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Jellyfish Lasers Are The Newest Breakthrough In Quantum Physics

Brendan Bures
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Jellyfish Lasers Are The Newest Breakthrough In Quantum Physics

Science aims to understand the mysteries of our complex, mysterious universe. Some queries are small, like hearing corn grow and learning how dogs understand us. Others reach beyond our world, like NASA mixtapes and discovering an habitable planet beyond our own.

But science also can create and a recent example of that involves every middle school nerd’s favorite technology: lasers. It is the latest major breakthrough in the field of polariton lasers, which could lead to new studies in quantum physics, and the key to all this was jellyfish. Enter the jellyfish laser.

Basically, the polariton lasers scientists use currently operate through inorganic semiconductors and generate exorbitant heat that requires cooling. During a 2011 study, scientists found that jellyfish’s green fluorescent proteins, through a combination of mirror and low-energy light, could produce a beam of monochromatic photons. In other words, green lasers.

This was the first insistence of biological lasers. (Much to Dr. Evil’s chagrin.) In 2016, scientists were able to use those green fluorescent proteins from jellyfish, as well as a mirror chamber and E. coli bacteria, to focus and increase the intensity of the “jellyfish laser,” as we’re calling it. Due to the barrel-shaped proteins, this polariton laser can function at room temperature, which is ideal for quantum applications, as some experiments require low-temperature settings. This new jellyfish polariton laser also is much more efficient and compact.

Via Live Science:

This makes the new study promising for the field of optical computing, [said Stéphane Kéna-Cohen, an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Physics at Polytechnique Montréal in Canada], and a tiny laser based on biomaterials could also potentially be implanted in the human body for medical applications. In the meantime, he added that they are a useful model for investigating fundamental questions in quantum physics.

This research may be preliminary and it may be awhile until it produces significant results, but polariton lasers can now be constructed organically from jellyfish. Our world is more unbelievable every day.

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Consumer Alert: A Marijuana POS System Has Been Hacked In 23 States

Al Olson
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Consumer Alert: A Marijuana POS System Has Been Hacked In 23 States

A cyber attack crippled a major marijuana POS system, sparking an outage that has stymied point-of-sales and inventory systems for dispensaries in 23 states.

MJ Freeway said on Monday that restoring full service may take up to three weeks. In the meantime, nearly 1,000 retailers will be forced to track sales and inventories without the assistance of software.

There are reports that a some retailers have been forced to shut down, since the software is the point-of-sales system. Other retailers have been tracking sales the old-fashioned way — with pen and paper.

“We don’t know yet exactly who or what the motivation was (for the attack),” said Jeannette Ward, director of data and marketing for MJ Freeway. She said the company “will definitely pursue a criminal investigation.”

The Denver-based company is working around the clock to resolve the situation, but stressed that there is no danger of customer data being corrupted by the hack.

“The attack was aimed at corrupting, not extracting, data,” Ward said. “What that means is all client-patient data is still protected, still safe, still encrypted and was not viewed by the attackers.”

Jessica Billingsley, founder of the MJ Freeway, wrote on the company’s Facebook page:

MJ Freeway teams have been working overnight on recovery procedures. The process is progressing, but it is manual and thus very time consuming.

Access to an alternative site will be available for you today. We will update you with further information via email. Thank you for your patience and again, our sincere apologies for the inconvenience.

The company has been fielding a high volume of phone calls  from clients and is using social media sites to keep customers up tp date on developments.

“We have spoken to many clients directly. We’ve got our support lines open,” Ward told Marijuana Business Daily, who first broke the story. “We’ve also reached out to (some larger) clients proactively. We’re sending emails to all clients every couple of hours to update them.”

 

Wrap Yourself In The Warmth Of These Cannabis Cocktails

Warren Bobrow
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Wrap Yourself In The Warmth Of These Cannabis Cocktails

Oh, don’t get me wrong, I love the winter. Just in someone else’s dream. You see, I’m less fond of the slop and the slipping on the ice leading to a fall…or worse! It gives me something to complain about. When a truck splashes a pedestrian — speaking in the first person of course — well, it makes me want to drink. Or at least to make a drink.

