While we don’t know everything about this ancient empire, we do know women worked with medicine and magic, and that cannabis may have played a part.

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You Can Still Get Busted By Police For Smoking Hemp

Since CBD flower looks and smells like marijuana, anyone living in states where weed remains illegal runs the risk of police harassment if they’re caught with it.

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Despite multiple setbacks and delays, Maine officials are reporting optimism for the state’s adult-use cannabis market.

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Indoor spaces with poor ventilation make it easier for the spread of COVID-19. What does this mean for AC units?

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What You Should Know About Air Conditioning And Coronavirus

Indoor spaces with poor ventilation make it easier for the spread of COVID-19. What does this mean for AC units?

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A BirchBox of buds. A FabFitFun of flower. It’s a thing!

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The former rapper known as Loon was released from prison this week thanks to the efforts of prison reform advocates.

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Basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson is now in the CBD business, joining the ranks of famous athletes like Mike Tyson, Al Herrington, and Paul Pierce who have recently become weed business moguls. 

Magic Johnson Enterprises just announced a partnership with Uncle Bud’s Hemp & CBD, a US-based medical cannabis firm. Uncle Bud’s sells over 70 different hemp and CBD products, including oils, topical creams, face masks, and even hand sanitizer. The company has experienced consistent growth since it was founded in 2018, and its products are now sold in chain stores like the Vitamin Shoppe and Urban Outfitters.

The company has already received celebrity endorsements from Jane Fonda and Toni Braxton, but the new partnership will help Uncle Bud’s expand its focus to athletes. “Magic Johnson Enterprises is focused on identifying category leaders with quality products that are at an affordable price,” Johnson said in a press release. “Garrett [Greller, co-founder of Uncle Bud’s] has proven the effectiveness of the products and the company’s commitment to serving diverse communities.”

Greller said that his own personal struggle with chronic pain inspired him to start the business. After traditional doctors were unable to treat his early-onset arthritis with conventional techniques, Greller helped develop a CBD-based topical pain reliever that ended up becoming Uncle Bud’s first product.

Johnson told Business Insider that Garrett’s story drew him to get involved with the company. “The fact that he had arthritis at an early age, and he had that problem, but he found a solution for that problem,” the athlete explained. “I’m the same type of guy. I like to find solutions to problems. He created this unbelievable company, Uncle Bud’s, but it just wasn’t a solution for him. He found a solution for a lot of people.”

The former Laker added that his own personal use of Uncle Bud’s products also inspired the partnership. “I power walk five days a week, so my knees be killing me after I’m done,” Johnson said. To recover, the athlete said that he uses the company’s CBD roll-on “on my knees as well as my lower back, because it gets tight, and it’s helped me out a lot.”

Johnson said that he primarily uses CBD “because of the pain relief” and has been using these products even more frequently during the COVID-19 quarantine. “During the pandemic you use it more because of the fact that I can work out more. I’m at home more.” 

The market for athlete-focused CBD products has grown exponentially in recent years. Clinical studies have found that CBD does a great job at managing symptoms of chronic pain and inflammation, and these properties have made it a popular workout recovery tool for athletes. The World Anti-Doping Agency officially removed CBD from its list of prohibited substances in 2018, and pro MMA athletes are even participating in clinical trials to determine how CBD could help them recover from injuries.

5 Hacks To Prolong That Marijuana High

There are a few tricks out there that can help you make your highs more intense whenever you light up.

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In a speech addressing how systemic racism and racial inequity lead to economic inequality, presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said cannabis-related criminal records unfairly block future life opportunities, particularly in the case of people and communities of color.  

To help remove those barriers and reverse that damage, Biden said the federal government should support states’ efforts to seal and expunge pot records in the form of money, technology, and other assistance.

“Right now, that criminal record is the weight that holds back too many people of color, and many whites as well,” Biden said. He urged more states to “recognize the significant costs to their economy when people with certain non-violent criminal records can’t fully contribute to their full talents and capacity.”

Further, the path to expungement needs to be clear, the presidential nominee added. But, at present, it isn’t. “Even when the states want to give that person a second chance and seal or expunge a certain non-violent criminal record,” Biden said, “the record keeping-systems are so outdated, they don’t know how to do it.”

If elected president, Biden said he would provide federal aid to states looking to institute an automated process of expungement. He also released a detailed plan as to how this would happen.

“Under my plan,” Biden said, “if a state decides it wants to implement an automated system for the sealing and expunging of certain nonviolent criminal records, if a state chooses to do that, the federal government will help put together the process and allow them the money to be able to know how to organize to do that. That’s what racial equity in our economy looks like.”

In the plan itself, Biden states that federal aid “will advance a pathway for redemption and re-entry — and make real the possibility of second chances for all Americans — by helping states modernize their criminal justice data infrastructure and adopt automated record sealing for selected categories of non-violent offenses, to modernize their criminal justice data infrastructure, so those records are not used to deny people jobs, housing, voting rights, school loans and other opportunities to rebuild their lives.”

Still, Biden remains opposed to federal legalization of cannabis for adult use. Instead, he favors expungements (obviously), along with decriminalization, federally legalizing medical cannabis, and letting each state enact its own pot policies.