Sunday Weed: Weekly Digest, Number Eighty-Six

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 on the web. Enjoy your read!

1. Why (and how) California is destroying mountains of weed

For the first six months of the year, the state has allowed dispensaries to sell product that isn’t yet up to new code so manufacturers can adjust to the changes. Any of these noncompliant concentrates or edibles or simple flowers left on store shelves as of July 1 have to be destroyed.

2. Snoop Dogg invests $10 million in British weed company with Patrick Stewart

Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies invests in research in pain and inflammation therapies, cancer treatments, and remedies for gastrointestinal diseases.

3. Massachusetts and Vermont: What You Can and Can’t Do With Weed Now

July has arrived, and it means that residents in Massachusetts and Vermont get to enjoy legal cannabis. In Massachusetts, though, no retail cannabis stores have opened yet, but in Vermont, people can start to cultivate right now (sorry, Vermont, you won’t get retail stores yet).

4. Congress Calls On VA To Study Medical Marijuana To Treat PTSD

In California, where marijuana is legal under state law, veterans are advocating for its use to treat service-related disorders such as PTSD and chronic pain.

5. California: Cannabis Businesses Ask To Delay Testing Rules

Nearly 150 marijuana businesses in California warned Friday that they could face crippling financial losses unless the state extends a July 1 deadline imposing strict standards for pot testing and packaging.

6. Can You Smoke Weed In Antarctica?

The 7th continent may be the most pot-friendly place on the planet.

7. The Internet Thinks Quebec’s Weed Logo Looks Like a Butthole

Allow us to introduce you to Quebec’s logo for its provincial cannabis distributor. Fortunately and unfortunately, some people are saying it looks like a butthole.

Enjoyed your digest? Let us know.
See you next Sunday!

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