was Sher Bahadur Tamang.

Tamang was elected in 2017 and quickly became Law Minister. Unfortunately for him, he made some remarks about female Nepalese students abroad that really made everyone upset and the party forced him to step down from the position.

It gets a little fuzzy on how exactly the mechanics of the cannabis legalization bill will work from there. But make no mistake, it’s big news in the New York-sized country of 30 million people. This week, the English language version of OnlineKhabar noted it’s not really clear if the bill is actually legalizing marijuana for recreational use.
According To OnlineKhabar, everyone in Nepal was generally cool with pot up until the 1960s and ’70s. And it wasn’t that they changed their minds, but forces abroad at the United Nations and in the United States saw all the hippies heading to the Katmandu Valley to smoke weed and do psychedelics and they weren’t impressed. Add that international pressure to the local pressure from people realizing that maybe they didn’t want to deal with first-generation wooks all the time, and you had the recipe for Nepal’s Narcotic Drugs Control Act of 1973.

But as with many places around the world, cannabis prohibition has certainly failed in Nepal over the last 50 years. According to data from the countries Narcotics Control Bureau, one could even argue marijuana has seen a massive upswing in popularity in recent years. Between 2017 and 2017 Nepalese authorities seized about 17,762 plants across the country. From 2018-2019 that number jumped 10 times to 198,492 plants. Authorities also reported seizing 9633.5 kg [21,238.23 pounds] of cannabis and 2390.8 kg [5270 pounds] of hashish in the final three months of 2019.

Lawmakers cited watching other places legalize marijuana in their push. It’s not hard to imagine the people of cannabis’s ancestral homeland saw the policy flip happening in the Western world and essentially said, “Why are we listening to these guys again?”

If the bill is successful, even more of Nepal’s farmers will feel comfortable growing the nation’s storied genetics. Nepali landraces are famous for their hash making properties and in the right conditions can soar to 15 feet tall. But they are also out there on the sativa side and the stringy buds aren’t too appealing. Hybridizations with Afghanis and other strains have certainly given them more sway with Western consumers.

Regardless of the current wave of excitement in Nepal, Thailand remains the undisputed king of Asian cannabis hype at the moment. In addition to having more than twice the population of Nepal and their own landrace genetics, the ball is already rolling in putting the bricks in the foundation of the country’s emerging cannabis industry.
 
Well, yeah....I mean, this is me. hahaha....what else are we to do (answer: eat and drink also LOL)

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Pot use reached all-time high in March amid lockdown measures: Cowen

Cannabis use hit an all-time high in March as lockdown measures spread across the U.S., giving people more free time with less to do.
A March survey of 2,500 consumers by Cowen & Co. found that 33 per cent had tried cannabis at some point in their lives, a record high. For the past month, 12.8 per cent of respondents said they’d used pot, above the 12.5 per cent average in 2019.

Sales spiked in mid-March as people rushed to stock up ahead of potential dispensary closures, Cowen said, using data from cannabis analytics firm Headset Inc. Weekly sales growth peaked at 64 per cent in the week ended March 16, the highest rate of increase since at least the beginning of 2019.


However, sales decelerated during the last two weeks of the month to the mid- to high-single-digit range. This may be linked to a “more pronounced deterioration in job security for past-month cannabis consumers relative to the general population,” according to analysts led by Vivien Azer.
The survey found that the percentage of cannabis consumers working full time fell by 290 basis points to 42.4 per cent in March from February, a bigger decline than the general population. They also tended to be less comfortable with their financial situation.
 
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Well, yeah....I mean, this is me. hahaha....what else are we to do (answer: eat and drink also LOL)

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Pot use reached all-time high in March amid lockdown measures: Cowen

Cannabis use hit an all-time high in March as lockdown measures spread across the U.S., giving people more free time with less to do.
A March survey of 2,500 consumers by Cowen & Co. found that 33 per cent had tried cannabis at some point in their lives, a record high. For the past month, 12.8 per cent of respondents said they’d used pot, above the 12.5 per cent average in 2019.

Sales spiked in mid-March as people rushed to stock up ahead of potential dispensary closures, Cowen said, using data from cannabis analytics firm Headset Inc. Weekly sales growth peaked at 64 per cent in the week ended March 16, the highest rate of increase since at least the beginning of 2019.


However, sales decelerated during the last two weeks of the month to the mid- to high-single-digit range. This may be linked to a “more pronounced deterioration in job security for past-month cannabis consumers relative to the general population,” according to analysts led by Vivien Azer.
The survey found that the percentage of cannabis consumers working full time fell by 290 basis points to 42.4 per cent in March from February, a bigger decline than the general population. They also tended to be less comfortable with their financial situation.
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Very interesting post 4-sure!
I have been around the world a few time’s and picked up on different view point’s.
Thank you 4-everything!
 
So, is it like an eight for an eight ball? hahaha

The Irish are trading cocaine for cannabis in lockdown: Police


Ireland has one of the highest rates of cocaine use in Europe and consuming illegal drugs is, for some, the norm. But with more than 9,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country as of this week and more police on the streets, authorities claim the pandemic is putting the drug trade on hold.


“With gardaí (the police) out in force patrolling the nation’s roads, many of gangland’s most notorious figures appear to have made a decision to hunker down and wait out the pandemic — at least for the moment,” MSN reports.


Police predict cocaine use will drop while people are in lockdown at home.


“The recreational drug-user — the guy who takes cocaine at weekends — may not be spending their money on cocaine, as we saw with the fall-off in usage during the economic crash in 2008,” a police source told The Irish Times.


As for cannabis, which is also illegal, the source pointed out little change in demand.


“Probably 60 per cent to 70 per cent of people who smoke weed do it at home watching television or walking the dog or fishing or whatever — that’s how they always smoked it, and that will continue,” the Garda source said.


