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Feb 25
Report – New report on kush highlights West Africa’s growing synthetic drugs challenge — and Europe’s and China’s role

Since 2022, a synthetic drug known as ‘kush’, has killed likely thousands of people in West Africa. Kush emerged in Sierra Leone, but quickly spread across countries in the subregion, including Liberia, Guinea, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, with devastating effects. By April 2024, the health impacts of kush, a synthetic drug containing nitazenes, opioids […]

Feb 25
Michigan: Compliance Best Practice Document Updated

ebruary 24, 2025 – Today, the Cannabis Regulatory Agency released the latest iteration of its Best Practice Document for licensees. The newly updated version – which includes more information, links, and videos to assist licensees with maintaining compliance – now has a searchable table of contents and similar items are grouped together for better organization. General questions – or […]

Feb 25
Magic Mushrooms: Do They Really Have Legitimate Therapeutic Purposes?

There have been many substances over the years that the federal government feels should have an illegal designation. However, not all of them seem to have quite the devastating effects that propaganda films would have you believe. For instance, you only have to look at movies like Reefer Madness to see the outsized hysteria that […]

Feb 25
OH: Warren city council considers resolution against proposed changes to Ohio recreational marijuana law… it’ll send tax revenues to the center

If passed, SB 56 would redirect all tax revenue from sales to the state’s general revenue fund. WFMJ reports Members of Warren City Council are being asked to approve a resolution opposing state legislation to change Ohio’s recently enacted recreational marijuana law. Councilman at Large Michael O’Brien and Third Ward Councilman Greg Greathouse are sponsoring […]

Feb 25
Former Democratic congressional candidate Barbara Gaskins files civil rights complaints with N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson’s office & U.S. Department of Justice “over the state’s puzzling marijuana laws”

WFAE North Carolina is one of the strictest states in the nation for regulating marijuana. Even medical use is prohibited. But the state has a legal, freewheeling, and totally open market for smokable cannabis products with psychoactive effects. Stores openly sell THC-A (tetrahydrocannabinolic acid) products. Billboards advertising cannabis delivery services are plastered all over the […]

Feb 25
Husch Blackwell – Podcast: Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Cannabis and Hemp Federal and State Advocacy in 2025

Chris Lindsey’s origin story in cannabis is a legendary one. He was once a practicing attorney that felt the strong arm of the federal government firsthand when he was charged and prosecuted by U.S. attorneys for drug crimes by virtue of advising cannabis clients on compliance with Montana law and participating in the Montana cannabis […]