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A 76-year-old woman in Washington, DC just won a lawsuit that forbids her neighbor from smoking marijuana inside his own home. What sounds like a local nuisance case has quietly set a national precedent that could reshape every state where marijuana is legal under local law but still banned federally. For five years, Josefa Ippolito-Shepherd …
New Jersey legal weed products contained exponentially higher levels of yeast, mold and bacteria and were often far less potent than advertised, a team of secret shoppers discovered after submitting pre-rolled joints for testing. A study released by the Safe Leaf Society this week calls into question the testing capabilities of cannabis testing laboratories after …
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – For the first time ever, Albuquerque could be offering cash to low-income families. To start, the initiative would benefit those in the international district and southwest Albuquerque. The city could be following other cities across the country in providing “guaranteed income” to low-income families and the funding would come from cannabis …
The results are in, 53 percent to 47 percent, Ohio has a constitutional amendment that legalizes recreational marijuana. https://www.10tv.com/article/news/politics/elections/ohio-issue-2-election-results-2023-marijuana/530-cce0b85c-a42d-4355-b529-4b1c90eb7538 COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio voters approved a measure legalizing recreational marijuana on Tuesday, defying Republican legislative leaders who had failed to pass the proposed law. Passage of Issue 2 makes Ohio the 24th state to allow …