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Simplifya Announces the Appointment of Mercury Payment Systems Inc. and MassPay Incorporated Cofounder Jeffrey B. Katz to Its Board of Directors

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Regulatory and Operational Compliance Software Company as It Prepares to Launch the Cannabis Industry’s Most Compliant, Cyber-Secure B2B and Retail Consumer Payment Solution. In 2001, Jeff Katz co-founded MPS and aligned with POS developers and resellers to deliver payment processing to restaurateurs and retailers.

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Malta: Prison over 0.02 grams of cannabis, and a 20-year wait for justice to be served

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Arrested in 2001 but arraigned 18 months later, Eugenio Camenzuli posted a guilty plea on his first sitting in 2006, but spent 20 years before an appeal overturned a prison sentence for just 0.02g of cannabis. Eugenio Camenzuli had been 43 when he was arrested for cultivating the plant in 2001. Malta Today reports.

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Political Parties In Portugal Propose Adult Use Laws

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In 2001, the country decriminalised the personal possession of all drugs as part of a wider initiative focused on public health. Portugal has long taken a progressive approach towards drug policy. Person’s caught with drugs for personal use do not face the risk of a criminal record or jail time.

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Obituary: Renowned medical cannabis advocate Tomáš Zábranský passes at age 52

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in epidemiology, hygiene, and preventive medicine from the same university in 2001. A graduate of the Medical Faculty of Palacky University, Olomouc, in 1993, Zábranský received his Ph.D He was a past Hubert H. Humphrey-NIDA Research Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the USA.

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Portuguse medical cannabis exports increase by 600% says new report

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In 2001 Portugal was in fact the first European state to decriminalize the use of all narcotic substances and in February 2019 the law authorizing the cultivation and export of cannabis came into force.

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP: Canada: 2019 Canadian Federal Budget Commentary – Tax Initiatives

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In an effort to simplify compliance and to adjust to new products, Budget 2019 proposes that the new classes of cannabis products be subject to excise duties under the Excise Act, 2001 based on the quantity of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) compound found in the final product. per milligram of total THC.

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Open Access Govt: The UK’s doomed Medical Cannabis (Access) Bill

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2018 saw the apparent legalisation of medicinal cannabis in the UK, through the rescheduling of cannabis-based medicines from Schedule 1 (controlled drugs with little or no medicinal or therapeutic use) to Schedule 2 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.

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