This week in review Greenlight Events held the Texas Cannabis Roundup in Dallas. SXSW has opened voting for panels on cannabis for 2023. States that have legalized see a major decrease in synthetic marijuana poisonings. Audio player included below for those on the go.
We’ve got upcoming events as well in Texas. On August 27th is the all day event Cannarock in Austin, TX at Come and Take it Live. On October 10th is the Texas Marijuana March and Freedom Festival at the Burnett Park in Fort Worth Texas at 12 pm. For more information visit the events tab in the menu of the Texas Cannabis Collective website.
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Texas cannabis advocates Greenlight Events and Texas Cannabis Collective as advocacy partner, hosted the Texas Cannabis Roundup.
The event took place at the Longhorn Icehouse in Dallas, Texas this past Wednesday evening. It is the first event collaboration between the two at the location, since they hosted the official kickoff party of Lucky Leaf Dallas in 2021. That event wound up winning the event of the year for the 2021 Texas Hemp Awards.
The event featured several speakers including Daulton O’Neill, Leah Lakstins, Moon Taxi, The Hemp Housewife, Power Biopharms, Drops of Life, and more.
A little over 200 people packed themselves into the venue to hear speakers. This included people from engineering spaces to growing space, retail fronts, veterans, and people seeking work within the growing Texas cannabis industry. The speaking events took place between 6:30 pm and 9pm with a social gathering for attendees to network afterward.
The Texas Cannabis Collectives next sponsored event will be Cannarock on August 27th at Come and Take It Live in Austin, TX.
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SXSW has opened voting on marijuana and psychedelics panels for the upcoming 2023 exposition.
Voting for 93 separate panels opened this past Tuesday and will remain open until August 21st. In the past years the panels were scattered across the voting platform. This year these panels are placed under specific categories known as tracks. For the cannabis category, there are 61 options. For psychedelics, there are 32 proposed panels.
A well known ally in the space from Texas that has put forward a panel is Shayda Torabi of REstart CBD in Austin, TX. She has submitted the panel Cannabis eCommerce Limitations and Opportunities. Shayda is also slated to be a speaker for the possible panels titled:
- Censorship in Cannabis: Tales From the Deleted,
- Your State Legalized Adult Use Cannabis, Now What?,
- The Future of Chemically Derived Cannabinoids,
- Foundational Learnings of CPG as a Cannabis Brand,
- Cannabis 2.0: Insights for the Next Green Wave,
- Cannabis Marketing from CBD to THC
Sage Howell of REstart will be hosting the possible panel The Future of Chemically Derived Cannabinoids and Ray Kaderli, Founder/Owner, Hemp Build Network, LLC will be speaking on Carbon-Zero Building with Hemp Materials
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The Future of Cannabis panel is another Texan based presentation that will be led by well known Texas ally Nishi Whiteley of Foundation for an Informed Texas. She will also be a speaker for a possible panel The Need for Cannabis Industry Innovation.
Kim Fores CEO of The Hemp Housewife, is lined up to be a speaker with Help! I just found out my parents smoke weed.
Texas advocates voted to be given stage time at SXSW can be monumental for cannabis reform in Texas and across the nation during the next session. This is because the event will take place during the Texas legislative session, and the expansion of Texas impacts the nation as a whole with current commodity and economic structure.
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A study has shown that with states that have legalized marijuana, significant reductions in synthetic cannabinoids poisoning are seen.
The report notes that a retrospective study of National Poison Data System (NPDS) data from 2016 to 2019 identified and associated synthetic poisoning reports with annual state cannabis law and market status.
State implementation of medical cannabis law was associated with 13% fewer reported annual exposures and was not seen as statistically significant. Adoption of permissive state cannabis policy was independently and significantly associated with 37% lower reported annual synthetic exposures, relative to restrictive policies such as those found in states like Texas. Opening of retail markets was associated with 36% fewer reported exposures, relative to states with medical cannabis only.
The study has shown that prohibition does not stop people from trying to access a cannabis or cannabis product replacement, but increases the likelihood by a significant margin that users would be accessing something that is extremely detrimental to human health.
Cases were characterized by the state in which the exposure occurred, coding state cannabis laws into three categories: restrictive, medical, and permissive. Restrictive states were defined as those where cannabis is either illegal or restricted to CBD only or very low concentration THC products for narrow medical use. Which is what Texas falls into. Then there are medical states which allow for use of THC products with broad medical authorization. Permissive states were those which had adult-use cannabis for non-medical purposes.
“This study shows some potential public health benefits to the legalization and regulation of adult use of cannabis. Based on both past research and this current study, it’s evident that users who have a choice to use a less toxic product would potentially do so,” the study lead author Tracy Klein, a WSU associate professor of nursing told T&F Newsroom.
