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LIFE FOR POT: Why Relief Is Needed For Incarcerated Cannabis Offenders

NORML

Those draconian sentences were handed down in the year 2000 by the District Court of the Northern District of Florida. Since those harsh sentences were handed down, 33 states have legalized the sale of cannabis in some form and 11 states and the District of Columbia have legalized it’s adult-use.

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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. Source: [link].

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Which States Are Voting on Psychedelics?

Veriheal

Johns Hopkins University first received regulatory approval for psychedelic research in the year 2000. Psilocybin Policies Around the Nation Let’s explore where psilocybin is legal, decriminalized, and on the ballot across U.S. Legal Colorado and Oregon are the only states allowing legal therapeutic psilocybin use today.

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Cannabis and Obesity: New study ties cannabis to lower rates of obesity

Veriheal

However, another stereotype-smashing study found that cannabis legalization is tied to lower obesity rates as more citizens and patients take to cannabis consumption. Adult-use Legalization is Associated with Decreased Levels of Obesity. percent lower…” compared to the pre-legalization years. from 2000-2020. .

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

Cannabis Law Report

CN) — A program outlined in Proposition 64, which legalized recreational marijuana use in 2016 in California, is to give back to those harmed by the War on Drugs. Courthouse News. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) The CalCRG program uses a cannabis excise and cultivation tax to give out $35.5 Did we know we were lying about the drugs?

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Canada: The Constitutional Right to Marijuana in Canada: R v Parker

Cannabis Law Report

R v Parker , [2000] OJ No 2787 (ONCA) at para 106. A decade after this shift in 2000, it was no longer career ending to admit that one had inhaled. Canada emerged as the first federal G7 and G20 nation – the second country ever – to legalize the cultivation and consumption of cannabis and its by-products.

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Alert: Invitation to Continued Discussion on Evaluating THC compounds: What is and is not “impairing”?

Cannabis Law Report

The public and the cannabis industry are invited to a June 21, 2022 discussion to help shape future policy and rules related to how LCB and state law will define what are “impairing” and “non-impairing” THC compounds and cannabinoids. A year ago, the LCB Board issued Policy Statement Number PS-21-01 about THC compounds.

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