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Hemp Food Division by Blue Sky Hemp Sold to Fresh Hemp Foods
Cannabis Science & Technology
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July 7, 2025
In a recent press release (1), Blue Sky Hemp Ventures Ltd. (Blue Sky) announced that the privately held Canadian company had sold their hemp food division to Fresh Hemp Foods, a hemp foods establishment. "Thanks to a differentiated strategy and...
The Cannabis Debate: Rising health risks, addiction, and regulation
Lynnwood Times - Washington State
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July 7, 2025
LYNNWOOD—As Lynnwood City Councilmembers consider approving retail cannabis in September, a growing body of research is shedding light on its potential health risks, particularly for young people, frequent users, and persons exposed to secondhand...
Adding anxiety to Pennsylvania's medical cannabis program changes patient demographics
Medical News
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July 8, 2025
Within months of Pennsylvania's medical cannabis program adding anxiety as a qualifying condition, that diagnosis quickly rose to become the most common for cannabis certifications, according to a study by researchers at the University of...
Hannibal’s Double Envelopment at Cannae
War on the Rocks
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July 8, 2025
Editor’s Note: This is part of a new series of essays entitled “Battle Studies,” which seeks, through the study of military history, to demonstrate how past lessons about strategy, operations, and tactics apply to current defense challenges. The...
Thai authorities vow crackdown on cannabis-infused products after toddler hospitalised
The Straits Times
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July 8, 2025
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Public Health Ministry has launched an urgent nationwide crackdown on cannabis-infused foods, beverages and snacks, following the hospitalisation of a two-year-old girl who consumed a cannabis-laced gummy. The incident has...
House-Approved Veterans Affairs Budget Bill Ends Prohibition on Medical Cannabis Recommendations
Ganjapreneur - Washington
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July 8, 2025
An amendment in the House-approved budget bill for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) would, for the first time, allow VA doctors to recommend medical cannabis to patients in states where it is legal, Stars and Stripes reports. Currently, VA...
Austintown trustees take a win on marijuana legislation
The Vindicator - Ohio
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AUSTINTOWN — Township trustees already have had one victory from lobbying legislators this month and are hoping for more of the same luck next week. At Monday’s meeting, Trustee Robert Santos said their bid in Columbus to retain funding from...
Kamla proposes chancellor to help Chief Justice
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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July 8, 2025
News Sean Douglas 7 Minutes Ago Kamla Persad-Bissessar - PRIME Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar proposed the creation of a new office-holder to help the chief justice to administer the infrastructure used by the judiciary, addressing the UNC Monday...
How Depersonalisation-Derealisation Disorder Treatment Can Improve Focus and Reduce Brain Fog
Psychreg
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July 7, 2025
6 Reading Time: 7 minutesThat foggy feeling where you can’t think clearly, where your own thoughts feel distant and unfamiliar. It’s more than just a bad day. For those experiencing depersonalisation-derealisation disorder, this mental cloudiness...
Can Weed Labels Be Trusted? It Depends on the Product
Newswise
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July 7, 2025
Newswise — July 7, 2025—Nearly half of cannabis flower products are inaccurately labeled when it comes to potency, with most showing they contain more THC than they really do. Meanwhile, labels on cannabis concentrates tend to be accurate, with...
Acknowledging mistakes might help Ruto government regain public trust
The Standard
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Administration police along muindi mbingu city market guarding the CBD from the Saba Saba protesters in Nairobi on 7th July 2025.[ David Gichuru, Standard] For more than one week, blogger Ndiang'ui Kinyagia made Kenyans incessantly bark up the...
California marijuana industry faces new tax increase, threatening legal market
23 ABC News - California
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July 8, 2025
BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT: California's legal marijuana industry is facing a new challenge as the state excise tax on cannabis increased from 15% to 19% on July 1, potentially driving customers away from licensed dispensaries. Ronald Allen, co-owner of...
India News | Tripura: Three Drug Peddlers Held with over 3 Kg Cannabis at Agartala Railway Station
Latestly
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July 8, 2025
Agartala (Tripura) [India] July 8 (ANI): In a joint operation on late Monday night, the Government Railway Police (GRP) and Railway Protection Force (RPF) apprehended three alleged drug peddlers at Agartala Railway Station and seized 3.24 kg dry...
Argent starts EU-GMP cannabinoid supply for drug resistant epilepsy at Slovenia’s largest hospital
Stockhead
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July 7, 2025
Argent is supplying its EU-GMP cannabinoid-based API to Slovenia’s largest hospital. Pic via Getty Images Argent BioPharma has commenced supply of EU-GMP Cannabinoid API for epilepsy treatment at Slovenia’s largest hospital, the University Medical...
Thai senator pushes cannabis control law, rejects call to reclassify as narcotic after three calm years
Pattaya Mail
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July 7, 2025
Dr. Praphon warns that lack of clear medical guidelines could hinder proper cannabis use, urges urgent law without reclassifying as narcotic. BANGKOK, Thailand – Senator Dr. Praphon Tangsrikietkul, Chair of the Senate Public Health Committee, has...
Medical Cannabis
WellBeing Magazine
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July 8, 2025
Since cultivation of cannabis was legalised in Australia in 2016 for medical purposes (and only with a license), there’s been a surging interest in the product. And not just from the public. Worth an estimated AU$141 million in 2023, and US$21...
Research and education needed as biological market expands
Brownfield Ag News
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News Research and education needed as biological market expands The leader of seed care and biologicals for Syngenta says research and education are needed to help farmers get the most out of new biological crop tools. Quinn Showalter says...
‘Secret shopper’ study finds a lot of Colorado’s weed is weaker than advertised
Colorado Public Radio
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Nearly half of the labels on cannabis plant products recently tested in Colorado misstated the potency, according to a University of Colorado Boulder study published in the journal Scientific Reports. Researchers found that THC...
Appeal filed in Nebraska medical cannabis preemption case
Nebraska Examiner
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July 7, 2025
LINCOLN — A former state senator appealed a second case to the Nebraska Supreme Court seeking to invalidate the state’s voter-approved medical cannabis laws. Former State Sen. John Kuehn of Heartwell, a former member of the State Board of Health...
Argent starts EU-GMP cannabinoid supply
Cairns Post
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July 7, 2025
Argent BioPharma has commenced supply of EU-GMP Cannabinoid API for epilepsy treatment at Slovenia’s largest hospital, the University Medical Centre Ljubljana API supply to UKC commenced following completion of successful pilot program...