Here’s how the pandemic has had a significant impact on illegal trade and some long-standing gang feuds in these three areas in Ireland.
 
Baron23 said:
So, is it like an eight for an eight ball? hahaha

The Irish are trading cocaine for cannabis in lockdown: Police


Ireland has one of the highest rates of cocaine use in Europe and consuming illegal drugs is, for some, the norm. But with more than 9,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country as of this week and more police on the streets, authorities claim the pandemic is putting the drug trade on hold.


“With gardaí (the police) out in force patrolling the nation’s roads, many of gangland’s most notorious figures appear to have made a decision to hunker down and wait out the pandemic — at least for the moment,” MSN reports.


Police predict cocaine use will drop while people are in lockdown at home.


“The recreational drug-user — the guy who takes cocaine at weekends — may not be spending their money on cocaine, as we saw with the fall-off in usage during the economic crash in 2008,” a police source told The Irish Times.


As for cannabis, which is also illegal, the source pointed out little change in demand.


“Probably 60 per cent to 70 per cent of people who smoke weed do it at home watching television or walking the dog or fishing or whatever — that’s how they always smoked it, and that will continue,” the Garda source said.


Here’s how the pandemic has had a significant impact on illegal trade and some long-standing gang feuds in these three areas in Ireland.
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Remember (BLOW) the movie?
In the early 70’s we would bring back pounds of the stuff or paste as surfer’s called it.
Before custom’s..
CANNABIS or MARIJUANA was in a big trash bag from SOUTH AMERICA..
Before brick weed.
Their was music that bring back this era: (BIG YELLOW TAXI) The song was written about something else?
Hair was hippie long on dude’s.
Back when joint’s were in fashion we would lace the paper in COKE?
I don’t practice this irrational behavior these daze.
CANNABIS is way soft compared!
 
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ataxian said:
Remember (BLOW) the movie?
In the early 70’s we would bring back pounds of the stuff or paste as surfer’s called it.
Before custom’s..
CANNABIS or MARIJUANA was in a big trash bag from SOUTH AMERICA..
Before brick weed.
Their was music that bring back this era: (BIG YELLOW TAXI) The song was written about something else?
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Yeah, I remember....I remember the shit almost killed. I remember that! haha
 
Baron23 said:
Yeah, I remember....I remember the shit almost killed. I remember that! haha
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Baron23 said:
Yeah, I remember....I remember the shit almost killed. I remember that! haha
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My friend’s thought I was special because I loved school.
We have bad & decent teacher’s!
Some professor’s said that pot was harmless.
However cocaine in its processed form is deadly.
CANNABIS seem’s to be genial?
Many who caught the COKE HABIT r dead now?
Careful what to dose with?
 
Ok, Oregon I get....but Oklahoma??!! haha On another board there is a guy from OK and he does go on a good bit about the very generous med program there and its pricing. I mean, OK?!! The absolute buckle of the bible belt, Okie from Muskogee Oklahoma? haha

I really was amazed that OK passed and implemented its MMJ program so well and so fast. Give other states a bar to aim for, I think.

Oklahoma, Oregon Cities Lead For Most Dispensaries Per Residents

In an attempt to discover which states within the U.S. are posting the biggest numbers in terms of marijuana dispensaries per capita, dispensary chain owner Verilife conducted a study spanning 600 cities. The company analyzed marijuana dispensary data from more than 600 cities with a population of at least 50,000 people within 36 states via state government health, cannabis, and recreational marijuana authority records up to Jan. 10, 2020.



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Tax revenue from marijuana sales by state was also evaluated and showed that, to no one’s surprise, California led the pack with a whopping $345 million in marijuana-related tax revenue in 2018. Marijuana tax revenue data for Texas and Iowa was not available, and there are 16 states where such taxes were not collected.

As one of the first states to legalize medical marijuana, Oregon was a sure thing as the state with the most marijuana dispensaries per capita, with 16.5 dispensaries per 100,000 residents. Oklahoma came in a surprising second place at 15.6 dispensaries per 100,000, despite the fact that dispensaries were illegal in the state until 2018. Montana, Colorado, and Alaska rounded out the top five. The study points out that despite its second-place ranking for dispensaries per capita, Oklahoma generated the least amount of tax revenue in states where marijuana is legal.

From there, Verilife’s research breaks the numbers down city by city. Nine Oklahoma cities and eight Oregon cities made it into the top 30 for the largest number of dispensaries. In yet another twist, Missoula, Montana took first place as the city with the most dispensaries, with cities in Oregon and Colorado filling out the runner-up slots.

The study does not engage an in-depth analysis of some of the less expected outcomes, but at least one news outlet takes up the inquiry. In an interview for Oklahoma news station and NPR affiliate KGOU, reporter Drew Hutchinson spoke with Russel Ray, editor of The Journal Record. Ray shared that Oklahoma’s skyrocketing share of the dispensary market, which puts it ahead of even California, is due to a difference in licensing types (California has more than 100 types of licenses as opposed to Oklahoma’s “handful”) and licensing fees.

A license to open a marijuana dispensary in California can cost as much as $240,000 as opposed to $2,500 in Oklahoma. Also, in Oklahoma, there are no caps on the number of licenses that can be issued. Ray goes on to describe Oklahoma’s medical marijuana practices (such as criteria for determining the need for a prescription) as “somewhat lax” in comparison with other states where medical marijuana is legal. As for Missoula, Montana’s status as the U.S. city that boasts the most marijuana dispensaries, I could find no rigorous discussion about why this might be so.

For the time being, the numbers that surfaced from Verilife’s study paint an informative picture of the marijuana dispensary landscape today, but also makes it clear that when it comes to future rankings, it’s still anyone’s race.
 
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