News: 

• Missouri Probation Officers Send Patients Back to Prison For Using Legal Medical Marijuana. 
• Reminds Jeff of authoritarian states having ambiguous laws. 
• Is dabbing legal? 
• Many people are wrongfully charged for felonies when it comes to dabbing. 
• Surgeon General Says Stop Locking Up People For Marijuana 

- This is some positive news, yet it’s another person taking a personal position but still operating within a regime that has more than 40k people in jail. 

• Is Big Pharma Taking Over the Cannabis Industry?
• In the US, GW pharmaceuticals and Sanofi are leading the cannabis clinical trials, and some of the largest stakeholders of cannabis patents are pharmaceutical companies. Is this problematic, or better in the long run? 
• We hope that things with cannabis legalization aren’t being slowed down for the purpose of getting things in place for these companies. 
• -GW Pharmaceuticals has the first and only cannabis-derived drug, Epidiolex, to be approved by the FDA. 

Stats of the Week: 

• What Percentage of Americans Smoke Marijuana? A 2019 Gallup poll reports that 12% of Americans regularly consume cannabis (not CBD), while nearly half of the U.S. population (about 46%) have tried weed at least once. 
• -People used to believe that men smoked more weed than women, BUT as of 2020, ladies accounted for 48% of consumers. 

Controversy of the Week: 

• Most states impose cannabis potency laws. Should states tax or regulate cannabis potency with “potency-related taxes”? There might be something in the high level THC that we need research that could prevent people from getting sick, or is this recriminalization? 
• Virginia’s new law allows regulators to limit the THC % in products; 30% for flowers, 60% for concentrate.