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Omaha Tribe of Nebraska hopeful about potential medical cannabis impacts
WOWT 6 - Nebraska
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September 4, 2025
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - While a lack of funding, politics, and imminent legal challenges from Nebraska state officials aid in slow-walking Nebraska’s medical cannabis law into reality, there’s another government in the state moving its marijuana laws...
LeafLink Partners with Confia to Boost Cannabis Banking Services
FinTecBuzz
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September 4, 2025
LeafLink, the nation’s leading cannabis wholesale and banking platform, and Confia, a prominent FinTech company, have formed a strategic partnership through which LeafLink acquired customers from Confia’s cannabis banking platform. Confia...
Interior CS Murkomen orders crackdown amid muggings in Nairobi CBD
Citizen TV Kenya
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September 4, 2025
Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen strolls the streets of the Nairobi CBD on June 25, 2025. PHOTO | COURTESY | MINA Audio By Vocalize Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has ordered a major crackdown on muggings in Nairobi, directing...
DRC Army, FDLR and Wazalendo Operated Brothels in IDP Camps, Spread HIV
KT Press Rwanda
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September 4, 2025
5 Interior of a Brothel in Lushagala IDP camp. Photo by ADS research team BUSHAGARA, eastern DRC —The smell of woodsmoke and despair hangs heavy in the air. In a makeshift shelter of fraying tarpaulin and splintered wood, a 17-year-old girl named...
‘Marijuana economy’ worries Tudravu
The Fiji Times
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September 4, 2025
MARIJUANA is becoming a cash crop of choice because of its quick harvesting period and high financial value, says Police Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu. He told the Pacific Regional Tripartite Conference in Nadi yesterday this resulted in the...
Maryland cannabis sales generate more than $18 million in tax revenue
CBS 13 Baltimore - Maryland
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Updated on: September 4, 2025 / 1:32 PM EDT / CBS Baltimore CBS News Live CBS News Baltimore Live Maryland cannabis sales generated about $18.4 million in tax revenue during the third quarter of the 2025 fiscal year, the Maryland Comptroller's...
Experiencing pain? Sanjay Gupta explains why 'It Doesn't Have to Hurt'
NPR Illinois
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September 4, 2025
CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta vividly remembers the day he impaled himself on a wrought iron fence. He had just turned 12, and he was running through the neighborhood when he spontaneously decided to vault over a fence that he...
Proposed Texas Ban On Hemp-Derived THC Dies As Lawmakers Fail To Reach A Compromise
Marijuana Moment
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September 4, 2025
“We looked hard for that common ground and just never could find it. We just don’t see that we can get anything off the House floor.” By Alex Nguyen and Kayla Guo, The Texas Tribune The Texas Legislature ended another legislative overtime round...
Congressional marijuana & hemp amendments to military bill (Newsletter: September 4, 2025)
Marijuana Moment
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September 4, 2025
Trump allies talk cannabis rescheduling: Poll: Marijuana biz not optimistic about reform this year; NE medical marijuana rules Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure...
Will cannabis affect head and neck cancer surgery recovery?
Healio News
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September 4, 2025
September 04, 2025 4 min read Key takeaways: Researchers are investigating whether cannabis use can impact recovery from wounds associated with head and neck cancer surgery. Immunology data also may have an impact on other cancer types. As...
Case Series: Insomnia Patients Report Improved Sleep Quality Following Cannabis Use
NORML
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September 4, 2025
London, United Kingdom: Patients with insomnia report improvements in their sleep quality and reduced anxiety following their use of medical cannabis products, according to data published in the journal PLOS Mental Health. British researchers...
Texas: Medical Cannabis Expansion Bill Takes Effect
NORML
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September 4, 2025
Austin, TX: Legislation took effect Monday, expanding patients’ access to state-qualified medical cannabis products. Under the law, patients diagnosed with chronic pain, Crohn’s disease, traumatic brain injury, and other newly eligible conditions...
City of Seaford removes clause from ordinance, approves sale of marijuana
Laurel Star - Delaware
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September 4, 2025
The Seaford City Council approved the legal sale of marijuana in the city by removing a clause from the original ordinance that allowed it only after the federal government lowered the schedule. Two community members spoke during public comment,...
Psychedelic News: From Marijuana to Magic Mushrooms
Out Front Magazine - Colorado
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September 4, 2025
On November 8, 2022, the colorful state of Colorado became the second state in the United States, after Oregon, to decriminalize the use of psychedelic mushrooms when it passed Proposition 122, The Natural Medicine Health Act. After Colorado...
Dear Doctor: 84-year-old woman with insomnia considers using CBD
OregonLive.com
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September 4, 2025
DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m an 84-year-old woman who has, for years, had trouble falling asleep. Lately I also wake up in the middle of the night and seem to be unable to go back to sleep at times. I have been taking melatonin spray and Ashwagandha...
First-ever cannabis courses at UM begin this spring
The Miami Hurricane - Florida
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September 4, 2025
The public health department will offer its first-ever cannabis-focused undergraduate courses starting next spring. Though housed in the School of Nursing and Health Studies, Cannabis Epidemiology (BPH 370) and The Endocannabinoid System and Human...
Ghana Leaders Warn Public About Fake Cannabis Licensing Schemes
Forbes
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At least 10 countries in Africa have legalized commercial cannabis cultivation or export for medicinal and industrial purposes, including Ghana. A farm worker picks cannabis inside a greenhouse in Kasese, Uganda. (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)...
Artelo’s cancer cachexia drug succeeds in Phase II
Clinical Trials Arena
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September 4, 2025
Artelo Biosciences’ cancer anorexia-cachexia syndrome (CACS) drug has helped patients gain weight in a Phase II trial. During the CAReS study (EudraCT-2020-000464-27), ART27.13, a cannabinoid receptor agonist, was found to trigger weight gain,...
Feeling paranoid? New research unveils cannabis' hidden mental health pitfalls
IOL
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September 3, 2025
For years, cannabis has been embraced as a stress reliever, a pain aid, and for some, even a wellness ritual. It’s often described as “natural” and “safe”, especially compared to alcohol or harder drugs. However, new research is questioning this...
Cannabis Business Leaders Don’t Believe Trump Will Reschedule Pot This Year
Michigan Technology News
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September 4, 2025
WASHINGTON DC – Marijuana business leaders are not optimistic that federal rescheduling will happen this year—though 97 percent said the reform and the resulting federal tax relief are “important” to their “long-term viability”—according to a new...