Featured guests: Students for Sensible Drug Policy executive director Betty Aldworth and National Cannabis Industry Association executive director Aaron Smith.
We’re talking about marijuana policy — including legislation in Congress and who’s making an impact; the outlook for changing the federal drug schedule; and adolescent marijuana use. There’s also discussion about one of the biggest issues affecting cannabis businesses and predictions for big stories for 2016.
TOP MARIJUANA NEWS
• The Denver police officer turned his head to the handcuffed man as he was escorting him to a squad car and asked, “You know you got caught by a news guy?” The suspect bowed his head. “I’m a news-hound junkie. This is my niche,” proclaimed 7News photojournalist Daryl Orr, about an hour after he yelled at the suspected thief to stay on the ground.
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• Studying a non-psychoactive compound found in marijuana will be slightly easier for researchers after the Drug Enforcement Administration announced a small regulatory change. The change applies to a substance called cannabidiol, or CBD. The substance, which is derived from marijuana, gained renown in Colorado as a healing agent after hundreds of families moved to the state hoping it could cure their desperately sick children, many of whom suffer from seizure disorders.
POT QUIZ
Test your current-events knowledge on marijuana in college sports, a cannabis compound that has been called a “helmet for the brain,” and an enormous weed gift for Snoop Dogg.
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