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Tue
13
Jun

Trump Tuesday: Chuck Schumer Trolls Trump with Parody of Cabinet Meeting

The parody starts at 1:27 above.

Minutes after President Trump's first full, public Cabinet meeting Monday, Sen. Chuck Schumer tweeted a short video parodying the roundtable. 

The 25-second video features the minority leader surrounded by his sycophantic staff.

"I want to thank everyone for coming. I just thought we'd go 'round the room," Schumer says.

Tue
13
Jun

How Mobile Video Technology is Changing the Cannabis Industry

Few inventions in history have changed the world to the extent that video has. From movies to TV to instant video streaming and sharing on the Internet, for the most part, our lives revolve around the capabilities and limitations of what we can do with video.

Video has also changed the face of security. Video surveillance has come a long way from that camera you saw on the ceiling at the bank when you were a kid. Now, thanks to the Internet and advancing technology, video can be recorded and streamed from wherever you can get a web connection.

Tue
13
Jun

Jeff Sessions Asks Congress to End Medical Cannabis Protections

When President Donald Trump signed a $1.1 trillion spending bill last month, he seemed to scoff at a provision that prevents the Justice Department from prosecuting state-legal medical cannabis. Now his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, wants to do away with the protection completely.

Tue
13
Jun

This Firefighter Took A Doctor’s Advice To Use Medical Marijuana — Now He Could Be Fired

Medical marijuana is off-limits for police officers, firefighters, truck drivers, and millions of other workers in safety-sensitive jobs, even in states where it’s legal. These employees face a tough choice: Live with pain, or lose their job.

Brad Wiltshire doesn’t like to complain, but to talk to him is to understand how much pain he is in. Dystonia, the disorder that he was diagnosed with a decade ago, causes muscles in the 56-year-old’s face to fight against each other, so his voice is strained and agitated, even when he’s not.

Tue
13
Jun

Legalising Marijuana Will Boost California's Economy by $5 Billion, Study Finds

A measure is passing through the state legislature.

The economy of California - poised to create a market for legal marijuana - could see its economy boosted by as much as $5bn, according to a new study.

The report by the University of California Agricultural Issues Centre, says that the legalisation of the drug will provide the state a further reason for tourists - or at least some tourists - to visit.

Tue
13
Jun

New Mexico's Contentious 'Pot Powwow'

A cannabis company believes the pot industry could save tribal nations from poverty. But many argue it would only make a drug problem worse.

“You going to Gathering this year?”

Most Native people have heard this question. Short for the Gathering of Nations, the “Gathering” is the largest powwow in North America—one of few pan-Indian cultural fixtures shared by nearly every indigenous group on the continent. Thousands of people from hundreds of tribal nations show up in Albuquerque each year to experience it.

Tue
13
Jun

As New York Relaxes Cannabis Rules, Industry Wants In

Eager to get in on what’s expected to be a booming industry, cannabis companies and investors are beginning to flock to New York state. It’s a trend that could pick up even more steam after lawmakers in Albany gathered Monday to announce a renewed push to legalize adult-use cannabis.

State Sen. Liz Krueger (D-New York) and Rep. Crystal Peoples-Stokes (D-Buffalo), along with advocates organized by the Drug Policy Alliance, held a press conference about the reintroduction of the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA). The legislation, S.3040/A.3506, would tax and regulate cannabis in a fashion similar to alcohol.

Tue
13
Jun

Pot Pharm: An Inside Look at the Company Making Prescription Drugs from Marijuana

Meet GW Pharmaceuticals, the British drug company whose CBD-based medication for seizures just passed phase III clinical trials and may be the first tried-and-true prescription cannabis drug.

Can marijuana be made into a tried-and-true prescription medication, one that could be covered by health insurance? According to results from a recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, yes, it most certainly can.

Tue
13
Jun

Will Philadelphia Eliminate Marijuana Drug Testing?

Philadelphia’s Mayor, who said marijuana drug testing keeps people out of the job market, is open to talking about alternatives.

Philadelphia government can’t legalize marijuana but it does have the flexibility to make life easier for cannabis consumers by, for example, banning the THC drug test for certain jobs, or, at the very least, prohibiting employers from testing potential employees until a conditional job offer is made, similar to the ban-the-box movement which favors returning citizens.

Mon
12
Jun

SinglePoint to develop a safe Bitcoin payment solution for the cannabis industry

SinglePoint and First Bitcoin Capital (FBC) signed a Joint Venture agreement to develop and distribute a proprietary payments solution which will allow large-scale, risk-free use of credit and debit cards within the Cannabis industry.

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