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02.07.25 - 13:30
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California Moves Forward With Higher Marijuana Excise Tax (ZeroHedge)
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California Moves Forward With Higher Marijuana Excise Tax
Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times,
Buying legal weed and marijuana products in California will get slightly more expensive starting July 1 after state legislators failed to stop a state excise tax increase on the industry this month.
Effective Tuesday, marijuana retailers will pay 19 percent of gross receipts from cannabis and cannabis product sales—a jump of 4 percentage points.
The excise tax is paid in addition to state sales tax and any city or county taxes applicable to the business's location.
California Cannabis Industry Attorney Jared Schwass said the decision to move ahead with the tax was “disappointing.”
“California legislators fail to act,” Schwass posted on X last week. “Due to that failure, the California cannabis tax is still on schedule to increase from 15 percent to 19 percent on July 1st. It is disappointing to read that [Sen.] Mike McGuire was against freezing the automatic increase because ...
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20.06.25 - 03:30
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Cannabis, Smoked Or Eaten, Linked To Tobacco-Like Blood Vessel Harm (ZeroHedge)
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Cannabis, Smoked Or Eaten, Linked To Tobacco-Like Blood Vessel Harm
Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Long-term marijuana smoking and THC edible use may harm the blood vessels as much as tobacco, a new study suggests. The research indicates that cannabis users might face an increased risk of heart disease, even if they are otherwise healthy.
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Both smoking and eating cannabis caused the blood vessel linings to not work as effectively, even in otherwise healthy adults who never used tobacco, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) found.
“The blood vessels don't seem to care whether the smoke is from tobacco or cannabis,” study author Matthew L. Springer, professor of medicine at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at UCSF, told The Epoch Times. The research shows cannabis users had blood vessel function “very similar” to tobacco smokers in previous studies, he noted.
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