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Nevada NORML Takes Washington, DC

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However, this time, they’ve taken their advocacy to our nation’s capital for NORML’s National Conference to lobby for reform on the federal level and expanded access to medicinal cannabis, such as The MORE Act and the Veterans Affairs Medicinal Cannabis Research Act of 2019. ” said Tina Ulman, Communications Director.

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Illinois university students create ‘cannabis clubs’

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Heim, who also works at Cookies Bloomington , plans more advocacies for the plant and cannabis cardholders in the area. I was expelled from high school in 2000 for having cannabis on me and have carried that stigma with me for a very long time,” Heim said, “so this is a very personal mission to me.”

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Podcast:Delta 8, CBD, 1% THC, And Other Issues Affecting The Hemp Industry: A Conversation With Eric Steenstra

Cannabis Law Report

In this edition of The 411 on 420, Perkins Coie partner Barak Cohen discusses hemp’s complicated past and promising future with Eric Steenstra, founding member of the Hemp Industries Association, Vice President of the California Hemp Council and President of Vote Hemp, the political advocacy organization that he co-founded in 2000.

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NORML Publish Book Summarizing Hundreds of Studies Assessing the Safety and Efficacy of Cannabis for Patients ….Now Available on Kindle

Cannabis Law Report

NORML is pleased to announce that its newly updated and revised publication, Clinical Applications for Cannabis & Cannabinoids: A Review of the Recent Scientific Literature, 2000 — 2021 , is now available for download on the Kindle app. Proceeds from the purchase of the new book directly fund NORML’s cannabis advocacy efforts.

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Nevada Rules That the Schedule I Classification of Cannabis Is Unconstitutional

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” Since 2000 , when regulated medical cannabis became available to patients in the state, the Nevada State Board of Pharmacy has continued to list cannabis alongside other illicit substances such as methamphetamine and heroin. Luckily, the smokescreen is lifting, and people are learning the truth regarding cannabis.

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California cannabis tax program helps communities recover from the war on drugs

Cannabis Law Report

The policies and tangent rhetoric led to increasing incarceration of people of color, with African Americans being up to 57 times more likely to be incarcerated than their white counterparts for drug crimes in 2000.

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NORML: “Analysis: Racial Disparities in Marijuana Possession Arrests Becoming More Pronounced in Prohibition States”

Cannabis Law Report

A team of researchers affiliated with Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk and with Saint Louis University in Missouri assessed marijuana possession arrest trends for White people and for and Black people over a 20-year span (January 2000-December 2019) in states with and without marijuana policy changes.