Quick Hit: canna week in review

Quick Hit is an overview of the cannabic news of the last few days, at home and abroad.

On Newsweed

Canada continues its European breakthrough Denmark and in Belgium / Germany, while Saskatchewan finally announced its legalization plans.

The Vermont and the New Hampshire don't really care about Jeff Sessions' mood swings.

France will soon have more CBD dietary supplements for animals than for humans.

Elsewhere in French

Cannabis also comes in handy for blowing up the director of an NGO that defends human rights a little too much in Chechnya. At Libération.

In Montpellier, customs officers were forced to returning cannabis seeds confiscated from a collector's seed store.

NORML France has set up a partnership with the Trichome Institute, a Colorado-accredited cannabis training institute, and is offering a 10% discount on online courses. See it here.

Growshop managers were sentenced to a 12-month suspended prison sentence for selling equipment and advising on cannabis cultivation. That's still less when the Ordre des Pharmaciens is the plaintiff. Thomas Duchêne, whom the JDD quickly profiles, did well to go to Spain.

Flashing cars apparently work on cannabis, which of course the UNSA Police union, They even went so far as to speak of «real road delinquents», in all presumption of innocence.

Elsewhere in English

The old running back Miami Dolphins Ricky Williams will host a cannabis-friendly party for the Super Bowl

Former basketball player Al Harrington wants to help the NBA see the benefits of medical cannabis. Where we learn a little more about Harrington, who didn't touch cannabis until he needed to treat knee pain. He is now a fervent campaigner for its therapeutic use within the NBA.

Suzanne Aubert, French Catholic missionary nun in New Zealand, to be canonized according to the NZ Herald. What does this have to do with sauerkraut? She was one of the first cannabis growers in New Zealand and distributed canna-based medical potions, as her Wikipedia page clearly states in English, but not in French. A holy stoner? Then it's easy to see why the Lord's waxes are inscrutable.

The University of Iowa wanted to ban t-shirts depicting a cannabis leaf to a group of students affiliated with NORML, one of the leading pro-cannabis associations in the United States. The college will have to pay the students 150000$ in damages and all their legal fees (over 200000$) for infringement of freedom of expression.