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Far Beyond the Spanish Cannabis Scene: Spannabis 2019

Canna Law Blog

It’s amazing to experience such an impressive international gathering like Spannabis taking place in a country where, regardless of the massive cannabis culture and high social tolerance, legislation on the matter is way behind, and keeps criminalizing and punishing anything that goes beyond private consumption and self-growing.

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Article – Reed Smith: UK: Cannabis In The UK – A Regulatory Environment In Transition?

Cannabis Law Report

19 August 2019. Recently, three British MPs went to Canada on a fact-finding cross-party trip to consider the effects of a more relaxed regulatory environment in respect of cannabis. A novel food is “any food that was not used for human consumption to a significant degree within the Union before 15 May 1997”.

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Frost Brown Todd Update: The latest hemp laws state-by-state: September 2019

Cannabis Law Report

Alabama passed legislation , which took effect in June 2019, expanding its definition of hemp and removing hemp from the definition of THC. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment now requires that hemp food products be labeled with certain information. Alabama already exempted hemp from its definition of marijuana.

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Weekly Legislative Roundup 3/1/18

NORML

In Congress this week Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), along with Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Ro Khanna (D-CA), introduced The Marijuana Justice Act of 2019, to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and incentivize states to end the racially disparate criminalization of marijuana consumers. CO resident? GA resident?

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Sacramento city council approves new rules to allow dispensary owners to sell their business

Cannabis Law Report

Dispensary owners have complained that an outright city ban on dispensary transfers or sales was unfair, but the rules were imposed in November 2019 after The Sacramento Bee disclosed that one business group had acquired a third of the city’s dispensaries despite prior city transfer prohibitions.

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UK: Assoc For The Cannabinoid Industry Founder Says UK World’s Biggest Market After The US

Cannabis Law Report

Legal cannabis consumption and it isn’t even legal yet. Britain’s Food Standards Agency now regulates the sector and its marketing, after the European Union classified CBD as food in 2019. That was almost a third higher than the UK trade group’s pre-pandemic 2019 projection.

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Weekly Legislative Roundup 2/22

NORML

Regulate Nationally : The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2019 (HR 420) seeks to deschedule cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act, thus permitting state governments to regulate these activities as they see fit. Update : Both bills are scheduled for a public hearing in the Joint Committee on Environment on 3/1. CT resident?