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Tax Court’s decision in Harborside A Big Challenge For CA Cannabis Dispensaries

Cannabis Law Report

million for the fiscal years 2007 through 2012. Steve DeAngelo, Harborside’s co-founder and Chairman Emeritus, also commented, “Harborside’s policy towards the federal government has always been to exhaust all reasonable available legal options to pursue justice. The Harborside opinion approves the use of IRC Sec.

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A Founder Looks at 50: Willie Nelson — America’s Favorite Marijuana Smoker

NORML

Willie Nelson plays at 2007 Freedom Fest NORML benefit concert. We introduced Willie to the senators, some of whom he had met through his Farm Aid work, and Willie would lay out the key provisions we thought were most important to include in the next farm bill, a legislative package that covered five years at a time.

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Section 280E and The Taxation of Cannabis Businesses

Cannabis Law Report

1] The expenses included rent, packaging, telephone, automobile expenses and the purchase of a small scale. [2] 2007) (“CHAMP”). I), supra at 309 (1982) (“There is a sharply defined public policy against drug dealing. 173, 182 (2007). [16] 173, 174 (2007) (“CHAMP”). [20] TWO LANDMARK CASES. CCH) 1533 (T.C.

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Perfecting cannabis with Michael Backes

The Cannigma

Their beautiful packaging and marketing will put a link in the show notes. CP: See when it was packaged. They bought it from your dispensary in Eagle Rock in 2007, and it’s still in their nightstand. I guess it’s interesting, because it’s not on the package insert of these products. CP: There you go.

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Major Cannabis Tremors

Cannabis Law Report

was the entry of the DECISIONS in United States Tax Court cases involving Harborside’s federal income tax liabilities for the years 2007-2012. We know little about cultivation, testing, packaging, etc. The event that occurred in Washington, D.C. Harborside has put a brave face on its loss Tax Court loss.

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CDC study finds teen pot treatment admissions plummeted

SpeedWeed

Beau Kilmer, director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center, and a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation said: “With respect to recreational cannabis legalization, the bulk of the peer-reviewed research suggests that it’s not associated with an increase in the past-month prevalence so far, and some studies suggest a decrease.”.

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New Mexico poised to become the next legal cannabis state

SpeedWeed

New Mexico is joining a wave of states that are legalizing recreational marijuana as its Democrat-dominated Legislature sent a package of cannabis bills Wednesday to a supportive governor. . Medical since 2007. The state’s medical marijuana program founded in 2007 has attracted more than 100,000 patients. SANTA FE, N.M. —