New Jersey Could Legalize Marijuana by April 2018

It appears that the Garden State may well become very, very green, very, very soon. Following the victory of Democrat Phil Murphy in Tuesday’s gubernatorial election in New Jersey, the legalization of marijuana could well become a reality throughout the state, and quickly too. The new governor, who won a landslide majority vote, built much of his campaign on the promise to legalize cannabis. “The criminalization of marijuana has only served to clog our courts and cloud people’s futures, so we will legalize marijuana,” Murphy said in his victory speech…

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Study Finds Cannabis Preventing Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

New evidence, from research out of both South Korea and the United States, points to marijuana as having a preventative effect on the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD. Most commonly, people with obesity have symptoms of a fatty liver, but the condition can afflict those with type 2 diabetes, as well as those who drink large quantities of alcohol. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, however, occurs when people who do not consume much or any alcohol start storing excess fat in their liver. While having liver fat is…

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Pot Companies Turning to the University of Guelph for Help

The fledgling cannabis industry is encouraging new research into marijuana that could have long-lasting effects on an array of other sectors, including new medicines and farming techniques, as firms seek irrefutable scientific evidence on the plant and its inner workings before recreational sales start legally in July next year. With recreational marijuana soon to be legal and the number of licensed medical cannabis producers expanding, scientists at the University of Guelph claim that more companies are approaching researchers for help improving their business operations for cultivating better plants. The university,…

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Man Buys Equipment at Car Boot Sale to Grow Weed in House with Kids

A marijuana consumer from Derbyshire, who police caught cultivating in a house shared with his partner and her two children, recently learnt from the justice system that what he did “could be classed as abuse.” According to Martin Lewis, the suspect, he purchased all the equipment that he required to set up his grow space at a car boot sale. Inside one of the rooms in the residence he was sharing with his partner and her kids, he set up a five-foot by eight-foot grow tent. State prosecutor for the…

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Australian Police Seize Ice and Cannabis in Major Drug Sting

Police in Toowoomba and Warwick, with narcotics dogs at their sides, conducted a passive sting operation that resulted in several notices to appear in court on charges of drug possession. The combined effort on Saturday saw officers paying very surprise visits indeed to licensed operations in Allora, Warwick, and Toowoomba. Darren Tamblyn, detective sergeant at the Warwick Criminal Investigation Branch, said that while they found several people in possession of drugs, the wider public appreciated their efforts to crack down on drugs. “A number of people were given notice to…

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What Will Happen To Maine’s Marijuana Tax Dollars?

On Thursday last week, a legislative committee decided to rewrite Maine’s recreational cannabis law to make the tax rate twice what it was before, give host towns a tax cut, and secure residents of Maine a two-year head start in the pot industry. However, leaders of the committee have concerns that the bill will not survive the LePage administration.   They are worried that officials under LePage would shred the bill, either by delaying implementation of it or by vetoing it outright, even if a special legislative session passes the…

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