When I’m weaving tales of woe, the last thing I want to be is thirsty. But not being a heavy drinker has its benefits and failures. I would have to explain how I came to use weed and liquor in the first place and unless you were in New Orleans at the Pharmacy Museum, you’d never know.

So it stands to reason that if the weather is cold outside, I want to get warm. And the best way to do that is with drink and a fine Indica Strain. I want couchlock. I want to feel like a warm cashmere blanket is bathing my bones in thick heat. There is much to be said for this feeling and it is all good.

The Difficulty of Winter Walking is more than a metaphor; it is the name of this cocktail:

The Difficulty of Winter Walking

Warren Bobrow with DOWW

Ingredients:

2 oz. Cannabis Infused Aged Jamaican Rum (I used OG Kush-decarbed at 240 degrees for 45 minutes- for my Cannabis, then infused for a period of time).

For the rum element, I like my rum to be funky from the use of a Dunder. What is a Dunder? It’s a wild yeast that lives in the dunder or muck pit. Sort of like a sourdough only much funkier. No way do you ever want to see one. But the rum? It’s salubrious!

4 oz. Grilled Pineapple Juice- Grill slices of Pineapple on a grill and cool, then juice. Charred is great!

½ oz. Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice

½ oz. Raw Honey Simple Syrup

2 oz. Sparkling Water

Pinch of Sea Salt, like Maldon (flaky)

Coconut Water Ice — just like it sounds: freeze a tray of coconut water into ice. Do it now!

Angostura Bitters

Prep:

To a Collins Glass: Add the Coconut Water Ice. Add the OG Kush infused Jamaican Rum to a mixing glass with the 2-3 cubes of regular ice- save the coconut water ice for the cocktail. Add the Grilled Pineapple Juice. Add the Lemon Juice. Add the Raw Honey Simple syrup (1 cup raw honey to 1 cup of hot, not boiling, water. let cool.). Stir until chilled. Add the Coconut water ice to the Collins Glasses. Top with your mixture of rum, pineapple and honey/lemon juices. Finish with a splash of Sparkling Water and the Angostura Bitters. Top with a puff of Sea Salt and serve.

Now, for my next trick…

Here’s a punch I named after my most favorite bar in Miami Beach, (so far anyhow): The Broken Shaker.

The back story is my family owned a home on Hibiscus Island in Miami Beach. And it was a grand Spanish style home that sprawled over several acres of land, which is a lot for anyplace in this area. The Broken Shaker is located in the Freehand Hotel and the designer of the original property designed my grandparent’s home. It’s uncanny for me to enter this hotel/hostel because from the moment that I entered the door of the Broken Shaker Bar, I felt right at home. I’ll name this punch after the name of my grandparent’s home: Shangri-La.

Shangri-La Punch. The tour boats still go in front of the mansion today saying it was the home of the founder of Geritol and Serutan. But no more. Too bad, but time goes on.

The use of Fruitations Tangerine Soda Syrup is brilliant because the second you open the top, the punch is absolute perfection because of the utter quality of the ingredients.

Shangri-La/Broken Shaker-style-Roasted Fruit and Rum Punch

  • 1 bottle Jamaican Rum infused with the strain of your choice
  • 4 bananas
  • 2 pineapple
  • 4 pink grapefruit
  • 1 orange
  • 1 bottle Fruitations Tangerine Soda and Cocktail Syrup
  • 1 Bottle Seltzer water
  • Angostura Bitters
  • Couple pinches of sea salt, like Maldon
  • Fresh Thyme

Prep:

Pre-heat an oven to 350.

On a silicone oven proof tray, add slices of the bananas, pink grapefruit slices, the pineapple (peeled and cored and sliced) and the orange. Roast for 30 minutes, let cool and then muddle into a punch bowl, try to get as much juice into the punch as you are able. Augment when necessary with freshly squeezed juices (they don’t appear in the recipe- so add as needed, depending on how many you are serving)

Add the Fruitations Tangerine Soda and Cocktail Syrup. Add the Seltzer and the Angostura Bitters. Top with the sea salt and a bit of fresh thyme- no wood. It’s bitter!

