Cannabis Mastercard Announces Ban On Debit Card Transactions For Weed Purchases by Sophia Vida July 28, 2023 Payment processing powerhouse Mastercard this week revealed the company is taking steps to prevent PIN-based debit card transactions for marijuana purchases, dealing a blow to a regulated cannabis industry already struggling with ...
Cannabis Cannabeginners: How To Legally Use Cannabis In South Africa by Sophia Vida July 28, 2023 Cannabis is known by different names around the world; in South Africa, it is most commonly referred to as “dagga” (in Afrikaans) or “umthunzi wez’nkukhu” (in Zulu), which translates to “chicken shade.” While South A...
Cannabis House Approves Spending Bill with Amendments for Veteran Medical Cannabis Treatments by Sophia Vida July 28, 2023 On July 26, the U.S. House of Representatives approved amendments and added a large spending bill. Among those amendments was an addition that would permit doctors from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to recommend medical ...
Cannabis Senators Back Bill to Tackle Big Pharma’s Rocketing Prescription Drug Prices by Sophia Vida July 28, 2023 Built-in structures to incentivize jacking up drug prices in pharmacies, and prey on seniors, could soon be whittled down. Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) were among those who voted Wednesday to advance a b...
Cannabis Ohio Pot Legalization Initiative Fails To Collect Enough Signatures by Sophia Vida July 27, 2023 A campaign to legalize recreational marijuana in Ohio fell short of the number of verified signatures needed to qualify a proposed ballot measure for the ballot, missing its goal by less than 700 signatures. The effort is not dead...
Cannabis Jon’s Stone-Cold Cop List #40: The Second Annual Belated Hash Off by Sophia Vida July 27, 2023 Everybody goes crazy for 7/10 now, just like they do for 4/20, but this one seems to be hitting its commercial stride far faster than our OG holiday did. If I could show you the amount of pitches I got for distillate vapes or edib...
Cannabis Study Identifies Hemp Pollen Nutrients for Bees, Most Hemp-Friendly Bee by Sophia Vida July 27, 2023 A new study sheds light on exactly what nutrients hemp plants are providing to pollinators, which pollinator likes hemp the most, and which variety of hemp is most popular among bees out of four different varieties. Researchers...
Cannabis CBD Liquid Products Often Short On CBD, Report Says by Sophia Vida July 27, 2023 Some CBD products may not be all they seem, according to newly published analysis. Researchers from the United Kingdom assessed a variety of CBD-based liquid products –– tinctures, oils, e-liquids and beverages –– th...
Cannabis Report Highlights How Cocaine Trade Has Swarmed Peru’s Indigenous Territory by Sophia Vida July 27, 2023 An engrossing new story published on Tuesday sheds light on the impact of Peru’s exploding cocaine trade on the country’s Indigenous people. The story, published by Al Jazeera, opens with Fernando Aroni, a 41-year-old lea...
Cannabis Report: Massachusetts Cannabis Social Equity Fund At $0 Year After Launch by Sophia Vida July 26, 2023 A fund created by Massachusetts state lawmakers last year to subsidize equity-owned cannabis businesses there remains empty, according to a report. Boston Business Journal reports that a “bill passed by the Massachusetts le...