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Federal Cannabis Registration: What the 60-Day Window Means for Latino Operators
The clock is officially ticking. As of April 22, 2026, a 60 day expedited window has opened for state licensed medical marijuana operators to secure federal...
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High Times: Cannabis Now America’s Fifth Most Profitable Crop
With recreational pot now legal in 18 states, cannabis is a bona fide profitable cash crop. In November, Leafly Holdings, Inc. released its first ever “Cannabis...
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Complex: New Study Links Marijuana Use to Lower Resting Heart Rate
A new study published in the American Journal of Medicine has revealed that marijuana use is associated with lower resting heart rate. Researchers from the...
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Spotlight: Osbert Orduña
The Cannabis Place Q&A Session with the National Hispanic Cannabis Council Question 1: When did you first start in the Legal Cannabis Industry and why? In late...
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Spotlight: Cato Felan III
La Hoja Capital Management LLC Q&A Session with the National Hispanic Cannabis Council Question 1: When did you first start in the Legal Cannabis Industry and...
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How Latinos can benefit from the rapidly growing cannabis economy
BY CHUCK SCHUMER AND ANTONIO VALDEZ The War on Drugs has too often inadvertently been a war on people, and overwhelmingly on people of color. For far too long,...
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Pew Research Center: 6 facts about Americans and marijuana
Marijuana is illegal under federal law, but a growing number of states have legalized the drug for medical or recreational purposes in recent years. The changing...
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Yahoo News: NJ legal weed sales to begin on April 21, Gov. Phil Murphy announces
TRENTON New Jersey will officially begin selling marijuana on Thursday, April 21, at up to 13 currently operating medical marijuana dispensaries approved by the...
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Vox: Federal marijuana legalization is stopped in its tracks
It has been nearly a decade since the first time a majority of Americans supported legalizing cannabis. Two years ago, that number reached a record high,...
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The Hill: House approves bill legalizing marijuana
Lawmakers passed the bill largely along party lines, 220 204, with three Republicans joining all but two Democrats in support. The three Republicans who voted...
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AP NEWS: 1st NY pot sales permits will go to people with convictions
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The first licenses to sell recreational marijuana in New York will go to people who were casualties of the war on drugs, state officials said...
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MG MAGAZINE: Influential people of color in cannabis
As we survey the landscape in 2022, it’s clear the cannabis industry’s work has only begun when it comes to creating a vibrant, diverse ecosphere where all can...
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FORTUNE.COM: Cannabis compounds stopped COVID virus from infecting human cells in lab study
In the study, the compounds bound to spike proteins found on the virus and blocked a step the pathogen uses to infect people. BY KANOKO MATSUYAMA AND BLOOMBERG...
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President of NHCC, Brian Vicente, talks about the state of the legal Cannabis economy in 2022
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National Hispanic Cannabis Council Medical Board release first video of educational series
The 30 minute video, presented by David Sanchez of the NHCC Medical Board in collaboration with Dr. Paloma Lehfeldt and Dr. Stephen Dahmer, is the first in a...
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26 Marijuana dispensary licenses available through Arizona equity program - Cronkite News
Nov. 2, 2021 PHOENIX – Raul Molina lived a simple life growing up in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico; he remembers catching tadpoles, playing in the mud and placing...
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How the National Hispanic Cannabis Council Will Change Cannabis
The U.S. Hispanic community and cannabis have had a long and complicated history. Between 1963 and 1984, American scholars came up with the “Mexican hypothesis,”...
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National Hispanic Cannabis Council Releases Report on ‘State of the Hispanic Cannabis Industry in the U.S.’
Thursday, October 14, 2021 The report highlights the current underrepresentation of Hispanics in the industry, the barriers they face, and opportunities for...
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Washington Post: Marijuana jobs are becoming a refuge for retail and restaurant workers
An estimated 321,000 Americans now work in the legal cannabis industry, outnumbering the country’s dentists, paramedics and electrical engineers. Read more:...
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Spotlight: Cynthia Villamizar
Cynthia Villamizar Cookies California Q&A Session with the National Hispanic Cannabis Council Q.1 What is your role at Cookies? How long have you been in this...
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Spotlight: Alexander Romero
Beacon North Company Q&A Session with the National Hispanic Cannabis Council Q.1 What is your role at Beacon North Company in the legal cannabis industry? How...