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Vice President Kamala Harris' (Democratic) presidential campaign announced on Monday that if she wins the election, she will federally legalize marijuana. The announcement was made through a campaign agenda update that focused on the vice president's plan to “serve Black men and their families.” According to the campaign, the five-part plan includes “legalizing recreational marijuana and creating opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry,” and that legalization policies would “legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry.” “It breaks down the unjust legal barriers that hold back Americans like the…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A retired Navy veteran from Covington has been arrested and detained in Dubai on suspicion of possessing medically prescribed CBD pills.Charles Wimberly told Channel 2's Tom Regan: “They've now given me a travel ban. They're basically saying I'm trafficking drugs along with prescription drugs. body,” he said.Wimberly said a doctor in Georgia prescribed CBD and prescription-strength ibuprofen for his chronic back pain.(Download: Free WSB-TV News app to notify you of breaking news)Surgery is scheduled for this month.He was vacationing in Dubai for a week with friends.On September 27, he was at an airport checkpoint to…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – An Anchorage company that claims to provide “world-class technology solutions for businesses of all sizes” has been named a finalist for the Managed Protection Services (MSP) Titans of Industry Award.Like other MSPs, DenaliTEK aims to solve technology problems on the front end without the client knowing. At least that's the goal.“It's our duty to reduce reactive noise and prevent problems before they happen, because while our customers are better off if we can do that, we're actually better off too.” said Todd Clark, Founder and CEO of DenaliTEK. He said this in 2001.The MSP Titans of…
Mayoral candidate Aaron Wood says Melbourne's live music scene is suffering a “crisis of confidence” and has vowed to reinstate the coronavirus-era Melbourne Money Program if elected.The return will allow attendees to claim a 20 per cent rebate on food, beverage and live entertainment costs when spending between $50 and $500 at small and medium-sized venues across Melbourne.Events at stadiums, arenas and major theaters are excluded.Wood said $5 million will be invested in the program.Previous iterations of Melbourne Money between the city council and the state government have delivered a $100 million economic boost to businesses in the city as…
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – Just after midnight, a local business, CBD American Shaman of Lubbock, was broken into by two unknown men. Owner Jennifer Garza said the break-in made a difficult year even more difficult for her and her business. Since opening in 2018, the locally-owned store has opened five times.”I just don't understand why, when the economy is so bad right now, so many people think that if they own their own business they have a lot of money and it doesn't matter and they can recover. No. That’s not the case,” Garza said. “I have a family and…
Illinois opened 82 new cannabis stores last fiscal year, marking “explosive growth” in dispensaries in an industry that generated more than $2 billion in sales, the state reported.State regulators said in their 2024 annual report that “socially just” marijuana business owners, or those who come from poor communities or those most affected by the drug war, are now in 220 states across the state. He proudly stated that he owned almost half of the pharmacies.But social equity owners say they remain on the margins of the industry because the state favors large, long-established companies. According to the state's disparities report,…
Mike Flynn's foray into the legal marijuana business in central New York has been more successful than expected.Now he wants to spread that success across the state.He said his retail business, Flinstoned Cannabis Co., located in Syracuse's Armory Square, generated $30 million in gross sales in its first year, from June 2023 to June 2024. He said he expected annual sales to be about $7 million or $8 million.He is currently working on opening two more FlynnStoned shops. One will be located at the former Popes Grove Golf Course on State Fair Boulevard in Lakeland, with a temporary location during…
Deformation of the matrix around NK92 immune cells as they migrate through the 3D collagen gel (arrows). Credit: Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg To reach targets such as tumors, immune cells must leave the bloodstream or lymph vessels and travel through connective tissue. Previously, scientists assumed that immune cells constantly change their shape and thus move through tissues through the smallest pores and openings. Using a new measurement method, researchers at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) were able to determine that immune cells also exert traction on surrounding tissues in order to pass through particularly narrow pores. Ta. Their results were published…
New Delhi: India is scheduled to announce its national biodiversity target at the 2024 United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16) scheduled to be held in Colombia from October 21 to November 1. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF), a multilateral treaty aimed at halting and reversing biodiversity loss by 2030, was adopted at its 15th session in December 2022. Ta. “Planning for 2030 is international. It is not the responsibility of individual countries. In 1974 we had nine parks on 9,000 square kilometers. We have expanded that to 58,000 square kilometers. In 30 years , the number of…
Vice President Kamala Harris has pledged to federally legalize cannabis, ensuring access to it is the “law of the land.” If elected, she would work to “legalize marijuana nationally and work with Congress to ensure the safe cultivation, distribution, and possession of recreational marijuana is the law of the land.” “We will break down the unjust legal barriers that hold back other Americans.” The Harris campaign made the announcement on Monday. The Democratic presidential candidate's marijuana plan would “legalize marijuana at the federal level to break down the unjust legal barriers that stand in the way of black men and…