Cannabis Law Report

JULY 26, 2021

Rahul Gupta, the nominee for director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), worked as a consultant to Holistic Industries, a multi-state cannabis operator, for nine months in 2020. This is running as a popular story today in the US cannabis media. Marijuana Moment reports. Read the full story at .

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Canna Law Blog

MAY 10, 2024

In response, the Minnesota legislature has acted quickly to allow an avenue for early cultivation providing key guidance for the forthcoming Minnesota legal cannabis market. The main issue surrounds how legal retailers could open for business if they do not have any legal cannabis products to sell.

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CannaMD

MARCH 19, 2020

To that, end we’ve organized official policies – including delivery details and more – for all Florida dispensaries , below. We pride ourselves on the cleanliness and sanitary conditions of our facilities and dispensaries and have an ongoing Safety Policy Plan to assure sanitary production facilities. Hand sanitizing stations.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 10, 2021

The two-year PEIR process would cover all potential uses including retail, distribution, testing, manufacturing, indoor and outdoor cultivation, and microbusinesses. ” As the county moves closer to voting on a revamped marijuana policy, Board Chairman Nathan Fletcher described Wednesday’s action as a challenge.

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SpeedWeed

AUGUST 24, 2021

The awards program will identify and recognize the best employers in cannabis cultivation and dispensary markets, continuing the recognition the media brands debuted two years ago. Read more about the cultivation and dispensary businesses that ranked in the 2021 program and were featured in Cannabis Business Times and Cannabis Dispensary.

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NORML

JUNE 25, 2019

Pritzker has signed legislation legalizing the adult use of marijuana and regulating its commercial production and retail sale. Patients enrolled in the state’s medical cannabis program will be legally permitted for the first time to personally cultivate up to five marijuana plants. Illinois Gov.

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Canna Law Blog

MAY 31, 2023

New York’s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) announced they plan to allow conditional cultivators and retailers to organize and sell weed at farmers’ markets this summer. Cannabis cultivators possess an estimated excess of millions of dollars worth of product that they need to unload. “A

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 2, 2021

Not long ago, most cities would force cannabis retailers into less desirable industrial zones, as if the marijuana industry represented an eyesore.

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Project CBD

JUNE 16, 2023

One in five cultivators have voluntarily surrendered their licenses this year. A 2022 report estimated that licensed California cannabis distributors are sitting on over $600 million dollars in aging accounts receivable that retailers are unable or unwilling to pay. Over 60% of jurisdictions in California have banned cannabis retail.

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MMJ Recs

MARCH 16, 2024

This burgeoning industry encompasses a wide range of activities, including cultivation, processing, distribution, and retail sales of medical cannabis products. Policy decisions related to taxation, zoning, and advertising also impact the industry’s operations and growth trajectory.

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Canna Law Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

But California is a prime example of failed policy which legislators and regulators seem intent on making worse. California’s cannabis tax scheme was destined to fail from the start From inception, California decided to tax cannabis at both ends by imposing a tax on cultivated plants, and an excise tax on retail.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Earlier today, OMP made available, on its publicly accessible website, a new form intended to document the transfer of research and development (R&D) samples between cultivation, manufacturing, or retail licensees and testing facilities operating in the AUMP.

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 27, 2024

Despite continuously surpassing every other state with recreational cannabis in terms of total retail sales, California’s cannabis industry has faced continuous and far-reaching issues on multiple levels that have only spread even further. The rallying cry, “Nobody should go to jail for a plant,” must now evolve.

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SpeedWeed

JULY 21, 2021

RELATED: A Snapshot of Nevada’s Cannabis Retail Market: Q&A with the Nevada Dispensary Association. The NDA launched roughly five years ago as an advocacy and trade association for the retail segment of the market but has recently expanded to include cannabis cultivators and distributors. Then, it’s ebbed and flowed.”.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 18, 2019

Alaska voters legalized recreational marijuana use in 2014, but it took about 18 months for the first cultivators to be licensed and open their doors. When they did, they began paying into the cultivation tax that Alaska assesses on commercially grown marijuana. million in taxes. million in 2018, up from about $57.5

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Canna Law Blog

JULY 7, 2023

Rather than do the obvious thing and let cultivators drive it to manufacturers, for example, our state decided to create the concept of distribution licenses. They’d collect the cultivation tax from cultivators. They’d collect the excise tax from retailers. They’d collect the excise tax from retailers.

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Canna Law Blog

JULY 21, 2023

New York’s Office of Cannabis Management ( OCM ) previously announced a plan to allow conditional cultivators and retailers to organize and sell weed at farmers’ markets this summer, along with other state and locally approved locations. However, that idea was struck down by Governor Hochul.

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Veriheal

AUGUST 29, 2023

This decision by the state’s Cannabis Control Board was made to help cannabis cultivators earn a return on their investment. This is because the state has a rather complicated licensing system, making it hard for retailers to get a license. Firstly, farmers must receive permission from the municipalities for the festival.

