Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Stance on marijuana: This past December, Bloomberg’s campaign told the Wall Street Journal that he supports the decriminalization of marijuana. He won reelection in 2005 and again in 2009. After we concluded the series, businessman and former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his entry in to the race.

Marijuana

The Cannigma

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Medical: Legal Recreational: Decriminalized. Cannabis has been decriminalized in the Netherlands since 1976. That said, the country does not prosecute for the offense because the Netherlands “ has a policy of toleration regarding soft drugs. The system is better categorized as a sort of system of tolerated recreational use.

Law

Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2005, SCOTUS held that Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce authorized it “to prohibit the local cultivation and use of marijuana” in Gonzales v. 1, 5 (2005). But because of a public-policy provision in the Tax Code, companies that deal in controlled substances prohibited by federal law are treated differently.

Cultivation

Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 10, 2021

Marijuana policies in the United States have become more permissive, motivating research on demographic and policy-based differences in behaviors and attitudes towards driving after marijuana use. Marijuana policies in the United States (U.S.) Introduction.

Policy

Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Drug regulation in Chile is governed by Ley de Drogas from 2005. It took until the end of 2015 for president Michelle Bachelet to officially sign into law a medical cannabis policy, which allows prescribed use. In 2008, the laws were made more harsh because of illicit cannabis flowing into the country.

Recreational

Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

State opt-out- States’ rights would be preserved with the authority of states to set their own marijuana policies and keep it illegal, but states would not be able to stop product from being transported through their state. Jimmy McMillan became somewhat infamous as a NYC Mayoral candidate in 2005 and 2009 (he also ran for Governor in 2018).

Banking

Veriheal

JULY 19, 2022

On June 9, an announcement published in the Royal Gazette confirmed that Thailand had become the first Southeast Asian country to decriminalize cannabis. This policy change legally allows Thailand’s cannabis industry to form. The ruling meant that cannabis was erased from the category 5 narcotics list. kg of heroin to Australia.

Decriminalization