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Late-night pot shopping? San Diego moves to OK longer hours for cannabis dispensaries
The San Diego Union-Tribune - California
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June 20, 2025
Cannabis dispensaries in San Diego could soon stay open longer each day, helping them better compete with illegal delivery services and with shops in other nearby cities. The expanded hours, which the City Council’s economic development committee...
Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes THC ban
KBTX - Texas
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June 23, 2025
AUSTIN, Texas (KBTX) -Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday vetoed a contentious state ban on THC products, keeping the Texas hemp industry alive while spiking a top priority of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. Senate Bill 3 would have banned consumable hemp products...
South Dakota to Crack Down on Hemp Product Sales Starting July 14
Cannabis Business Times
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June 20, 2025
Chemically modifying industrial hemp or converting CBD into synthetic compounds, such as delta-8 THC, is prohibited in South Dakota, where law enforcement officials will begin seizing noncompliant products starting July 14. Pennington County...
Innocan Pharma Announces Presentation Of Narrative Review On Long-Acting Synthetic Cannabidiol For Chronic Pain At PAINWEEK Conference
MENAFN
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June 20, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) HERZLIYA, Israel and CALGARY, AB, June 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Innocan Pharma Corporation (CSE: INNO) (FSE: IP4) (OTCQB: INNPF ) ("Innocan" or the "Company"), a pioneer in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries,...
How Medicare Might Change for 2026 and How It Will Affect Your Coverage
WTOP - District Columbia
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June 20, 2025
With the routine annual changes to Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans, combined with the looming potential passage of sweeping federal… With the routine annual changes to Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans, combined with the looming...
Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes THC ban, calls for regulation instead
KSAT - Texas
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June 23, 2025
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday vetoed a contentious state ban on THC products and shortly after called a special legislative...
Editorial | Another study confirms cannabis dangers to public health
The News Gazette - Illinois
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The medical community appears to be speaking with one voice. The legalization of cannabis for recreational use apparently is an idea whose time has come. How else can one explain the number of states, like Illinois, that have legalized the product...
Cannabis in Argentina: A Story of Victories and Reversals
Talking Drugs
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June 19, 2025
Cannabis in Argentina has a long history going deep into its past. As author Alejandro Corda wrote, “the use of cannabis in Argentina didn’t begin with the boom of self-cultivation… but with ancestral practices that have been erased from official...
Mass. House legislation proposes to overhaul the Cannabis Control Commission
Boston.com - Massachusetts
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June 20, 2025
Local News This is what it means for the embattled industry in the state. Suzanne Kreiter / The Boston Globe, File A new House bill is attempting a major restructuring of the state’s cannabis industry. The bill — “An Act Modernizing the...
Texas at a Crossroads: Ricky Williams and Cannabis Leaders Urge Governor Abbott to Veto SB 3 — “Don’t Fumble Our Future”
KVIA - Texas
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June 20, 2025
By Francis Page, Jr. Click here for updates on this story June 20, 2025 (Houston Style Magazine) — AUSTIN, TEXAS — In an electrifying show of unity, Texas cannabis advocates, professional athletes, veterans, and small business owners have drawn a...
Couple who left two young children in a house filled with sweets laced with cannabis sentenced
U105
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The couple's Co Antrim home was then searched and present were two unaccompanied children and a range of drugs A couple who left two young children in a house filled with sweets and chocolate laced with cannabis were sentenced at Belfast Crown...
Moore announces $400M grants, 6,900 cannabis pardons
The Daily Record - Maryland
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June 20, 2025
Key takeaways Gov. Moore to award up to $400M to communities harmed by racist policies. Over 6,900 additional cannabis convictions eligible for pardon. More than 400 census tracts designated as “Just Communities.” Lawmakers renew push for...
Taxes hiked on tobacco and cannabis to plug revenue gaps
The Victoria Advocate - Texas
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(The Center Square) — Mainers will pay more for cigarettes, cannabis and streaming services under a supplemental state budget approved by the Democratic-led Legislature. The $320 million plan, sent to Gov. Janet Mills' desk on Wednesday, seeks to...
Australian Publishers Face Legal Action for Cannabis Advertisements
Ganjapreneur - Washington
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June 20, 2025
The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) — the country’s agency for monitoring, assessing, and regulating therapeutic products — has initiated legal action against certain publishers over allegedly illegal cannabis advertisements,...
Comprehensive Two-Dimensional LC and HRMS Offer Insights into Cannabis Phenolics and Rare Flavoalkaloids
LCGC International
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Key Points: By combining hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography with reversed-phase chromatography and high-resolution mass spectrometry, researchers identified 79 polar phenolics—including 25 compounds never before reported in cannabis....
Cannabis becoming a turn-off for Phuket tourism
Bangkok Post
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June 19, 2025
Businesses propose zoning to reduce complaints from people bothered by recreational use PUBLISHED : 19 Jun 2025 at 16:43 Businesses in Phuket say widespread use of cannabis on the southern tourist island — home to 1,500 weed shops — has started to...
NEWS AND VIEWS: Nelson Chamber of Commerce cannabis policy endorsed at B.C. conference
Nelson Star
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June 20, 2025
The 73rd B.C. Chamber of Commerce AGM and Conference in Nanaimo was attended by 171 delegates from across the province Over the course of the B.C. Chamber of Commerce's annual conference held June 3-5, delegates heard from a range of policy...
Children left in house filled with sweets and chocolate laced with cannabis
The Irish News
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A couple left two young children in a house filled with sweets and chocolate laced with cannabis, a court has heard. As the case involves cruelty to children, neither defendants can be named to protect the identity of the youngsters. The 38-year...
Marijuana companies are getting into Florida's largely unregulated hemp business
WUWF - Florida
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June 20, 2025
For years, medical marijuana companies in Florida have fiercely campaigned for stricter regulation of euphoria-inducing hemp products, which can be purchased at gas stations, retail stores and — now — liquor stores. The state has one of the most...
Pennsylvania Governor Holds Tight to Cannabis Legalization in Budget Negotiations
Cannabis Business Times
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June 20, 2025
Pennsylvania’s governor and the state’s divided Legislature remain at an impasse on a path forward to legalize adult-use cannabis amid ongoing budget negotiations that must be hashed out by the end of the month. While Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro...