Cannabis Current Events (Part 1)

So Burnet goes to jail for bribing government employes, why are the government employees who took the bribes not in prison with him :thinking:

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https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/opinion/article/Opinion-It-s-high-time-to-grow-your-own-16612838.php

from article:
“Ed’s earlier “Marijuana Grower’s Handbook*,”* first published in 1974,”

That’s the book that helped me to consistently produce my own flowers back in '74, after about 4 years of frustration without having any real help whatsoever.

Also from article:
“Beginning in 1987, I tried to grow marijuana in the woodlands of the Connecticut College Arboretum in which I lived. Back then, no mail-order seed banks supplied you with seeds”

I started buying mail order seeds from SSSC back in 1985…so?

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:cowboy_hat_face:

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Seems more like people are messing with the environment to grow marijuana, not marijuana messing with the environment… the same way people mess with the environment to grow food, to travel places, to communicate, to entertain each other, to clothe ourselves - basically, to exist. Ironically enough, they’re almost certainly publishing that article in a way that’s detrimental to the environment too, if only tangentially. :stuck_out_tongue: Luckily, the environment doesn’t really care, it has plenty of time to recover after we’ve drained it of natural resources and 90% of the population discovers we have no way to survive. The farmers, on the other hand, will still be doing fine… until the other 90% come and kill them to take their food, anyway. Ain’t humanity a peach?

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https://www.wcvb.com/article/deana-martin-massachusetts-mother-entrepreneur-black-market-marijuana-dealer/38237815

Mother, entrepreneur, drug trafficker: Massachusetts woman says she got into pot business to do good

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Brought to you by…Pfizer!

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/us/politics/robert-califf-fda.html

During his previous stint as commissioner, Dr. Califf sought to permit pharmaceutical companies to advertise off-label uses for F.D.A.-approved products, a practice that is not permitted under the strict regulations governing drug advertising. But the proposal, which many public health experts considered dangerous, was blocked by others in the Obama administration, according to a person familiar with it.

Mr. Manchin also has close ties to industry. His daughter, Heather Bresch, was until last year the chief executive officer of Mylan Inc., a pharmaceutical company that owned the severe allergy treatment EpiPen, which was at the center of public outrage over high drug prices.

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Edit; 4 years and half a mil restitution

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They mention Dirty Jerzey, and 400k is a drop in the hat. Missing a zero for what he’s supposedly moved with gifting. (though the 400k was for budhub). One of the gifting services locally was being run by a retired cop IIRC… interesting change of professions. At least thats the story on the street here…

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She’s a good person. This is a disgrace.

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Occipital neural dynamics in cannabis and alcohol use: independent effects of addiction

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-01493-y

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This is where the govt. is sending Deanna Martin:

https://www.newburyportnews.com/workers-at-federal-prisons-are-committing-some-of-the-crimes/article_07eef7e0-71ac-5305-9de1-ed830b413984.html

Workers at federal prisons are committing crimes

An Associated Press investigation has found that more than 100 federal Bureau of Prisons employees have been arrested, convicted or sentenced in criminal cases since the start of 2019

An Associated Press investigation has found that the federal Bureau of Prisons, with an annual budget of nearly $8 billion, is a hotbed of abuse, graft and corruption, and has turned a blind eye to employees accused of misconduct. In some cases, the agency has failed to suspend officers who themselves had been arrested for crimes.

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Something smells funky in Florida’s medical marijuana industry — and it’s not coming from a smoldering joint.

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excellent chart - we are all guilty of criminal DUI 24/7/365 in the blue states on the map…avoid!

https://newfrontierdata.com/cannabis-insights/between-a-prized-patent-and-hot-air-the-search-for-a-cannabis-breathalyzer-device-continues/

Between A Prized Patent and Hot Air: The Search for a Cannabis Breathalyzer Device Continues

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Key market players operating in the cannabis seeds market are Christiania Seeds, Barney’s Souvenirs BV, Mountain Top Seed Bank, Paradise Seeds Family, Seed Supreme, Sensi Seeds, Serious Seeds, Sweet Seeds, The Seed Cellar, and Dutch Passion. Major market players are adopting strategies such as mergers and acquisitions and expansion of their geographical presence and consumer base globally.
https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2021/10/28/2323119/0/en/Cannabis-Seeds-Market-Size-4-642-6Mn-by-2028-Driven-by-Medical-Industry-18-7-CAGR-Impact-of-Coronavirus-Outbreak-and-Global-Analysis-Forecast-by-TheInsightPartners-com.html

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Bad news out of Czech repub…

The conviction of Robert Veverka and the magazine Legalization for the spread of toxicomania is contemptible

please accept press realease of Czech Magazine Legalizace

November 15, 2021 ďż˝" Prague, Czech Republic

Writing about cannabis is a crime!

On November 3, 2021, the Legalizace magazine and its editor-in-chief, Robert Veverka, were convicted of inciting and promoting “toxicomania” by the district court in the town of Bruntál.

The editor-in-chief, Robert Veverka, and the publishing company of the Legalizace magazine, both prosecuted since the summer of 2020 for allegedly inciting and promoting “toxicomania”, were given a one-year prison sentence contingent on a probationary period of two and a half years as well as a fine of 50,000 CZK by the district court in Bruntál following two court hearings.

Although the judge admitted that the Legalizace magazine gives the impression of a very objective medium, as it provides broadscale, comprehensive information and expert opinions as well as insight into the medical aspects of cannabis, he proclaimed the reason for his verdict is that some of the articles may incite the desire in certain individuals to acquire equipment that could enable them to grow, harvest, process, and use cannabis in a way which is illegal. The judge also stated that if the printed photographs depict cannabis flowers evidently covered with resin, these images cannot therefore be of industrial cannabis without psychoactive properties. According to the judge, such content is a temptation to readers; almost every issue of the magazine allegedly possesses the capability of influencing the conduct of readers and inciting them to abuse addictive substances. Although the majority of the articles found in the published magazine issues are legally sound, accordin!
g to Judge Marek Stach, even one single article with the potential to incite readers is enough for the Legalizace magazine to constitute the crime of inciting and promoting toxicomania.

educationXisXnotXaXcrime

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