Thursday October 15 2020
In todays report:
Cory Booker Presses Supreme Court Nominee On Marijuana Criminalization And War On Drugs
click here for the link to the video on youtube
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) raised the issue of racial disparities in marijuana enforcement and the broader war on drugs during his questioning of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Wednesday.
The senator, an outspoken advocate for cannabis reform, was making the point that those racial inequities are part of a systemic problem in the U.S. judicial system that has marginalized and often disenfranchised communities of color.
questioning of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett
Don’t Expect Results On Saturday’s New Zealand Marijuana Legalization Vote For A Few Weeks
Kim Dotcom Promises To Free Education and Decriminalize Weed
https://hightimes.com/news/politics/kim-dotcom-promises-to-free-education-and-decriminalize-weed/
Under the Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill, unveiled by the government in April, adults would be able to purchase and possess marijuana, cultivate two plants for personal use and visit cannabis “coffee shops” where on-site consumption would be allowed.
If approved, New Zealand would become only the third country in the world with a national law allowing legal marijuana sales, after Uruguay and Canada. A handful of other nations have policies that allow possession and home cultivation.
We won’t count referendum votes on election night,” the nation’s Electoral Commission says. Instead, preliminary results for the cannabis referendum, as well as a separate ballot question on end of life choices, will be posted on October 30. The final results for the ballot measures and the general election will be declared on November 6.
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Hemp businesses look to blockchain to provide transparency to customers
Marijuana track-and-trace systems commonly include basic information, not comprehensive safety data, Brobyn said.
“When you start talking to larger buyers, they demand that level of transparency,” he said.
“One of the things we saw in the U.S. market is there’s a trust deficit on cannabis products,” said James Brobyn, CEO of American Fiber Company, which owns Candelay Industries, a distribution firm that imports CBD oil from Colombia and Jamaica.