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Alaska Officially the First State to Allow On-Site Consumption
By mid-summer, Alaskans will be able to consume cannabis in the retail shop they buy it from—so long as local authorities don’t disapprove.

Green Rush Grips Thailand After Medical Cannabis Legalization
The approval of a law legalizing medical cannabis has sparked a green rush in Thailand, the only Asian country to legalize the drug for medicinal purposes triggering a so-called “green rush” over the weed’s potentially hugely lucrative business opportunities.

The Best Way To Store Your Weed
According to Marijuana Moment, a group of scientists in Italy set out on a mission to solve this eternal dilemma over the course of a four-year study that examined how marijuana degrades over time in order to figure out the best way to store it if you don’t smoke that often. The researchers stored the weed in a variety of environments with varying temperatures and light levels and tracked how THC levels decreased over time. Read what they have found…

25% of Cannabis Users in Legal States Consume at Work
Employers will be keen to note that one in four respondents of a new survey said that they’ve gotten high at work, and that an equal percentage copped to using marijuana while on the job.

Marijuana Industry Tops Charts With Highest Growth Rates In Job Market
Now that 34 states have approved medical marijuana and ten have legalized it for all adults, the weed business is booming. A new report from cannabis website Leafly and Whitney Economics shows that legal positions in the industry increased by 44 percent last year with over 64,000 new jobs added, in some states growing from zero or double digits to several thousand.

John Boehner’s Appearance at SXSW Draws Protests and Laughter
As part of South by Southwest festival’s series on “cannabusiness,” former U.S. House Speaker John Boehner John Boehner, a documented prohibitionist while in office, and Acreage CEO Kevin Murphy shared a SXSW panel on Friday, during the conference’s cannabis symposium. Many took offense to his presence, most notably the Equity First Alliance (EFA) “John Boehner’s voting record in Congress (1991-2015) shows that he consistently opposed criminal justice reform, civil rights, LGBTQIA+ protections, environmental protections, and public education. After 24 years of devastating communities with his policies, Boehner wants to profit off cannabis in the wake of the War On Drugs,” the organization said in a news release.