From The Vancouver Sun – link to source story🔗 Airline Passenger Protection Regulations, which came into being in 2019, helped the B.C. couple receive compensation for inconvenience and expenses they paid when WestJet cancelled their flight By Susan Lazaruk • …
There are a lot of ways to use the cannabis plant, and a lot of products that can be made. Whether a person wants to smoke flower, vape a concentrate, eat an edible, inhale via a nasal spray, get it through a patch, or rub it all over their skin, each of these methods allows […]
Legacy cannabis operators are the ones who bore the brunt of prohibition and paved the way for a new, legal market to flourish; one worth billions and one that has been unwelcoming, at best, to these industry OGs. Cannabis activists and many longtime business owners are pushing for the inclusion of legacy brands in the world […]
“When you drink ayahuasca, and you get to see divinity, you can almost never speak of it because it’s too big for words.” ― Gerard Armond Powell When William Burroughs, famed beat writer, entered the Amazonian basin not long after killing his wife and in a tormented addiction to Opium, he stumbled upon a drug that […]
It’s been a whirlwind rise for psychedelics in general in the past few years, with tons of research into medical properties, and new legal policies being set in different parts of the country to allow medical use, or decriminalize recreational use. What’s in store for this class of drugs? Here are my 2022 predictions for […]
Pennsylvania is set to become a national, and possibly global, leader in psilocybin research, thanks to a new bill that was recently introduced in the House of Representatives. The bill passed a Health Committee vote in Harrisburg and is on its way for votes in the house and senate. Titled the Public Health Benefits of […]
Kratom is a tree in the coffee family, native to Southeast Asia with closely related species found in Africa. In those regions, medicinal and recreational use of kratom dates back centuries. As natural wellness has become a hot topic of discussion over the last decade, kratom is gaining popularity in the United States as well. It’s […]
H&R Block Inc has recruited its new top lawyer from Tilray Inc, hiring Dara Redler, the Canadian cannabis producer’s interim chief legal officer. Bloomberg report that the reason they’ve taken on Dara Redler is to fight a lawsuit over the company’s name against billionaire Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc but we wonder if they don’t have […]
Maverick Gaming filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday. It is aiming to challenge what it claims is a sports betting monopoly held by tribal casino operators in Washington State. The card room operator is challenging what it calls an “erroneous application” of the Indian Gaming Regulatory […]
Some time ago, we had brought to you a list of freely accessible scholarly material on and around Intellectual Property – the post is here and the list is here – and are happy to say that we are in the process of updating that list with even more books and materials! There is however one stand-out entry that looks like it will be of interest to several of our readers. Published in late 2021, Dr R.V.Vaidyanatha Ayyar’s 421 paged...