Sunday Weed: Weekly Digest, Number Eighty-One

How’s your Sunday? Lazy? Busy? Whatever it is, give yourself a well-deserved break, grab your favorite cannabis product, and dive into the latest weed news. To keep you up to date we gathered seven articles about cannabis from the web. Enjoy your read!

1. With The Rise Of Legal Weed, Drug Education Moves From ‘Don’t’ to ‘Delay’

In a nutshell, the focus now is on facts, not fear. Also conspicuously absent are simplistic dictates like, “Just say no.” Instead, teachers spur students to examine data, speculate on motives, discuss risks, and deliberate on their own goals and values.

2. Pot for All: How Congress Is Trying to Make Weed Legal

From decriminalization to opening up the banking industry, both sides of Congress are preparing cannabis bills – but with much different approaches.

3. Court: Florida ban on smokable medical pot is unconstitutional

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s ban that prevents medical marijuana patients from smoking their cannabis has gone up in smoke.

4. Legalising cannabis ‘could earn Treasury £3.5bn’

Report suggests change to law would generate revenue and cut costs across justice system.

5. Differences Between Medical and Recreational Cannabis

Before 2012, cannabis was available in certain states only to those with qualifying medical conditions. Colorado and Washington changed the game by becoming the first states to legalize recreational cannabis. Today, recreational marijuana begins to be available to general public. Therefore, many have a question: what’s the difference between medical and recreational cannabis?

6. Researchers in Lebanon Hope to Study Medical Benefits of Cannabis

Lebanon is one of the world’s top illegal weed producers. Now, one of its major universities will be studying medical marijuana.

7. 7 Hi-Tech Gadgets to Savvy Up Your Stash

Living in the 21st century has granted us technological advancements never before seen at any time in the history of humanity. And as the medical and science worlds continue to adopt more efficient technology, the cannabis industry has followed suit. Gone are the days of rolling joints by hand or decarbing flower for hours—now’s the time for sci-fi like vaporizers and automatic grinders.

Enjoyed your digest? Let us know.

See you next Sunday!

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