Never more than one per hour please!

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Warren Bobrow, a.k.a. The Cocktail Whisperer, is the author of four books, including his latest: Cannabis Cocktails, Mocktails and Tonics.

Everyone’s Flipping Out Over This Hunky Butcher From Istanbul

Amy Hansen
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Everyone’s Flipping Out Over This Hunky Butcher From Istanbul

Nusret Gökçe is a butcher and restaurant owner in Istanbul. What’s even more impressive these days is that he has amassed more than a million followers on Instagram.

What’s the deal? First off, he’s handsome.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOf69IPjCyD

He’s also figured out the social media sweet spot of food porn mixed with posturing.

Here he is showing a cut of meat who’s boss.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BNe0Gy-DqO4

Here he is playing soccer without a shirt. #thatcheflyfe

https://www.instagram.com/p/BINLE5aARUf

Here he is looking all Don Corleone like.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BHdHpyxDb6G

Here he is with a tiny baby, which is nearly overshadowed by his chest.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BKTLcHxgsLA

He quickly earned the nickname “Salt Bae” after posting his latest video. Just watch his smooth seasoning technique at the end.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BO9dI9ujWNI

If those meat fingering techniques don’t have you swooning, maybe this will.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOMBuW_DGas

Is this guy for real?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BFMyfpZMHx6

Nusret has been a butcher since he was 16. He’s now in his early 30s, according to FooDiva.

Remember that New Year’s resolution where you try to stay off social media?

via GIPHY

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Will Texas Legalize Marijuana In 2017? 11 Bills Are Working Toward Yes

Mike Adams
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Will Texas Legalize Marijuana In 2017? 11 Bills Are Working Toward Yes

Marijuana legalization is expected to be the mostly widely discussed issue of the 85th Texas Legislature, with a plethora of bills pertaining to the subject already waiting to be heard in the coming months.

This is not surprising, especially considering the way the state’s legislative forces left the cannabis reform topic in the 2015 session, when it tossed every other marijuana-related measure in the garbage with the exception of a measly low-THC bill that allows only a restricted number of patients to gain access to non-intoxicating cannabis oil.

Even this modest legislation ended up on the books with no possible functionality. That’s because a mistake in the language forces doctors to “prescribe” marijuana rather that offer recommendations – an action that is strictly forbidden under the Controlled Substances Act.

There are 11 different bills pertaining to marijuana reform that have already been submitted for the 2017 session. Some lawmakers are hoping to fix the problem with the current medical marijuana law, while others are hoping to expand the scope of the program to service more medical marijuana patients. There are also a couple of measures lingering in the halls of the Texas brass intended to decriminalize marijuana possession, as well as an attempt to drag the Lone Star State completely out of prohibitionary times.

Perhaps some of the most interesting pieces of legislation to be heard this session are a couple of proposals aimed at putting the issue of marijuana legalization on the state ballot. Senate Joint Resolutions 17 and 18 would simply take the marijuana legalization debate out of the hands of lawmakers and let the state’s voters decide which way to go.

“The people should be able to decide what should be legal or not legal and help with the laws,” Corey Mendes, director of Southeast Texas NORML, told KMMT. “Texans would be able to say whether or not they wanted it, not representatives who are in the pockets of special interests.”

However, the bill to watch this session is one designed to eliminate the criminal penalties associated with small time marijuana possession. House Bill 81, which was introduced by State Representative Joe Moody, would simply make the offense a civil infraction, punishable with a $250 fine – doing away with the possibility of jail and a criminal record.

Although similar decriminalization proposals have failed in the past, the issue now has more support from the very lawmakers who previously stood against it.

“We’re spending our tax dollars on incarcerating [people that don’t deserve to be incarcerated] because they got caught with a small amount of marijuana,” State Representative Jason Isaac, who voted against a decriminalization bill in the 2015 session, told the Texas Tribune. “These are people that we probably subsidize their public education, we probably subsidize where they went to a state school, and now they’re branded as a criminal when they go to do a background check.”

