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Hashish manufacturers are recognized for intelligent branding and promoting. In some situations, this will get hashish firms in bother. See Hashish Trademark Litigation: Wrigley Wins. Typically hashish firms attempt to hew the parody line when riffing on an current trademark. See Reminder: The Parody Protection to Trademark Infringement is Difficult. As my hashish litigation colleague, Jihee Ahn, defined: “parody is a sort of speech protected by the First Modification. It’s a “distorted imitation” of an authentic work for the aim of commenting on it. In the fitting circumstances, parody may be asserted as a protection to trademark infringement.” The U.S.…

Weedmaps is as soon as once more underneath hearth for selling unlawful or unlicensed dispensaries and types, primarily in California. A number of companies have reported the difficulty to the California Division of Hashish Management (DCC) and the U.S. Securities and Trade Fee (SEC), claiming that Weedmaps is “permitting huge quantities of black-market exercise by way of their web site, they usually learn about it however received’t do something about it.”  Though this has lengthy been an issue in California, enterprise homeowners who put within the cash and energy to function legally aren’t too happy about their unlicensed opponents getting…

Rhode Island’s new adult-use hashish market opened for enterprise earlier this month, and thus far, enterprise is nice.  Local news station WPRI, citing the state’s Division of Enterprise Regulation, reported this week that “Rhode Island’s six marijuana dispensaries — 5 of that are at the moment approved to promote to leisure prospects — collectively bought simply over $1.63 million value of marijuana from Dec. 1 to Dec. 7.”  “Lower than half of these gross sales had been for leisure marijuana, at about $786,000. The remaining, about $845,400, had been gross sales to medical marijuana sufferers,” the station reported. “For comparability,…

Vaping is a well-liked way of life selection that many individuals worldwide have adopted over the past decade. And with it being 95% more healthy than smoking tobacco, it’s anticipated that an increasing number of individuals will swap to vaping sooner or later. This Christmas, there are a couple of methods you may give vaping merchandise as a present. Listed here are our solutions.  Why Is Vaping So Common? Vaping is taken into account far safer than smoking cigarettes. The truth is, making the swap from tobacco to vaping could be life saving. For that motive alone, many individuals are…

Cosmetics are one thing of a shiny spot on the subject of federal hashish regulation. Sadly, nevertheless, there’s fairly a bit of bewilderment on the subject of the federal authorized framework for hashish cosmetics. Following up on query that was requested throughout a latest webinar, listed below are the fundamentals of which hashish manufacturers ought to be conscious. First, the excellence between hemp and marijuana applies to cosmetics. If a beauty’s THC content material exceeds 0.3%, it’s thought of marijuana and is a managed substance below federal legislation. Second, offered its THC stage doesn’t exceed 0.3%, there is no such…

We’re impressed with author, actor, podcaster, and comic Brian Posehn, however once we heard that through the pandemic he found out how one can coordinate his weed and meals supply, we would have liked to be taught extra. Was the story extra spectacular than actuality? Provided that you assume you can get the timing down in your first strive.    His latest particular, Posehna Non Grata, is out on Second.co proper now and whereas the pandemic shook up his authentic taping date, Posehn used the time to rewrite his hour and to eat some Taco Bell. Hey, all of us did…

By Steven Hager Bear in mind how a lot enjoyable artwork was within the ’60s? There was extra freedom, extra humor and extra drug-crazed power within the artwork world throughout that decade than in some other latest time. That’s, till a bunch of renegade artwork college students in New York started reliving the period by dropping acid, go-go dancing and holding impromptu “happenings” at a Polish social membership within the East Village. The revival, which began in 1979, was led by a 21-year-old painter named Kenny Scharf, who was later identified for spray-painting Hanna-Barbera-inspired cartoons (The Flintstones, the Jetsons) on…

Rising vegetation comes with a serious studying curve, which suggests the extra affected person, curious, and constant the grower is, the higher the outcomes will probably be. And relating to curious persistence and consistency, low-stress coaching (LST) is among the finest approaches for permitting vegetation to thrive. Just like bonsai methods, LST is a plant coaching technique that entails bending and/or tying your vegetation’ stems with rising tape or duct tape to softly information or redirect their form. This finally permits plant growers to reveal completely different elements of the plant to air and light-weight, leading to the next yield…

A bid to incorporate the SAFE Banking Act in a must-pass protection spending invoice has failed, leaving advocates trying to find a solution to move the laws that will grant the authorized hashish trade entry to banking providers. Proponents of the measure had hoped to incorporate provisions of the banking invoice, referred to as the Safe and Truthful Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, within the Nationwide Protection Appropriations Act (NDAA), an annual spending invoice that funds the army. However the newest model of the NDAA launched on Tuesday didn’t embrace the hashish banking language. Beneath the SAFE Banking Act, federal banking…

A majority of states will legalize psychedelics by 2037, in line with a brand new evaluation printed in an American Medical Affiliation journal that’s based mostly on a statistical mannequin of the state-level marijuana legalization motion. Psychedelics reform has been advancing “in a fast, patchwork trend” within the U.S.—and whereas the decriminalization motion began in additional liberal states, “psychedelic drug reform is turning into a bipartisan challenge,” the examine, printed within the Journal of the American Medical Affiliation (JAMA) Psychiatry on Wednesday, discovered. Researchers at Washington College in St. Louis compiled and analyzed knowledge on psychedelics laws that’s been launched…