NUGS News and Press, Cannabis Strategic Ventures From 06/21/22

Marijuana is rarely on the table whenever discussions of climate change are underway. However, as the world grapples with the effects of decades of greenhouse emissions and runaway climate change, cannabis growers will find that they have to adapt. It is essentially the same issue that has...

Earlier this week, the Biden Administration announced that individuals who would like to intern at the White House would be required to disclose any previous drug use. This is despite repeated requests to stop penalizing employees who admit to past use of cannabis. A new White House Inte...

By the start of 2022, more than 30 states had legalized medical marijuana. Research has found that cannabis can be quite effective at alleviating medical conditions such as chronic pain, insomnia and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, medical marijuana isn’t always cheap;...

America’s criminal justice system has never been kind to minorities. Long before the drug war wrought untold havoc on the Black community, people of color were much more likely to run afoul of the law , even if they were innocent or had committed the same crime as a White individual....

An official in Maryland is asking that the Department of Justice formally investigate the system of reporting used by the FBI for local and state cannabis arrests. The key issue is the confusion among agencies of law enforcement on the issuance of citations for the possession of marijuana ...

Earlier last week, voters in the state of Georgia approved the language of a ballot measure expressing support for the legalization of adult-use marijuana. Democratic Party leadership in the state placed a number of nonbinding advisory questions on the primary election ballot to help infor...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse is seeking new partners that can supply cannabis for study purposes. Last week, the federal drug agency posted a notice on its website for organizations authorized by the DEA to grow marijuana that could acquire or produce marijuana and related material...

In November 2020, residents in New Jersey voted to legalize marijuana in the state. The next year, Gov. Phil Murphy signed three legislations on the legalization of cannabis. In April of this year, recreational retail stores in the state opened their doors to the public, making New Jersey ...

Bright Green Corp., a Florida-based cannabis company, made history last week by being the first “plant-touching” company to list its shares on a major securities exchange within the United States. The company, which boasts of being in possession of conditional approval from the...

During a press briefing earlier this week, Rep. Earl Blumenauer revealed that he was optimistic about the possibility of including cannabis banking reforms in the final version of the large-scale manufacturing bill that will soon be signed into law. The Congressman has championed for marij...