Pot lounges? Why expand a destructive business? | California Focus Since California voters legalized cannabis via a 2016 ballot initiative, the weed has evolved into something like a normal business. It’s complete with webcasts on how to operate efficiently, ... 06/4/2024 - 10:46 pm | View Link
NY may allow liquor shipments to your doorstep. Liquor stores are fighting it Liquor stores lost revenue when New York began allowing wineries to ship directly to consumers two decades ago; their losses could be deeper in today’s digital age, Correra said. “With technology, I ... 06/3/2024 - 5:31 am | View Link
Minnesota regulators destroy $278,000 worth of raw cannabis flower ahead of legal retail sales Some hemp retailers had been selling illegal marijuana until the Office of Cannabis Management created a workaround to regulate raw flower. 05/31/2024 - 8:35 am | View Link
Permanent Pot Store Rules OK'd In West Hartford In 2022, West Hartford approved a temporary ordinance allowing the establishments just before the start of legalized, adult retail sales of recreational cannabis products in the state. For a copy of ... 05/29/2024 - 6:28 am | View Link
South Africa Legalizes Cannabis Use In Private Settings, Says No To Sales And Yes To Home Grow South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law Tuesday the Cannabis for Private Purposes Act (CfPPA), which regulates the cultivation, possession and consumption of marijuana by adults in a ... 05/29/2024 - 1:53 am | View Link
A person in Mexico died after contracting a strain of bird flu that hasn’t been confirmed in humans before, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
The virus was detected in a 59-year-old who had been hospitalized in Mexico City. The person died one week after developing a fever, shortness of breath and diarrhea.
After six long weeks of voting in the grueling heat, India’s election delivered stunning results.
With all of the 640 million votes now counted, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is poised to preside over a rare, third consecutive term in power—making him only the second Indian prime minister to do so after Congress leader Jawaharlal Nehru in 1962.
CAIRO — United Nations agencies warned Wednesday that over 1 million Palestinians in Gaza could experience the highest level of starvation by the middle of next month if hostilities continue.
The World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization said in a joint report that hunger is worsening because of heavy restrictions on humanitarian access and the collapse of the local food system in the nearly eight-month Israel-Hamas war.
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It says the situation remains dire in northern Gaza, which has been surrounded and largely isolated by Israeli troops for months.
U. S. intelligence officials are issuing a stark warning to America’s former “Top Gun” pilots: Don’t help China.
A new threat bulletin issued Wednesday warns that China’s People’s Liberation Army “continues to target” current and former Western fighter pilots to help teach Chinese pilots how to master one of the hardest maneuvers in aviation: taking off and landing on aircraft carriers.
FLORENCE, Italy — An Italian court reconvicted Amanda Knox of slander on Wednesday, even after she was exonerated in the brutal 2007 murder of her British roommate while the two were exchange students in Italy.
The court found that Knox had wrongly accused an innocent man, the Congolese owner of the bar where she worked part time, of the killing.
Hong Kong, the Chinese enclave that’s still struggling to revive its tourism economy post-pandemic and in the wake of a Beijing-influenced crackdown on civil liberties, has taken a new approach to wooing visitors: curbing its residents’ reputation for rudeness.
Earlier this week, the city government launched a new campaign to promote politeness.