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What Is the MORE Act, and How Could It Change Marijuana Policy Forever?

NORML

With marijuana off federal scheduling, individual states can decide for themselves how they’ll reform their weed laws, if they reform them at all. The excise taxes collected would go toward regulatory oversight, funding expungements and resentencing procedures, and researching how legal cannabis will affect the population at large.

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Kamala Harris Backs Biden’s Cannabis Pardons, Air Force Changes THC Testing Policy, and the DEA’s Dark Origins

Veriheal

Air Force changed its THC testing policy, and a DEA historian talked about the organization’s racist origins. Air Force (USAF) made some huge changes to its cannabis policy. In a press release late last month, the USAF announced its two-year pilot program that gives applicants who failed their initial THC test a chance to retest.

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Lawmakers Reintroduce Marijuana Data Collection Act To Congress

SpeedWeed

A bipartisan group of lawmakers from both houses of Congress reintroduced on Thursday the Marijuana Data Collection Act, a bill that would require the federal government to study the effects of legal cannabis. Congress and the American people need reliable facts on the impact of states’ legal marijuana programs.

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Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) Reports Says States Have Collected $US10 Billion In Cannabis Taxes So Far

Cannabis Law Report

Since 2014 when sales began in Colorado and Washington, legalization policies have provided states a new revenue stream to bolster budgets and fund important services and programs. Eight of the laws were approved in 2020 or 2021, and in seven of those states, sales and tax collections have not yet begun. 46,104,922.

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Canada: Ottawa has lost control of veterans’ medical cannabis program, audit finds

Cannabis Law Report

Ottawa has lost control of veterans’ medical marijuana program, audit finds. Collection of data and trends to inform policy. The result: Veterans Affairs spent more than $150 million on medical marijuana last year — more than on all other prescription drugs combined. Read full report. April 2022. Background.

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Maine: OMP Update – Adult Use Sample Collection Rulemaking/Metrc Best Practices, Precautions, and Reminders/ Important Tax Information for MMMP Registrants and AUMP Licensees + More

Cannabis Law Report

OMP Completes Adult Use Sample Collection Rulemaking On Friday, September 11, the Office of Marijuana Policy (OMP) adopted amendments to the Adult Use Marijuana Program … Read More.

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Researchers To Investigate Arkansas’ Medical Cannabis Program

Veriheal

The NIDA-funded investigation will delve into the health-related repercussions of Arkansas’ medical cannabis program , which was initially approved by voters back in 2016. ACHI identifies itself as a sovereign health policy center that was formed in 1998. Those two taxes, we’ve collected just under $50,000,000, 49.6