Cannabis Law Report
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
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.
Cannabis Law Report
AUGUST 19, 2021
His idea was to associate marijuana with crime and thus activate the prohibitionist laws that began to be in force in the state of California in 1913 and with the passage of time were spreading nationwide, making Mexico passed the law against marijuana in 1920 and with it its production, consumption and export.
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Canna Law Blog
AUGUST 25, 2020
The outfit actually began in response to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) scheduling MDMA, more or less, which happened on an “emergency” basis in 1985 (you can view MAPS’ impressive archive and play-by-play on all of that here ). The drug caught DEA’s attention when recreational use proliferated. Just kidding!
Canna Law Blog
AUGUST 25, 2020
The outfit actually began in response to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) scheduling MDMA, more or less, which happened on an “emergency” basis in 1985 (you can view MAPS’ impressive archive and play-by-play on all of that here ). The drug caught DEA’s attention when recreational use proliferated. Just kidding!
Cannabis Law Report
MARCH 3, 2022
Yet in an exit interview published by Rolling Stone in 2000, Clinton appeared to endorse cannabis reform, saying that he thinks that “most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be.”. He also rejected requests to lift a federal ban on harm reduction policies like syringe exchange programs.
PrestoDoctor
JULY 16, 2019
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). When it comes to cannabis reform groups, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws is almost always one of the first to come up. The DPF changed its name in 2000 when it merged with the Ethan Nadelmann’s Lindesmith Center.
PrestoDoctor
JULY 16, 2019
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). When it comes to cannabis reform groups, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws is almost always one of the first to come up. The DPF changed its name in 2000 when it merged with the Ethan Nadelmann’s Lindesmith Center.
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