Weednesday December 2 2020
Happy Hempday
In today's report:
Conservativee Groups Call For #marijuana Legalization Ahead Of House Vote
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Top #representatives from a coalition of four conservative organizations are calling on Congress to federally legalize marijuana as a broad cannabis reform bill advances to a House floor vote this week.
Most of the groups are limiting their support to the major thrust of the proposal to #deschedule #cannabis and let states set their own policies without intervention, however, rather that embracing the full scope of the legislation that includes social equity provisions and a tax on cannabis that have been challenged by select Republican members.
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CBD Doesn’t Impair Driving, Landmark Study Finds, While THC’s Effects Fade In Hours
Similar doses of THC, meanwhile, were associated with short-term impairment “modest in magnitude and similar to that seen in drivers with a 0.05%” blood alcohol concentration, the study found. After about four hours, signs of marijuana impairment faded.
The University of Sydney-led experiment is the latest to study the effects of cannabis consumption on drivers, an issue of growing public concern as more jurisdictions around the world remove laws against the plant and its chemical components.
“The results should reassure people using CBD-only products that they are most likely safe to drive, while helping patients using THC-dominant products to understand the duration of impairment,” said Iain McGregor, academic director of the university’s Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics
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Smoking cigarettes and cannabis is banned in common spaces such as stairwells and hallways under California law and many landlords completely prohibit tenants from smoking inside. The new city law makes it illegal for anyone living in a multi-unit building to smoke indoors. Similar laws are on the books in 63 other California cities.
https://www.ganjapreneur.com/cannabis-excluded-from-san-francisco-apartment-smoking-ban/