NORML

APRIL 5, 2019

Under state law, adults face civil penalties for minor marijuana possession offenses. 333, to amend the state’s existing industrial hemp law to be in compliance with the new federal hemp regulations. Click here to email your lawmakers in support of banking access. Send a DE resident? FL resident?

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Otherside Farms

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A few decades ago, you couldn’t open a cannabis dispensary in any state without facing the wrath of the state laws. This is now a thing of the past in most states, thanks to the legalization of the sale and use of cannabis in these states. Your Dispensary Budget. Please read on. The Business Plan.

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SpeedWeed

JULY 16, 2021

The introduction of legislation that would federally decriminalize cannabis would have implications far beyond banking. Federal decriminalization would also enable manufacturing and then shipping across state lines, which would greatly benefit brands like Wana. Co-founder of Cresco Labs.

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NORML

MARCH 29, 2019

House Financial Services Committee has passed The Safe Banking Act, HR 1595 out of committee this week. Governor Jim Justice (R) of West Virginia signed legislation into law that allows financial institutions to provide banking services related to the state’s medical marijuana program. House Judiciary Committee.

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NORML

MAY 31, 2019

Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 225, to amend the state’s existing industrial hemp law to be in compliance with the new federal hemp regulations. The measure would allow additional dispensaries to operate in unincorporated areas of the state that are not within 25 miles of an existing dispensary.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 27, 2021

Most recently, Marshall was CFO of Shryne Group – a multi-state operator in the cannabis industry with operations in California, Michigan, Washington and Nevada, with a combined 10 operating dispensaries and revenues in excess of $100 million. federal law, nor will it provide a defense to any federal proceeding in the U.S.

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Canna Law Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

This burner license issue has gotten so bad that The Green Market Report recently detailed how a California cannabis entrepreneur found his own, branded cannabis products on the shelves of a New York dispensary. The dispensary let him know that it came from a “burner distro” in California.

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NORML

MARCH 22, 2019

House Financial Services Committee has scheduled to convene a markup on The Safe Banking Act, HR 1595 on Tuesday, March 26th. Activists in Oregon have filed a 2020 ballot initiative with the Secretary of State that, if approved, would allow social cannabis consumption sites and protect consumers from employment discrimination.

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NORML

APRIL 26, 2019

Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 225, to amend the state’s existing industrial hemp law to be in compliance with the new federal hemp regulations. The measure would allow additional dispensaries to operate in unincorporated areas of the state that are not within 25 miles of an existing dispensary.

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NORML

MAY 24, 2019

Click here to email your lawmakers in support of banking access. This measure prohibits employers from arbitrarily discriminating against prospective employees who legally consume cannabis off-the-job in accordance with state law. Update : SB 51 was approved by the Senate on 5/21/19, and now heads to the Assembly. CA resident?

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Marijuana Lawyer Blog

AUGUST 4, 2021

Controlled Substances Act, possession and sale for any reason remains a federal crime – and federal law supersedes state law. So if marijuana is still illegal in one state, it will remain so unless the state government opts to change that. Call us at 714-937-2050.

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NORML

MAY 17, 2019

Medical cannabis sales kicked off in Arkansas last Friday as the first dispensary opened its doors. Governor Jay Inslee (D) of Washington signed legislation into law to allow individuals with prior low-level cannabis convictions to apply to the sentencing court to have their record vacated. CA resident? ME resident? MO resident?

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Compliance with state laws is of little benefit when it comes to federal bankruptcy, banking, and tax codes. Cook Investments NW involved several real estate holding companies filing Chapter 11 in Washington State. As the cases make clear, it’s not only growers and dispensaries who need to be concerned.

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The CDC promoted a policy that prohibits employees from using marijuana while on the job but recognized that a zero-tolerance policy for marijuana use may not be possible, depending on the relevant state law. A town has the option to later opt back in; however, the state will be issuing a limited number of dispensary licenses.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Unlike Florida, Arkansas opted against vertical integration, instead authorizing separate dispensary licenses (up to 40) and cultivation facility licenses (up to eight). Arkansas dispensaries began serving qualified patients in 2019. Like Florida, Arkansas is a limited license regime.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Prior to getting involved in Tax Law, Dionne was a litigator for several years, representing Lenders, Banks and Servicers in Foreclosure actions. Setting up routes and ensuring compliance with both the Department of Transportation and state medical or adult-use marijuana laws is difficult.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 24, 2019

All it takes is a rival dispensary budtender or former employee to go to a profile and report it. BANKING: The growth? The Republican-controlled US Senate hosted a hearing on cannabis banking on July 23, 2019. In Who’s Now Lobbying on the SAFE Banking Act? ” BANKING: The setbacks? .

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NORML

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Senator Ron Wyden introduced legislation in the Senate — The Marijuana Revenue and Regulation Act — to permit states to establish their own marijuana regulatory policies free from federal interference. House Financial Services Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on cannabis business banking issues next week.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 5, 2019

This has had a significant impact on marijuana businesses operating in compliance with Maine law across the state. . As emergency legislation, the law would immediately go into effect (rather than becoming effective 90 days after adjournment) and will require approval by 2/3 of the State Legislature. .

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 15, 2022

In addition, the licensees must execute a management agreement with a third-party operator to manage and operate the remaining facilities that the department will continue to permit in compliance with state law. PSCs are categories on an RSF to classify business based on known areas of anti-money laundering compliance issues.

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Marijuana Lawyer Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

Attorney General said he’d favor a new bill protecting cannabis businesses and users from federal prosecution as long as they were in compliance with federal law. This measure has broad bipartisan support, as does another that would shield banks doing business with these companies from federal money laundering charges.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 24, 2019

Let’s begin with the following: STATES Act Becomes Law. The STATES Act passes in Congress, the President signs it and it becomes law which means that in the states where cannabis is legal : Banking system becomes available to cannabis businesses. See The Murky Part of the STATES Act: Tribal Rights ].

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Connor & Connor PLLC

AUGUST 30, 2018

a California medical marijuana dispensary, and denied Canna’s deductions for operating expenses, including significant amounts for employee salaries and vehicle expenses. The company appealed the IRS’ findings to the United States Tax Court. The dispensary sold smokable marijuana as well as edibles. Commissioner , T.C.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 27, 2019

Denver-based ONE Cannabis and Florida-based Miracle Leaf each claim to be awarding franchises to catapult their growth, the former franchising cannabis dispensaries and the latter medical marijuana clinics. Accidental franchisors have operated in franchising’s shadows ever since the arrival of franchise sales laws in the 1970s.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Laws protecting patients and their providers vary from state to state and, in some cases, may vary from county to county. Many individuals choose to break outdated state laws that do not account for medical use or their access. Dispensaries are adopting in-store surveillance systems to protect profits.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Venom Extracts’ product suite is a category leader in Arizona with over 4 million grams of cannabis sold in 2020, accounting for up to 30% of category sales state-wide (per BDS Analytics). Venom Extracts has strong brand recognition and distribution, with products in the vast majority of dispensaries in Arizona.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 30, 2019

Like the recent addition of a smokable flower route, these changes occur far too often for dispensaries, or patients, or even physicians to keep up. . Instead, medical marijuana physicians will provide patients with a medical marijuana recommendation or “ order ,” in strict compliance with Florida state law. .

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The sales prices of dispensaries are rising almost daily.”. States may have made it legal or decriminalized it, but federal law trumps state law, and for both medical and recreational use cannabis remains illegal.”. But lawyers should check their own state’s ethics opinions first.

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