Extroverting
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Computer & Data Science Opportunities in California
The explosive growth of the cannabis industry means the public and private sectors are both looking to hire candidates skilled in Computer Science, Data Science, and Analytics. The State of California needs skilled employees to create the licensing and regulatory infrastructure required for the commercial cultivation, manufacturing, transportation, distribution and sale of medical and adult recreational-use cannabis. California’s Department of Consumer…
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High Times in the Low Lands
The VOC (Dutch East India Company, 1602-1789) had the monopoly to trade with ‘the East’ and it was there they found opium to bring back to the homeland. About 100 years after that first trade, a special commission was formed to regulate the use of the substance. At the urging of the US, the International…
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Speak Easy of The Forbidden Cannabis
Half-baked ideas and the policy of tolerance When a government enacts laws sharply restricting or prohibiting a substance, it gives rise to black market enterprise and organized crime. A restrictive government also loses their ability to regulate and tax the substance. Holland enacted laws to regulate and tax cannabis. The rest is history, as they…