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Cannabis Banking Today

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We are helping build out another cannabis banking program here in Oregon. In this post, I’ll sketch out some considerations for FIs looking at banking marijuana-related businesses – or, as they are known in the common parlance, “MRBs”. Here is my shorthand: “ Direct Marijuana Business.” That’s banking.

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New York Judge Halts CAURD Licensing and Approvals

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Kathy Hochul’s administration, accusing state officials of favoring convicted drug felons over disabled vets in the awarding of licenses to sell legal marijuana. To date, all the CAURD licenses went to “justice involved” individuals or partners of drug felons as well as applicants from other categories.

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Oregon Cannabis: State of the State (2023)

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Welcome to the eighth annual “State of the State” post on Oregon cannabis. We also saw the state’s first very-large-business failure, more trade association consolidation, and other altibajos as my mother-in-law might say. Nearly half, or 48.7%, of OLCC retail sales are “useable marijuana” (dried leaves and flower).

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Oregon Cannabis: What to Expect from OLCC This Fall

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Fall is always eventful in Oregon cannabis. Croptober is an Oregon cannabis tradition— hopefully the crops come in lee of any wildfires. Whether and when DOJ will release those findings — on potential corruption in the Secretary of State’s recent review of Oregon’s cannabis program — is anyone’s guess.

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Maine Medical Marijuana Businesses Deemed “Essential” In Light of Pandemic

Cannabis Law Report

Maine’s Office of Marijuana Policy (OMP) issued a memorandum today explaining that medical marijuana businesses are deemed “essential” and may continue operating despite the spread of COVID-19. Governor Mills urged “non-essential” public-facing businesses to close but medical marijuana businesses are exempt from this guidance.

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Cannabis Board Approves NY Marijuana Marketing Regulations

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The New York (“NY”) Cannabis Control Board recently approved regulations for Adult-Use Cannabis, including those applicable to packaging, labeling, marketing, advertising and laboratory testing. What do the NY Marijuana Marketing regulations cover? NY Marketing of Marijuana to Adults Only. 14 June 2022.

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Harris Bricken: Panama Set to Have Legal Medical Cannabis, But Hemp Bill Stalls

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Hemp is defined as cannabis whose THC content does not exceed 1.5% According to commentator Rafael Carles , it is ignorance when it comes to hemp and how it differs from marijuana that is behind the delays. Now it is with drugs, but with a different name, calling the marijuana plant hemp.”. on a dry weight basis.

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