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

Cannabis Law Report

Though it joined the European Union in 2004, Lithuania remained for several years the only country in the EU that criminalized even the cultivation of hemp – the non-psychoactive variety of the plant. The law also allows the sale of products made from hemp but only if they contain zero THC.

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The DEA Does Not Want You To Worry About Its New Hemp Rule. Don’t Take the Bait!

Canna Law Blog

Specifically asking about the idea of the agency shutting down machinery in the middle of processing material to check if the contents had spiked over the legal THC threshold. There is no doubt that the opioid epidemic is a more pressing issue than the legality of hemp derivatives. I do not buy this misdirection for a minute.

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CBD Ban: Brits Take Up Fight And Send Lawyers To Brussels

Cannabis Law Report

Cannabis lawyers are heading to Brussels next week to challenge a recent decision by the European Union to reclassify food products containing cannabidiol (CBD) and prohibit their sale. This applies to both the extracts themselves and any products to which they are added as an ingredient (such as hemp seed oil).”. AUTHOR: Mark Taylor.

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Is weed legal in Greece?

The Cannigma

Medical: legal Recreational: illegal. In July, 2017, a joint ministerial decision between the Ministers of Health and Justice legalized medical marijuana in Greece, and changed the classification of cannabis from a Table A drug to a Table B drug. A survey carried out in 2004 found that 8.6% overall had used cannabis.

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Pot in Vermont: The Latest on the Recreational Legalization Front

The Joint Blog

Vermont became the first state to legalize marijuana with a legislative vote rather than a ballot initiative. While a good first step, there is still much ground to be covered in terms of true recreational legalization. In 2018, the state of Vermont passed a legislative vote to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.

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California: Which Set of Books?

Cannabis Law Report

of Tax and Fee Administration [“CDTFA”] is the administrative agency for business entities that are subject both to Sales Tax, and to Cannabis Cultivation TAX [“CCT”] and Cannabis Excise Tax [“CET”]. The predecessor to CDTFA, the Board of Equalization [“BOE”] was the agency that administered Sales Tax before CCT and CET.

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10 badass sustainable cannabis flowers, joints, hash, and more

SpeedWeed

The exploding legal cannabis market operates under regulations that protect them from law enforcement, but also complicate farmers’ traditional methods of doing things: more waste is produced in complying with seed-to-sale tracking, which includes tagging every single plant with a plastic card detailing its crop and batch information.

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