There is also a possibility that the legalization of a comprehensive medical marijuana program could be a hot issue during this session. State Senator Jose Menendez recently submitted a proposal aimed at putting a full strength medicinal cannabis law in place for patients living with “debilitating and chronic medical conditions.”

“Doctors, not politicians, should be determining what is best for Texas patients,” Menéndez said in a statement. “This is legitimate medicine that can help a of variety people, from the grandmother suffering from cancer to the veteran coping with PTSD after returning home from war.”

Even if some of this legislation goes the distance this year in the House and Senate, it is not yet known whether Texas Governor Gregg Abbott would support any of these reforms in ink. So far, his administration has not said whether the Governor plans to support any marijuana-related bills in 2017.

Marijuana Companies Unite To Help Veterans

Al Olson
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Marijuana Companies Unite To Help Veterans

Marijuana companies unite to help veterans.  Yes, The Veterans For Cannabis Foundation, with the help from two cannabis companies, are creating special marijuana strains specifically designed to help veterans combat PTSD and related disorders.

Medicinal Genomics and Courtagen Life Sciences announced on Monday the joint agreement with the Veterans For Cannabis Foundation, a non-profit group working to decrease suicide rates among our nation’s veterans.

“We are very proud to be working together with the Veterans For Cannabis Foundation,” said Mike Catalano, head of marketing for Medicinal Genomics and Courtagen Life Sciences. “Their mission of effecting change through data collection may ultimately help to reduce the unnecessary deaths amongst our veteran population, in particular for conditions where opioids are commonly prescribed. Registering the genetic fingerprint of the cannabis strains used will help control the consistency of the products and the data collection efforts.”

According to the Veterans Administration, there are 22 suicides of U.S. veterans each day. Nearly 20 percent of vets returning from the Afghan and Iraq wars suffer from PTSD. In addition to the staggering suicide figure, there is a growing concern of needless accidental overdose deaths caused by prescription medication, which occur at a 50 percent greater rate in the veteran population. The opioid epidemic killed more than 33,000 people in 2015 — many of them veterans who were overly prescribed pain medications from the VA.

Because the federal government still considers cannabis to be an illegal, Schedule I substance, most veterans are denied access to medical marijuana. Last year, Congress gave veterans the right to discuss medical marijuana as a treatment option with their VA doctors in states where it is legal.

“The death rate from opioids among VA health care is nearly double the national average,” said Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., who authored the bill allowing for veterans’ access to cannabis. “From what I hear from veterans is that medical marijuana has helped them deal with pain and PTSD, particularly as an alternative to opioids.”

While the new policy allows VA doctors to discuss medical marijuana treatment and complete the regulatory paperwork for state-sponsored programs, it does not allow VA doctors to provide marijuana or cover the cost.

Monday’s joint announcement hopes to make the process more transparent and scientific. What makes the VFCB program intriguing is that the Veterans For Cannabis Foundation will be creating specially branded cannabidiol (CBD) products that can be tracked with the VFCF application.

Instead of strains named Green Crack or Alaskan Thunderfuck, the program with create strain names with names more palatable to a government committee that may help the data get a fairer assessment. Tracking the genetics will ensure that the connection to the original name is not lost, using StrainSEEK™ strain identification and registration services.

The program is free to veterans of all branches of the military and the products will be priced at a discount for those who served our country.

“We are laser focused and extremely excited to be working with Medicinal Genomics and Courtagen Life Sciences to bring cannabis science to the forefront in the treatment of our veterans,” said Joshua Littrell, founder of Veterans For Cannabis Foundation. “With MGC’s StrainSEEK program we are able to take some of the guess work out of cannabis treatment in our veteran community. VFCF will now be able to replicate and reproduce the experience for veterans in our program. Our veterans are begging for a treatment they can trust and that is uniform. Now they can rest assured knowing they are receiving the same treatment every time.”

