Frankfort Finally Gets NORML: The Inaugural Kentucky Cannabis Conference March 2024

Frankfort Finally Gets NORML: The Inaugural Kentucky Cannabis Conference March 2024

Written By Dan Isenstein

Spanning 3 days, March 7-9, the conference featured 26 exhibitors/presenters and attracted over 145 paid attendees. That included healthy attendance from legislators and state regulatory employees making use of free admission, and it is safe to say that the inaugural Kentucky Cannabis Conference was an unqualified success.

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My Journey Through Life With Cannabis: How Did I Get Here? The 80s: Disco, Big Hair & A Baby

My Journey Through Life With Cannabis: How Did I Get Here? The 80s: Disco, Big Hair & A Baby

Written By Kim Cooper

I moved to West Virginia in 1981 when I was 18. By then I was consuming cannabis daily, all day long. I was a bong girl, never really cared too much for joints, which always made me cough. Still very rebellious and struggling with issues of abandonment, I never gave much thought from one moment to the next about what I was doing or if it was safe. I was partying, carefree as far as the world knew, but not so much on the inside.

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Dissecting Biden’s Statements on Federal Marijuana Reform

Dissecting Biden’s Statements on Federal Marijuana Reform

Written By Bri Smith

A statement Americans and cannabis advocates have said for literally decades was finally uttered by President Biden yesterday during his statements addressing federal marijuana reform. The phrase was both welcomed and yet infuriating for advocates who have been fighting for federal cannabis reform since Harry J. Anslinger preemptively ruined the lives of millions of people. Indeed, for 15 years short of a century, we’ve been shouting from the mountaintops, “It makes no sense”... and also, “What the fuck is going on?”.

For many Americans, it was a monumental day in the United States. In what is likely one of the biggest steps toward federal acceptance and decriminalization of cannabis by any president, Biden declared three areas of action for his (more on this later) failed approach to the War on Cannabis.

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