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Strypey<p>According to Chris Fowlie, 2 new pharmaceutical cannabis flower products launched this week, $79 for 10g. The cheapest legally regulated cannabis ever seen in Aotearoa;</p><p><a href="https://95bfm.com/bcast/marijuana-media-with-chris-fowlie-thursday-30-january-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">95bfm.com/bcast/marijuana-medi</span><span class="invisible">a-with-chris-fowlie-thursday-30-january-2025</span></a></p><p>If you're using for health reasons, get your prescription!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/95bFM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>95bFM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MarijuanaMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarijuanaMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ChrisFowlie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisFowlie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/cannabis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cannabis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MedicalCannabis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MedicalCannabis</span></a></p>
Strypey<p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ChrisFowlie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisFowlie</span></a> goes all through a list of false positives that can occur with the government's proposed roadside drug testing tech;</p><p>"Speaking of going to the dentist, if you have some lidocaine you'll test positive for cocaine. If you're on a painkiller of some sort, you'll test positive for heroin. If you're on Ritalin you'll test positive for meth."</p><p><a href="https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/16924333/marijuana-media-thanks-to-the-hempstore-thursday-19-2024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/169</span><span class="invisible">24333/marijuana-media-thanks-to-the-hempstore-thursday-19-2024</span></a></p><p>(1/3)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/95bFM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>95bFM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MarijuanaMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarijuanaMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DrugDriving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrugDriving</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/RoadsideTesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RoadsideTesting</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"Join your union, because there's more support through the union, and it was of course the unions that took on Air NZ and got that Supreme Court case."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ChrisFowlie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisFowlie</span></a>, 2024</p><p><a href="https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/16907174/marijuana-media-thanks-to-the-hempstore-november-28-2024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/169</span><span class="invisible">07174/marijuana-media-thanks-to-the-hempstore-november-28-2024</span></a></p><p>Chris is referring to a case discussed earlier in the segment, where the court ruled that mandated drug testing is an invasion of privacy, and only justified in the workplace in very specific safety situations.</p><p>(1/2)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/95bFM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>95bFM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MarijuanaMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarijuanaMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/cannabis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cannabis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DrugTesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrugTesting</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"... [in Vancouver, Canada] people with harmful drug use can actually get free cannabis ...</p><p>This out kind of outside the law ... but everyone's tolerating it, because it's getting such good outcomes. They get donations off licensed growers ... that have surplus, and they're giving it away to homeless people, and veterans, and people like that [who] need access to it but can't afford it."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ChrisFowlie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisFowlie</span></a>, Nov 17 2024</p><p><a href="https://95bfm.com/bcasts/marijuana-media/9370" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">95bfm.com/bcasts/marijuana-med</span><span class="invisible">ia/9370</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/BFM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BFM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MarijuanaMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarijuanaMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/cannabis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cannabis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"MPI's Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures Fund ... in 2022 they gave Puro $13,000,000 to develop a grow book, and some industry standards."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ChrisFowlie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisFowlie</span></a>, 2024<br> <a href="https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/16871366/marijuana-media-thanks-to-the-hempstore-31st-october-2024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/168</span><span class="invisible">71366/marijuana-media-thanks-to-the-hempstore-31st-october-2024</span></a></p><p>Just to put that in context, that's enough to pay 20 people to work fulltime for 3 years, at $100 an hour. This is the kind of public money sloshing around. Seems like you just need to be in the right place at the right time, or maybe know the right people ...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/95bFM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>95bFM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MarijuanaMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarijuanaMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PublicFunding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicFunding</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"... Police now prosecute more Māori than non-Māori for cannabis offences. Despite being 15 or 18 percent of the population."<br> <a href="https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/16864147/marijuana-media-thanks-to-the-hempstore-october-24-2024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/168</span><span class="invisible">64147/marijuana-media-thanks-to-the-hempstore-october-24-2024</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/95bFM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>95bFM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MarijuanaMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarijuanaMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/cannabis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cannabis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/M%C4%81ori" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Māori</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PoliceRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceRacism</span></a></p>
Strypey<p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ChrisFowlie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisFowlie</span></a> points out that both Kamala Harris, and her newly-announced VP candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are open advocates of drug law reform, including liberalisation of federal laws around cannabis.</p><p><a href="https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/16766040/marijuana-media-thanks-to-the-hempstore-august-8-2024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/167</span><span class="invisible">66040/marijuana-media-thanks-to-the-hempstore-august-8-2024</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/95bFM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>95bFM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MarijuanaMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarijuanaMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DrugLawReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrugLawReform</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/cannabis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cannabis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TimWalz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimWalz</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>Chris Fowlie reports that South Africa has decriminalised cannabis for "private use", including home growing, social dealing etc.</p><p><a href="https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/16706326/marijuana-media-thanks-to-the-hempstore-june-6-2024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/167</span><span class="invisible">06326/marijuana-media-thanks-to-the-hempstore-june-6-2024</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/95bFM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>95bFM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MarijuanaMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarijuanaMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ChrisFowlie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisFowlie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/cannabis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cannabis</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>Apparently the Biden administration are in the process of effectively decriminalising cannabis at the US federal level. I wonder if the next Presidency will reverse that, do nothing, or extend it to a regulated commercial supply?</p><p><a href="https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/16671345/marijuana-media-thanks-to-the-hempstore-may-2-2024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/166</span><span class="invisible">71345/marijuana-media-thanks-to-the-hempstore-may-2-2024</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/95bFM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>95bFM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/bFM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bFM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MarijuanaMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarijuanaMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/cannabis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cannabis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DrugLawReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrugLawReform</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/decriminalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decriminalization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>Tahiti is legalising medical cannabis, and is considering legalising cannabis social clubs too.</p><p><a href="https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/16458137/marijuana-media-thanks-to-the-hemp-store-16-november-2023" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/164</span><span class="invisible">58137/marijuana-media-thanks-to-the-hemp-store-16-november-2023</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/95bFM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>95bFM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MarijuanaMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarijuanaMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Tahiti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tahiti</span></a></p>