420 College In The News

Los Angeles, Ca (April 29, 2020) — George Boyadjian, founder of 420 College, a leader in cannabis business training for 11 years, has filed a $20,000,000 damage claim against the City of Los Angeles claiming that a member of Department of Cannabis Regulation (DCR) had a conflict of interest when awarding a contract to another organization with less experience in the industry and Boyadjian was a victim of racial discrimination.  After submitting all of the 
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PALS WINS FIRST DISPENSARY LICENSE IN BISHOP, CA When Jake and Alina Wagoner opened PALS Collective in Bishop, CA back in 2014, the environment surrounding medical marijuana was not quite as open and supporting as it is today. The idea that marijuana could be used as a medicine did not resonate with many of the locals in this small Eastern Sierra town. There was a small, but vocal resistance to their business, but they persevered 
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The agency gave no clue whether it will remove pot from its Schedule 1 category of dangerous drugs.   Editor’s Note: In light of Huffington Post’s report (below) about the DEA’s plans to decide by mid-year whether or not marijuana’s classification should be changed from a Schedule I to a Schedule II drug, Cannabis Business Times (CBT) reached out to the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) for the organization’s insights on what a reclassification would mean 
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Washington (CNN)One of Richard Nixon’s top advisers and a key figure in the Watergate scandal said the war on drugs was created as a political tool to fight blacks and hippies, according to a 22-year-old interview recently published in Harper’s Magazine.   “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people,” former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper’s writer Dan Baum 
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A new report finds black people remain more likely to face pot charges in Colorado, where cops are performing thousands of fewer arrests in keeping with the Colorado pot  pioneering legalization law. Legalization advocates generally note unequal enforcement outcomes alongside arguments that regulation can reduce criminality and reap tax windfalls. Colorado and Washington voters took the leap in 2012, followed by Alaska, Oregon and District of Columbia voters in November. Colorado’s legalization law allows most adults 
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  Talking THC, cannabis contains at least 400 different chemicals, its main mind-altering ingredient is THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol). The amount of THC in marijuana determines the drug’s strength. THC levels are affected by a great many factors, including plant type, weather, soil, and time of harvest. It is widely believed that the sophisticated cannabis cultivation of today, specifically the use of hydroponics, produces higher levels of THC and therefore marijuana that is far more potent than 
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Misguided cops turn the war on weed into a war on growing things, they continue cracking down on marijuana grow operations, especially in heavily armed, unannounced raids, maybe they should consider hiring a botanist or two. Earlier this month, Dwayne Perry of Cartersville, Georgia, was startled out of his bed by a low-flying helicopter. Moments later, WSB-TV reports, heavily armed officers and K-9 units with the Governor’s Task Force for drug suppression showed up, apparently believing 
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Austin, Texas approves legalization of Marijuana. A proposal which would make Texas the fifth state in the U.S. to legalize recreational marijuana use was approved in a bipartisan House panel vote – with the bill’s author citing his Christian values as cause for his support. Being hailed as a historic victory and a surprise to Lone Star state lawmakers, the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee approved a bill Wednesday that would make it legal to 
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