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‘A roof over our people’s heads’: the Indigenous US tribe building hempcrete homes

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 16 April - 13:00

Minnesota’s Lower Sioux Indian Community is pioneering green building with its fully integrated hempcrete facility – a first in the country

When Earl Pendleton first heard about building houses out of hemp more than a decade ago, it seemed like a far-fetched idea.

To start, it was still illegal to grow hemp – the non-psychoactive strain of Cannabis sativa – in the US. Importing it from overseas was prohibitively expensive. But Pendleton, a member of the Lower Sioux Indian Community , was intrigued by early research that showed hemp could be transformed into non-toxic construction materials that allow for faster build times and result in low-carbon, energy-efficient houses.

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Animal tranquilliser found in cannabis vapes and illicit sedatives in UK

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 10 April - 04:00

Xylazine can cause skin ulcers and overdoses and has caused multiple deaths since 2022, warn researchers

People buying cannabis vapes and illicit sedatives to treat pain, anxiety and insomnia risk unknowingly consuming a powerful animal tranquilliser that can cause skin ulcers and overdoses.

Xylazine has been prevalent in the US for several years , where it is commonly found mixed with strong opioids, such as heroin or fentanyl, and has caused thousands of deaths .

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Patients keep asking if they should take cannabis for their cancer. The answer is still no | Ranjana Srivastava

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 1 April - 14:00

Cannabis is not a treatment, let alone a cure for cancer. It is not a substitute for chemotherapy and can cause significant side effects

It’s fair to say my patients were using cannabis long before I knew it was a “thing”.

My first memory of encountering the drug was a decade ago at the bedside of a dying patient. I was about to commence a morphine infusion when a burly man quietly asked me to step outside. Moments later, my apprehension turned to surprise when, tears streaming down his face, the son begged me to wait while his brother procured some cannabis from an underground supplier, “just in case it works”.

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With Germany legalising cannabis, Europe is reaching a tipping point. Britain, take note | Steve Rolles

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 29 March - 07:00

Regulating cannabis use is no longer radical but an increasingly normalised strategy. The ‘tough on drugs’ approach is archaic

Germany’s cannabis reforms were approved this week, overcoming the final legislative hurdle when the Bundesrat, Germany’s upper house, voted through the bill that passed with a huge majority in the Bundestag (lower house) last month. Germany is a significant addition to the growing list of countries defecting from the drug war consensus that had held for more than half a century. More than half a billion people now live in jurisdictions establishing legal adult access to cannabis for recreational use.

When Germany’s new law comes into force on 1 April, it will decriminalise possession of up to 25g of cannabis for personal use (and up to 50g in the home), allow requests to remove criminal records for past possession offences, legalise home growing of up to three cannabis plants for personal use, and establish a regulatory framework for not-for-profit associations within which cannabis can be grown and supplied to members.

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‘They’re all high’: Louisiana police say rats eating marijuana in evidence room

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 12 March - 10:00

New Orleans superintendent tells council committee that rodents have infested the building and requests to move headquarters

Cops in New Orleans are on the tail of a brazen gang of narcotics traffickers who broke into the evidence room at police headquarters and pilfered all the pot: a swarm of rodents with a hankering for the high life.

“The rats are eating our marijuana. They’re all high,” Anne Kirkpatrick, superintendent of the city’s police department, told a council committee meeting on Monday.

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Germany on track to partly legalise cannabis for personal use after heated debate

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 23 February - 05:00

Politicians hope to reclaim market from drug dealers but doctors say it risks young people’s health

Germany’s parliament is expected to partly legalise cannabis on Friday after a heated debate about the pros and cons of allowing easier access to the drug.

Under the new legislation, which will make Germany the third country in Europe to legalise the drug for personal use, cannabis would be removed from the official list of banned substances. Adults would be allowed to possess 25g of it at one time.

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Le cannabis récréatif va bientôt être autorisé en Allemagne

news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Friday, 18 August, 2023 - 10:00

Le pays a donné son feu vert à un projet de loi légalisant la culture et la consommation de cannabis.

Le cannabis récréatif va bientôt être autorisé en Allemagne

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La France interdit officiellement la vente de HHC, le CBD en danger ?

news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Tuesday, 13 June, 2023 - 09:30

La France vient officiellement d'interdire le HHC, un dérivé de synthèse du cannabis jugé addictif.

La France interdit officiellement la vente de HHC, le CBD en danger ?

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Doobie-us: Pot ads come to Twitter amid cannabis industry collapse

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 16 February, 2023 - 17:49

Enlarge / Then-future Technoking Elon Musk enjoying some cannabis on Joe Rogan's podcast. (credit: Joe Rogan)

Elon Musk’s fondness for 420 jokes is well-documented on Twitter , where the CEO loves responding to tweets with comments like “420 haha.” So it makes sense that Musk is well aware of opportunities for cannabis advertisers to reach Twitter users who like tweeting about marijuana as much as he does. It comes as no surprise, then, that Twitter announced yesterday that it would become the weed-friendliest social platform and start allowing some previously restricted cannabis ads to appear in Twitter feeds of users in states that have legalized weed.

“As of today, in certain US states, we have taken measures to relax our cannabis ads policy to create more opportunities for responsible cannabis marketing—the largest step forward by any social media platform,” Alexa Alianiello, Twitter’s lead of ad sales and partnerships, wrote in a blog post.

This policy change sets Twitter apart from other advertising giants like Meta, which bans both CBD and THC ads , and Google, which allows some CBD ads but bans marijuana ads , including instructional content.

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