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MG Magazine Reports On Luke Scarmazzo: California’s Last Federal Medical Marijuana Prisoner

Cannabis Law Report

A victim of flawed federal law enforcement policy, he remains behind bars in the federal prison at Yazoo City, Mississippi. Luke Scarmazzo: If you’d told me that when we opened the dispensary in 2004, I would have said no way we’d still be incarcerating people for cannabis seventeen years later. It’s ridiculous.

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

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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.

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Vermont’s Cannabis Board Rejects Proposed 15% THC Cap on Cannabis

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Vermont has already introduced a potency cap for its looming recreational cannabis legalization market, with flower capped at 30% and THC and concentrates capped at 60%. Recreational Cannabis Sales in Vermont Set to Begin in May . Medical cannabis was legalized 14 years prior in 2004. Introduced by Reps.

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Is weed legal in Switzerland?

The Cannigma

Medical: legal Recreational: decriminalized. Minors under the age of 18 can still face legal proceedings under Swiss juvenile criminal law. In September, 2020, the Swiss parliament passed regulations to allow for pilot schemes involving recreational cannabis. What Swiss law permits medical patients?

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Is weed legal in Greece?

The Cannigma

Medical: legal Recreational: illegal. The following year, Greek lawmakers approved a law to allow the cultivation and processing of medical cannabis with up to 0.2% Under Greek law, anyone arrested for possession of cannabis for personal use can be punished with imprisonment of up to 5 months between 10 days to 5 years and/or a fine.

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Legalizing Marijuana Leads To Fewer Illegal Grow Sites In National Forests, Study Finds

Cannabis Law Report

Arguably,” the study authors write, “our models hint that outright, national recreational cannabis legalization would be one means by which illegal growing on national forests could be made to disappear.”. “[W]e Meanwhile, an increase in law enforcement presence only made a slight difference (a 2.5 Read on at [link]. The Report.

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After Uruguay and Canada, who will be next to legalise cannabis?

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When Uruguay legalised cannabis for recreational purposes in 2013, it was difficult to imagine that five and a half years later, a G8 nation like Canada would be taking the next step in this direction. The USA’s southern neighbour could soon pass a law that would regulate growing and selling as early as mid-2019. Switzerland.