A Plea To Congress: Expand Veteran Access To Medical Marijuana

Al Olson
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A Plea To Congress: Expand Veteran Access To Medical Marijuana

We can all agree that America’s veterans deserve all the support we can give them. Each and every veteran has put their life on the line for us, and the least we can do as a nation is give them all the aid they need after they return from duty.

This, we at The Fresh Toast believe, includes access to medical marijuana. In-depth studies have been performed and have proven that cannabis can help with the worse symptoms of PTSD, and can reduce reliance on opioid-based medications that often lead to addiction and sometimes, overdose.

We hope that the Trump Administration, Jeff Sessions and Congress will help out America’s veterans by continuing and expanding access to medical marijuana. They have fought though the horrors of war for our country, let’s give them the medicine they need so that those horrors don’t haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Below is a piece posted by The Fresh Toast for Veteran’s Day. To the veterans: Thank you for your service and we will continue to support and give voice to your cause.

Sincerely yours,
Kelly Barbieri
Editor In Chief

War is hell. Returning home from the battlefield without access to adequate healthcare is a different kind of hell altogether.

But that is what is happening to our veterans, a growing demographic that now makes up 18 percent of the American population. Each day, 22 veterans commit suicide — and many of those deaths are attributed to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

A disproportionate amount of veterans suffer from opiate addiction. This is largely due to the fact that doctors for the Veterans Administration have over-prescribed them for decades. It’s an epidemic that cries out for a new solution.

Is The Solution Medical Cannabis?

“I have been deeply troubled about our inability to adequately deal with our returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan,” Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) said earlier this year. “A lot of them are suffering from PTSD, chronic pain, traumatic brain injury, and these are all conditions that have been shown to respond to medical marijuana.”

Medical marijuana is an effective alternative to prescription painkillers and antidepressants, but the Drug Enforcement Agency clings to its claim that there is “no currently accepted medical use.” Cannabis remains a Schedule I substance, the most dangerous category that includes heroin. In August, the DEA refused to reschedule cannabis.

The American Legion  urged the U.S. government to reclassify marijuana in September. The organization is the nation’s largest veterans group with more than 2 million members,

Medical Cannabis and PTSD

Dr. Sue Sisley, a cannabis researcher who is studying the benefits of cannabis for sufferers of PTSD, said the American Legion’s support should be an impetus for change.

“I consider this a major breakthrough for such a conservative veterans organization,” Sisley told Marijuana.com. “Suddenly the American Legion has a tangible policy statement on cannabis that will allow them to lobby and add this to their core legislative agenda. The organization has a massive amount of influence at all levels.”

Dr. Sisley’s study will be a randomized, controlled trial that will investigate the effects of various THC to CBD ratios on PTSD.

Sisley was fired from the University of Arizona in 2014 while she was attempting to launch her study. She contends her firing was a political reaction connected to medical cannabis work. She has worked with veterans for nearly two decades and has plenty of anecdotal evidence of the therapeutic benefits of cannabis for patients of PTSD.

The Veterans Already Know Cannabis Works

“The veterans who are using cannabis successfully now will tell you they don’t need the study because they know it works for them,” she said. But, she says, “only randomized controlled trials will influence the thinking of the medical community.”

Sisley’s research is sponsored by Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a California-based non-profit group. She also a received a $2.1 million grant from the Colorado Department of Health and Environment.

“Over the last decade, patients have slowly started telling me they were using medical cannabis successfully to manage their PTSD symptoms. I was extremely dubious at the beginning. I was thinking these guys are just drug seeking,” Sisley told Newsweek. “I am trained in a very conservative medical field, where we only cover FDA-approved medicine. So for me to hear all these reports, it was discouraging, and I felt like a failure because they had to resort to this highly dangerous drug. Then slowly I stopped being so judgmental and started really listening to them.”

On Veterans Day, let’s support our heroes. And start listening to them.

Legos? Bananas? 19 Household Objects People Made Into Bongs

Brendan Bures
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Legos? Bananas? 19 Household Objects People Made Into Bongs

You don’t always have the tools available to partake in your favorite leisure activity. You have the product, but maybe you forget your smoking apparatus back home or at a friend’s. Maybe you’re traveling and in a pinch. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get creative and make a couple DIY bongs.

