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Five sat down to lunch. Only two would survive
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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July 7, 2025
Two years ago, Erin Patterson was a mother of two from a regional town who lived a quiet life. Among her small circle of friends she was known as an internet "super sleuth" who participated in true crime Facebook discussion groups. She'd had some...
ALEA Targeting Illegal Marijuana Sales Across Multiple Cities
The Bibb Voice - Alabama
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July 4, 2025
PRESS RELEASE On Monday, June 23, Special Agents with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), in coordination with the Alabama Attorney General’s Office, the 12th and 19th Judicial Circuit District...
Medicinal Cannabis Authority: A New Era for Economic Growth and Public Health
Win Media SKN
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July 4, 2025
by Kevon Browne St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN) – The Government of Saint Kitts and Nevis officially launched the Medicinal Cannabis Authority on Friday, April 25, 2025. The launch marked a pivotal step in establishing a comprehensive, well-regulated...
COLUMN: Marijuana: The high cost of getting high
The Andalusia Star-News - Alabama
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July 4, 2025
Published 7:30 am Friday, July 4, 2025 Weed, gas, dope, spice, grass, green, hash, ganja, etcetera. There’s plenty of nicknames for it, and most names denote potency, purity, and properties. But no matter what you call it, the facts stay the same:...
Youth Parliament compares unsupervised cannabis cultivation to ‘handing unsupervised firearms’ to every household
The Antigua Observer
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July 4, 2025
- Advertisement - By Robert Andre Emmanuel [email protected] ‘Leaving marijuana unchecked in the household around minors is no different from handing a licence to obtain a firearm to every household which is unsupervised.’ That was the core...
Vaping devices that conceal cannabis use set off alarms
Caribbean National Weekly
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July 4, 2025
The e-cigarette trend is setting off alarm bells. Products designed to look like everyday items help users conceal drug use and pose challenges to preventing substance abuse among a demographic that has gravitated toward vaping — adolescents....
S5 Ep21: The future of ag education, with Prof Jim Pratley
Beef Central
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July 4, 2025
Jim Pratley Professor Jim Pratley is one of Australia’s best known ag educators, with a distinguished five-decade career in academia and teaching in the ag field. In this wide ranging discussion with Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan, he...
Canada Legal Cannabis Market Report 2025 Expansion Of Cannabis 2.0 And 3.0 Products Reshaping Consumer Preferences And Driving Growth - Competition, Forecast & Opportunities To 2030
MENAFN
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July 4, 2025
(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) Market opportunities in Canada's legal cannabis sector include increasing demand for recreational cannabis, the growth of medical cannabis usage, and the introduction of innovative Cannabis 2.0 and 3.0 products...
LDWF Targets Giant Salvinia with Black & Clear Lake Drawdown
Talk Radio 960AM - Louisiana
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July 7, 2025
Giant Salvinia has to be one of the greatest threats ever for Northwest Louisiana lakes. This invasive weed, left unchecked, would leave these waters totally unnavigable and essentially in ruins. Photo from the Bossier Parish Police Jury Photo...
What Was Lost in Altadena: An American Oasis
New York Mag
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July 7, 2025
Bearman and his brother, Ethan, in the woods in Altadena, 1984. Photo: Courtesy of the subject The Eaton Fire started at the location of my first kiss. We used to park on the shaded lane across from the mountains and sneak past a cliffside house,...
Cannabis Dispensaries Bud, Bloom Around Ithaca
Cornell Daily Sun - New York
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July 2, 2025
Three new cannabis dispensaries opened across Tompkins County over the last few months. The area boasts more cannabis licenses than Syracuse and Binghamton despite having a lower population. The City of Ithaca is bustling with cannabis capital, so...
Covid-19 Inquiry: Business leader says future vaccine mandates won't work
RNZ
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July 7, 2025
Auckland CBD during the level 4 lockdown. Photo: RNZ / Jordan Bond Business leaders from Auckland and Northland have spoken about the profound impacts on small to medium businesses coping with public health restrictions during the Covid-19...
Cannabis oil might help with drug-resistant epilepsy, study suggests
PsyPost
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July 2, 2025
A case study of 19 individuals with drug-resistant epilepsy who used cannabis oil found that the median duration of seizure freedom after starting treatment was 245 days. Five patients remained continuously seizure-free for more than a year. The...
Sparc Hydrogen, University of Adelaide awarded $2.75 million AEA grant to support direct solar-to-hydrogen technology work
Australian Manufacturing
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July 4, 2025
Sparc Hydrogen and the University of Adelaide were awarded $2.75 million under the Australia’s Economic Accelerator (AEA) Innovate program, with the grant to support activities around the company’s photocatalytic water splitting (PWS) reactor...
Cannabix Technologies partners with Winnipeg CEM
Grow Opportunity
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July 2, 2025
Enters contract manufacturing agreement with Price Industries for BreathLogix Devices July 2, 2025, Vancouver and Winnipeg, Man. — Cannabix Technologies Inc., a Vancouver-based developer of marijuana and alcohol breath devices has selected Price...
Workers that are hard to bleat: Goats provide weed control and fire mitigation in Grand Junction
The Daily Sentinel - Colorado
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Pedestrians and bicyclists along the Colorado Riverfront Trail in Grand Junction may have noticed something out of the ordinary this spring. In some fenced-off sections near Blue Heron Lake, 700 goats are grazing on an array of invasive species...
Rise in N.Y. adult cannabis use could spark public consumption debate
Spectrum News NY1 - New York
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July 4, 2025
As the number of New York adults who regularly use recreational cannabis trends upward, groups looking to curb the increase plan to pressure state leaders to restrict public consumption and reduce adverse health risks. New Yorkers over age 18 who...
The Double Standard of Smoking Marijuana
Utne Reader
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Marijuana is Safer (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2013) by Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert poses the question: Why do we punish adults who make the rational, safer choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol? In this updated version, the...
Thailand reverses ruling on cannabis, making it illegal to be bought without prescription
FTN News
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July 3, 2025
In 2022, Thailand became the first country in Asia to remove marijuana from its list of illegal narcotics. Cannabis was decriminalised even earlier for medical use in 2018, before being approved for recreational use in 2022. Since then, tens of...
Mid-Year Webinar Roundup: Cannabis Research, Regulation, and Innovation in 2025
Cannabis Science & Technology
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July 3, 2025
These five articles cover webinars presented in 2025 from multiple individuals, organizations, and stakeholders in the cannabis industry. 1. Highlights from the May 2025 Healer Webinar on Cannabis Research On May 21, 2025, Dustin Sulak, an...