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All Cannabis Use Is Political

The Cannigma

In fact, a well-funded and coordinated effort is underway to not only take those products away from you but also to dismantle the rights weve fought hard to secure under state laws and limited federal protections. Thats right there was a federal medical cannabis program way back in 1978. In 1992, however, President Bush Sr.

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Article – Faegre Baker Daniels: Key Considerations for U.K. Investment in the Legal Cannabis Industry Abroad

Cannabis Law Report

risk committing money laundering offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA). THC (legal term “marijuana”) is classified as a Schedule 1 drug and is illegal under federal law for any purpose (with the exception of FDA-approved research programs) by way of the Controlled Substances Act 1970. In the U.S.,

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Hollister Biosciences Inc. Announces strategic initiatives including a planned rebrand, executive and board updates

Cannabis Law Report

His corporate rise led him to be named one of the 50 most powerful black executives by Fortune in July of 2002. The Company, through several of its subsidiaries, is indirectly involved in the manufacture, possession, use, sale, and distribution of cannabis in the recreational and medicinal cannabis marketplace in the United States.

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Allen Russell Just Received Life in Prison for Possessing Weed in Mississippi

SpeedWeed

10 years after his break-in conviction, Mississippi changed state law to consider home burglary to be an automatic violent crime. . Chicago’s Craig Cesal was given a life sentence after showing up to service a truck that had been stuffed with 1,500 pounds of marijuana in 2002.

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Further Consideration of the STATES Act

Cannabis Law Report

Congress could pass a law that would legitimate marijuana activities, but only to the extent an individual or commercial enterprise acts within the letter of state law. State-compliant cannabis activity would no longer violate federal criminal law. 2, 2002 , 116 Stat. Emphasis added). 2(a), Oct.