Here are just several suggestions of everyday items you can craft into smoking devices.

Legos

https://www.instagram.com/p/BJ_054YhBR8/?tagged=diybong

Any Bottles, really

https://www.instagram.com/p/BFy5MTuOvuY/?tagged=diybong

Cantaloupe

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOyjuGrjDmu/?tagged=diybong

Fish Tank

A Pringles Can

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEaC28RPYWE/?tagged=diybong

Shells

https://www.instagram.com/p/BCpxh42yD65/?tagged=diybong

Apples, Pears, Papayas, and Pineapples

Bananas

https://www.instagram.com/p/BA2pIwPxfh0/?tagged=diybong

Jam Jars

https://www.instagram.com/p/5eWnKkOvqu/?tagged=diybong

Xbox 360

Watermelons

https://www.instagram.com/p/BA-SySSxfpj/?tagged=diybong

Coconuts

https://www.instagram.com/p/BCiFUFQJ470/?tagged=diybong

Honey Bottles

https://www.instagram.com/p/pdfviHJX4f/?tagged=diybong

Pill Bottles

Ice

https://www.instagram.com/p/pl1JpSJX9j/?tagged=diybong

R2-D2

https://www.instagram.com/p/p3PaX-pX7D/?tagged=diybong

Inside PHAR681: Maryland’s First Cannabis Curriculum

Chloe Sommers
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Inside PHAR681: Maryland’s First Cannabis Curriculum

“As pharmacists, we have an obligation to acknowledge the medical benefits of cannabis and educate others.” It’s a sentiment Mary Pat Hoffman instills in her college students, of her new cannabis course.

Mary Pat Hoffman / Photo courtesy of Mary Pat Hoffman

Hoffman is the clinical director to Peninsula Alternative Health, a company who received one of the 102 coveted pre-approval license for a dispensary in Maryland.

She’s also taken it upon herself to forge a relationship with the University of Maryland Eastern Shore School (UMES) of Pharmacy.

“This is medicine, just as much as the pharmaceutical drugs people pick up from their local pharmacy, she explained to her students. It’s about bringing students into a non-biased classroom, she said, “I’ve designed the course to bring a new class of pharmacy students into a post-drug war world.”

It’s the university’s first cannabis course elective and it begins this month. Hoffman said she was excited for her first day of school in nearly twenty years.

Cannabis Curriculum

UMES is a unique spot, as part of the well-resourced University of Maryland system, it’s also in an area heavily reliant upon agriculture industries.

Hoffman is hopeful that cannabis industries can help the unemployment problem in the area. “If this becomes an asset for the school, they can become a school of excellence for the industry.”

The elective covers a broad range of topics:

  • History of cannabis
  • The endocannabinoid system
  • Medical conditions benefiting from cannabis
  • Using cannabis as medicine
  • Methods of administration
  • Dosage and drug interactions
  • Substance abuse and legal and ethical issues

In return, the Peninsula Alternative Health Center will take on pharmacy students to intern in their facility.

Maryland’s Medical Timeline

By 2018, patients will be able to legally include cannabis in their treatment plans.

“We have to understand the clinical implications this can have on their quality of life and adjust traditional treatment as necessary,” Hoffman told The Fresh Toast.

It’s taken years to get this far, but she says it’s worth the wait.

The next steps involve financial and criminal background checks on all partners of the 102 dispensaries, site selection, financing, training, and inspections.

Laying Cornerstones

Now is the time to meet the other cannabis businesses and preliminary licensees in the state, according to Hoffman. For her company and her future patients, the earlier the relationships begin with the cultivators, the better.

Hoffman attended the December meeting with the new Maryland Marijuana Cannabis Commission Executive Director, Patrick Jameson. Jameson fielded questions from the preliminary license winners at the December 21 meeting.

“A lot of questions were answered and I think everyone feels more confident and comfortable moving forward,” reported Hoffman.

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Kelly Barbieri
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Support Our Veterans By Sharing This Meme

 

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