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Avalanche signs goaltender Kevin Mandolese to one-year contract
Related Articles One day after completing a trade for the rights to Kevin Mandolese, the Avalanche and the 23-year-old goaltender agreed to a one-year contract, the team announced Tuesday. Mandolese signed a two-way contract worth $775,000, a league source told The Denver Post, with the Canadian netminder likely to compete with Trent Miner for playing […]
Trio of Avalanche stars among players added to 2025 4 Nations Face-Off rosters
Related Articles On his first day as the reigning NHL most valuable player, Colorado Avalanche superstar Nathan MacKinnon had one of his long-standing wishes come true. MacKinnon is going to get his chance to represent Canada in a best-on-best international tournament at the men’s senior level for the first time in his career. He, along […]
Avalanche Journal: Assessing potential options for Colorado’s No. 24 pick, an “unreal asset”
Related Articles Chris MacFarland could use another couple of days at the NHL draft like he experienced a year ago. The Colorado Avalanche general manager won’t have some of the same tools available to him to help reshape his current roster, but MacFarland and his club could certainly use an impact prospect, some present help […]
Ex-NHL player Kyle Quincey is building a psychedelic retreat center in Colorado for athletes, military
Quincey, who left the NHL with more than a dozen concussions, said there are more similarities between athletes and military than one might expect.
6 Steps To Cannabis Stock Investing
As Riley Cote took and delivered countless punches over more than a decade of junior and pro hockey, he was eager to avoid painkillers.
Former NHL Hockey Player Starts Hemp Organization
While it is common for professional athletes to turn to charitable work after they leave athletics, former NHL player Riley Cote is in uncharted waters. The ex-Philadelphia Flyer has decided to start organize a concert festival called “Hemp Heals”. His view on hemp has been inspired by his sister and the healing she has found with hemp food products. Cote’s sister suffers from MS. The concert/festival will be held today so anyone in the Philadelphia area is encouraged to attend. Hemp Heals aimed at promoting hemp awareness and education and will include high profile musical acts such as Sublime with Rome and longtime activists Cypress Hill. Cote said he was not “a pothead” though did say he believed in the effectiveness of medical marijuana. However, he seems inclined to focus on the many benefits of hemp. Recently he said “People are foreign to it, but hemp is a superfood, like almonds. It’s full of protein and fiber. I’m promoting industrial hemp as an eco-friendly material for clothing and a healthy food option.” Cote currently coaches the minor league hockey team “The Adirondack Phantoms” and looks as if his free time from coaching will be filled up with hemp activism.
Update on International Marijuana Issues
Support for marijuana reform seems to be growing all around America. As marijuana.net has suggested previously, President Barack Obama has been getting pressured on the issue an awful lot lately. Marijuana’s benefits are not simply a domestic issue and there have been interesting updates from around the globe.
Over the weekend, marijuana.net briefly spoke about a new trend in professional sports that refreshingly was not about inflating ticket prices, player salaries or owner profits. The NBA has already decided not to test its players for marijuana in the offseason and the Detroit Lions‘ general manager Martin Mayhew has indicated that he is not overly concerned with his players being arrested for marijuana. Building on this trend internationally, Australia’s Coalition of Major Professional and Participation Sports has recently said that marijuana should not be grouped with performance enhancing drugs such as steroids or Human Growth Hormone. Unlike the United States (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS etc.), Australia has one organization that represents many of the different professional sports. As Martin Mayhew suggested, the culture is changing and athletes in their prime are in their 20s. Altering the approach professional sports takes on marijuana seems to be very crucial moving forward.
We have already witnessed the pressure put on the United States and President Obama from our neighbors to the south to change marijuana laws. Now, mayors from British Columbia cities in Canada are also calling for a new approach to cannabis law enforcement. Eight mayors are now officially calling for marijuana legalization in order to reduce crime and violence associated with cannabis laws. The mayors are also seeking to generate tax funds from a regulated marijuana system.
In particular, Mayor Gregor Robertson of Vancouver recently stated in a letter to the Canadian government, “As mayors of BC municipalities, we are fully aware of the harms stemming from the province’s large illegal marijuana industry, “Our communities have been deeply affected by the consequences of marijuana prohibition including large-scale grow-ops, increased organized crime and ongoing gang violence. It is time to tax and strictly regulate marijuana under a public health framework; regulating marijuana would allow the government to rationally address the health concerns of marijuana, raise government tax revenue and eliminate the huge profits from the marijuana industry that flow directly to organized crime.”
It is great to see a progressive approach from other countries even though the Netherlands seems to be trying to uphold their recent ban on allowing tourists to purchase marijuana. The plan is controversial and may cripple Holland tourism so it will be interesting to see if the ban remains permanently. If the ban on Amsterdam coffee shops hurts the Dutch economy, will the United States take note? Even with tough talk from the feds it seems that marijuana has gotten over the hump and moved into mainstream acceptability.