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The Baltic Times: Cannabis policy reform in Lithuania: history, current status, and future challenges

Cannabis Law Report

The move is another small step in the direction of making cannabis policy more lenient toward consumers who may be otherwise law-abiding citizens. The law defines hemp as the plant with less than 0.2% The law defines hemp as the plant with less than 0.2% THC – the chemical that gives cannabis its characteristic effect (‘high’).

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What is Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome?

United Patients Group

of cannabis users but has only been described in peer-reviewed journals since 2004, when it was first reported by Australian physicians who were treating a woman with nausea and vomiting that occurred every time she smoked marijuana—but not when she ingested the plant in other ways or took other drugs together with cannabis!

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Cannabis regulations in Slovenia

The Cannigma

Cannabis is the most popular illicit drug in Slovenia, with an estimated 10% of the young adult population partaking, and the country has fairly progressive cannabis laws. Slovenia has a long history of cultivating industrial hemp. The same year, the government reclassified cannabinoids to make them available for medical use.

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Courts Deny Naturalization Petitions Due to Marijuana

Canna Law Blog

We often write of the pernicious effects of the War on Drugs in the criminal law context as well as its harmful impacts on the hemp and (state) legal marijuana industries. This post turns to another issue resulting from federal illegality – the inability of a lawful permanent resident to petition for naturalization and and become a U.S.

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Alexander Hymowitz: Medical Marijuana and Worker’s Compensation in New York

Cannabis Law Report

The issue in this case is whether an employer, under the workers compensation laws of New York, is required to reimburse a patient for medical marijuana, which was prescribed as a form of pain treatment? 1] [2] The Workers’ Compensation Law also requires that treatment be rendered in accordance with its Medical Treatment Guidelines.

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Is Cannabis/Hemp Legal in the United States?

Otherside Farms

Laws may change and this information may not be up to date. Please check with your state and local city laws to verify and information shown here. However, in 2004, there was a lawsuit against the Hemp Industries Association and the DEA. If you grow it without a license, you are breaking the law. Conditions.

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Says Current Federal Cannabis Prohibition is “Contradictory and Unstable”

Cannabis Law Report

He then went even further, describing the Colorado case that the Court declined to hear as a prime example of the fact that marijuana businesses do not experience “equal treatment” under the law. For almost two decades now, the Court has upheld and relied on its 2004 decision in Gonzales v. Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP.

Policy 105