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

We do not yet know how courts will treat the purported trademark rights owned by cannabis businesses, but the ongoing litigation between Harvest Dispensaries Cultivation & Production Facilities, LLC, based out of Arizona (I’ll refer to them as “Harvest of Arizona”), and Harvest on Geary, Inc. Harvest Off Mission, Inc.,

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 9, 2022

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. million) | Tax rate: 15% wholesale, 15% special retail. Colorado’s 15% wholesale excise tax and its 15% special retail tax do not apply to those sales.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Mr Crow will develop further expertise in the cultivation, manufacturing, science, and policy of hemp and will travel to Nepal, India, Israel, Ukraine, Netherlands, Canada and USA. Mr Crow is the Chief Executive and owner of Hemp Harvests, the only hemp seed processing facility in Tasmania, with wholesale and retail channels.

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Veriheal

JUNE 27, 2023

CAURD (Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensaries) dispensaries are slow to open across the state of New York, causing a backup in the cannabis supply chain. This has led cultivators to store the fruits of their labor—in this case, weed. Retail cannabis was legalized in 2021. At least, that’s one version of the story.

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Canna Law Blog

MAY 9, 2023

.” This underscores a point we have made more than once in these pages regarding the insufficiency of decriminalization-only as a cannabis policy. ” It also prevents taxation of marijuana-related activities: The Act establishes a 15% levy on retail sales of marijuana. .”

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NORML

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Senate Bill 686 seeks to legalize the use, possession, cultivation, and retail sale of small amounts of marijuana for adults. House Bill 481 seeks to allow for the use, possession, and retail sale of marijuana by adults. This bill does not allow for home cultivation or expungement of prior convictions. New Hampshire.

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Canna Law Blog

JULY 8, 2022

The cannabis market is defined by how much cannabis can be cultivated, produced and sold in each state. In many states like California, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington, the number of cultivators is far greater than the number of licensed retailers. Availability of black market unlicensed cannabis.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 12, 2021

The six winners were selected from nominations of cannabis industry professionals from cultivation and/or vertically integrated companies (with cultivation and retail operations) in North America. The 2021 Cannabis Leadership Awards winners are: Ngiste Abebe – VP of Public Policy, Columbia Care. 24-26, 2021.

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Greenspoon Marder Cannabis Law Group Blog

AUGUST 6, 2019

The National Football League (NFL) preseason is upon us, and though the players may have changed, the league’s strict cannabis policies have not. According to a report from NBC Sports , “the NFL is prepared to make major concessions regarding the substance-abuse policy, especially as it relates to marijuana.”

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Veriheal

JANUARY 3, 2023

In March 2021, the state also further reformed cannabis laws by legalizing the retail use of cannabis. The first Conditional Adult Use Retail Dispensary licenses, or CAURD licenses, for retail cannabis retailers were approved by the Cannabis Control Board (CCB) in late November.

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NORML

JANUARY 6, 2020

A proposed measure legalizing and regulating the adult use and retail sale of marijuana in South Dakota has qualified for the 2020 ballot. The measure permits individuals 21 and older to possess and purchase up to an ounce of cannabis and creates a system to license and regulate retail marijuana businesses.

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NORML

JANUARY 19, 2020

The US House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health will hold a legislative hearing entitled “Cannabis Policies for the New Decade.” ” This marks the first time that members of the Energy and Commerce Committee will hear and debate issues specific to marijuana policy reform. New Hampshire. NH resident?

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NORML

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Patients and their caregivers could also apply for a permit to cultivate and process their own cannabis for their own personal medicinal use, with undetermined restrictions to be left to regulations put forth by the OCM. It also creates on-site consumption licenses for retail facilities to apply for. development and hiring programs.

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

medical cannabis providers), including Acreage Holdings, PharmaCann, Green Thumb Industries and Curaleaf, two potential retail dispensary applicants and a medical cannabis practitioner. Thus, as of this writing, only four licensed adult-use retail dispensaries are open in the entire State of New York.11

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 1, 2022

The cannabis tax reform trailer bill will: Indefinitely suspend the cannabis cultivation tax effective July 1, 2022. Move cannabis excise-tax collection and remittance to retail in 2023, establishing one point of collection and remittance and greatly simplifying tax requirements for the entire cannabis supply chain. DCC Director.

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Canna Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2020

The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (“ 2018 Farm Bill ”) legalized hemp by removing the crop and its derivatives from the definition of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) and by providing a detailed framework for the cultivation of hemp. NYDAM’s policy document linked above does not clearly mention vapes.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 28, 2021

Whatever the merits of Raich when it was decided, federal policies of the past 16 years have greatly undermined its reasoning,” Thomas wrote. He wrote : “Whatever the merits of Raich [were] when it was decided, federal policies of the past 16 years have greatly undermined its reasoning. 20-645_9p6b.

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SpeedWeed

JULY 28, 2021

Colombia, one of the world’s largest cannabis producers in the 1960s and 1970s, and the world’s biggest supplier of cocaine, continues to change the country’s drug policy. The Ministry of Justice will continue to be responsible for issuing licenses for seeds for the cultivation of cannabis plants. View original article.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 14, 2021

We control our supply chain from cultivation to retail, which enables us to deliver clean and tested cannabis products at unmatched prices. We’re seeking an experienced Head of Government Affairs to assist the Chief Development Officer in the pursuit of retail expansion opportunities in California and other states.

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