[Link] A Loophole in Japan’s Weed Laws Is Getting Tens of Thousands High

Read: 4/7/2022 www.vice.com

The straw-colored drug, sold in sleek vape cases, looks strikingly similar to the cannabis oil Hiro has tried abroad. When it’s smoked, he said the difference is even harder to tell. 

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[Link] We Spoke to the Unlucky Company With the Same Name as the Investor of Taliban’s Marijuana Center

Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com

On Wednesday night, the Twitter account for Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior Affairs (MOI) announced that a foreign company was investing $450 million into setting up a hashish processing factory within the country.

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[Link] Medical Marijuana Is Legal in Thailand, but People Are Sticking With the Black Market

Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com

Five years ago, long before medical cannabis became legal in Thailand, Ladda was desperate to ease her son's seizures. The longer the epilepsy episode, the more it damaged Dino’s brain and slowed his mental and physical development, she explained.  Ladda gave her son a one-drop dose.

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[Link] Australia's biggest medicinal marijuana farm to be built in Queensland's conservative garden city

Read: 16/4/2021 www.abc.net.au

Two medicinal marijuana companies have fast-tracked plans to build a large cannabis farm in the conservative heartland of Queensland.

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