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This week on the podcast, Hayley and I have a fascinating conversation with physician and Harvard Medical School instructor
Dr. Peter Grinspoon. We discuss how the medical establishment thinks about MED, the opioid crisis and Grinspoon's father, Dr. Lester Grinspoon, a hero of the legalization movement. In addition to his professional expertise, the younger Dr. Grinspoon became addicted to opioids while working as a doctor an experience he describes in his book
Free Refills: A doctor confronts his addiction. The episode lands Monday at 4:20 p.m. Pacific.
Previous episodes feature:
-Episode 4 L.A. cannabis Business attorney
Ariel Clark on what cannabis entrepreneurs need to know
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The 2018 U.S. midterm elections are coming.
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Six unsuccessful applicants
have sued the state
(Cleveland.com) in a lawsuit which alleges scoring errors, regulators who failed to follow their own rules and outside “scoring consultants” with blatant conflicts of interest.
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Oakland megadispensary
Harborside stood up to Hershey’s
after the confectioner called Harborside strain Jolly Meds a trademark infraction on Jolly Ranchers candy.
Hershey’s quickly caved. “We stood up to the federal Department of Justice,” Harborside founder Steve DeAngelo said, “We are certainly not going to be intimidated by a candy company.”
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The SEC
suspended
Cherubim Interests and Victura Construction Corp., two cannabis penny stocks which tried to exploit interest in cryptocurrency.
Quebec cannabis grower Agro-Biotech
agreed to merge
with Vancouver-based Pivot Pharmaceuticals in a C$100M deal.
Pot grow sensor platform Braingrid
raised C$2.6M
ahead of going public in Canada.
Girl Scouts
won the OK
to sell cookies outside dispensaries.
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U.S. House Rules Committee Chair Pete Sessions -- no relation to AG Jeff -- who’s among the most anti-pot legislators in Washington,
said marijuana use leads to opiate addiction
, a claim largely unsupported in the medical literature.
Marijuana
“merchants of addiction...are making it more powerful and more powerful and more powerful," Sessions said. "When I went to high school ... in 1973, I graduated, marijuana, on average, is 300 times more powerful. That becomes an addictive element for a child to then go to the next thing."
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Speaking before an Ontario high school, a cop warned boys that smoking pot would
cause them to grow “boobies.”
Buzzfeed says there’s “not much scientific support” for the long-rumored link between cannabis and gynecomastia.
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Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner (D)
dropped 51 cases
of individuals charged with pot possession. He also said he will
end cash bail
for minor crimes.
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Pierce County, Wash., authorities
seized $250,000 worth of weed
from what they said was an illegal MED market. A video of the raid went viral when a cop blocked a camera filming him and arrested the filmer, a shop employee.
Phillipine President Rodrigo Duterte
extended the term
of the national police chief leading the nation’s brutal drug war.
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NBA players union head Michele Roberts says she
supports players’ access to MED
. “If we do go down that road, we have to protect our players from — my words — a crazed attorney general who says he will prosecute violations of the law involving marijuana and he doesn’t care what individual states say,” she added.
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