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Lucy Files with Health Canada To Manufacture Cocaine, Heroin

Forget ketamine- and MDMA-assisted therapies: A psychedelics manufacturing company is moving forward with cocaine and heroin—with an end goal to fight fentanyl overdoses and drug addiction. British Columbia-based Lucy Scientific Discovery, a psychedelics manufacturing company focused primarily on emerging psychotropics-based medicines, announced today in a press release that it has filed an amendment to its […]

U.S. Senate Committee Approves Bipartisan Marijuana Research Bill Focused On Military Veterans With PTSD And Pain

A U.S. Senate committee approved a bipartisan bill on Thursday to promote marijuana research for military veterans—becoming the first piece of standalone cannabis legislation ever to advance through a committee in the chamber. Because the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee did not have a quorum present to act on the bill and either other veterans measures […]

Ontario Cannabis Store to reduce its margins, estimates change will inject $35M into marketplace

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Ontario Cannabis Store plans to overhaul wholesale markups

The Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) says it is reforming markups on wholesale marijuana at the expense of its own margins in a move meant “to help enable a vibrant cannabis marketplace.” The OCS, which is owned by the Ontario government, has a monopoly on supplying licensed recreational marijuana stores in Canada’s largest provincial cannabis market. ADVERTISEMENT […]

Deceased farmer’s estate not entitled to Florida marijuana license, judge rules

The estate of a Florida applicant for a medical marijuana cultivation license who died before receiving the permit should not receive it in his absence, an administrative judge ruled. The heirs and partners of now-deceased Ocala farmer Moton Hopkins was among a group of spurned applicants who filed legal challenges last October against the health […]

Minnesota Marijuana Legalization Bill Approved In Ninth House Committee

A ninth Minnesota House committee has approved a bill to legalize marijuana—bringing the proposal another step closer on its exhaustive path to the floor as a Senate companion version also advances. This time, the House Education Finance Committee passed the bill, sponsored by Rep. Zack Stephenson (D), in a voice vote. “Minnesotans are ready for […]