New Michigan Law Bans Fake Urine To Pass Drug Tests
Legal marijuana consumption in Michigan continues to increase as products designed to help pass drug tests disappears from shelves. Signed into law in July by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the passage of Senate Bill 134 means it is now a misdemeanor punishable by up to a...
Study: Cannabis Consumption Not Linked to Changes in Motivation
Neither adults nor young people who consume cannabis exhibit symptoms of so-called ‘a-motivational syndrome,’ according to case control data published in The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. British researchers assessed...
Florida Company Has Hemp Plan To Save State’s Troubled Citrus Orchards
Farming hemp could help to overcome the devastating effect years of pesticide spraying has brought to Florida’s declining citrus industry, according to a Tarpon Springs-based company that is developing a strategy based on processing of the plant’s stalks. Growing hemp...
Is It Bad To Smoke Weed Every Day?
What are, if any, the negative effects of regular marijuana consumption? Well, according to a comprehensive review published Wednesday in the journal Addiction, cannabis use can lead to small or to moderate acute cognitive impairments...
WEDNESDAY: CRA Education Session: Best Practices from the Enforcement Division
Please join the Cannabis Regulatory Agency Field Operations – Investigations Section of the CRA’s Enforcement Division Sept. 7 at 10 am for a zoom presentation of helpful resources available to licensees. This includes best practices such as making site visits more...
Marijuana Companies Lay Off Hundreds, Retrench Amid Economic Woes
While business around the world shuttered as COVID-19 spread, the marijuana industry was deemed “essential” in nearly 30 states and stood to gain from the pandemic. But more than two years later, amid rising inflation and fears of a recession, North American cannabis...
John Fetterman’s Campaign Says He’ll Press Biden To Finally Decriminalize Marijuana
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for US Senate this year, will pressure Biden on "the need to finally decriminalize marijuana," according to a campaign spokesman Joe Calvello. In a lengthier statement released Monday afternoon, Fetterman...
CRA Upgrades Guidance For marijuana-Infused Non-Edible Product Packaging
The CRA has updated its previous guidance issued on marijuana-infused edibles product packaging to include guidance for marijuana-infused non-edible product packaging. This bulletin can be read in full here. The previous bulletin provided for a period of education...
Spectrum Health No Longer Screening Most New Hires For Marijuana
Spectrum Health, one of the major employers in West Michigan, is no longer screening new hires for marijuana. However, this only applies to most positions. In a statement to 13 ON YOUR SIDE, a spokesperson with the hospital system says: "To reduce barriers to...
Minnesota Expected To Revisit Rules That Opened Legal Window For Delta-8 THC
Minnesota lawmakers are expected to eventually address rules that inadvertently made the state a hotbed for hemp-derived delta-8 THC edibles as a result of a measure passed earlier this year. The measure, which took effect in July, has unintentionally created a shadow...
