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Grading the Presidential Candidates on Marijuana: Michael Bloomberg

Canna Law Blog

Last fall, we ran a 13-part series taking a hard look at each of the 2020 presidential candidates’ history and views related to marijuana. Past legislative history : How many marijuana-related bills did this candidate introduce, sponsor or sign? He won reelection in 2005 and again in 2009. What about the War on Drugs?

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California: Department of Cannabis Control Names Leadership Team

Cannabis Law Report

Previously, she was Director of the Office of Cannabis for the City and County of San Francisco’s General Services Agency from 2017 to 2019, where she served as Project Manager in 2017. Lee served as Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary for the Office of Governor Gavin Newsom from 2019 to 2021. Chief Deputy Director – Rasha Salama.

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Grading the Presidential Candidates on Marijuana: Overall Rankings

Canna Law Blog

Past legislative history : How many marijuana-related bills did this candidate introduce, sponsor or sign? We considered the legislative history of each candidate to determine whether they would be likely to take real action to legalize marijuana as president. Klobuchar’s legislative history is also disappointing.

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US to ban Backwoods, Swishers and other flavored blunt wraps

SpeedWeed

Criminalization of menthol cigarettes “really scares me,” Maritza Perez, director of national affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance, told reporter Marc Gunther. “It Are we repeating history? The FDA said their flavored cigarette ban in 2009 might also have drove blunt wrap adoption. We can avoid this approach,” the ACLU tweeted.

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Italy: MINISTRY OF HEALTH DECREE – Definition of maximum levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in food

Cannabis Law Report

DECREE 4 November 2019 . European Union legislation and policies "; Having regard to Regulation (EEC) no. on monitoring the common agricultural policy and repealing i. common agricultural policy and repealing regulation (EC) no. 73/2009 of the Council and in. 73/2009 of the Council and in. 20A00016). (OJ

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Is weed legal in the UK?

The Cannigma

The UK government made the decision i n 2004 to reclassify cannabis from a Class B to Class C drug, but the decision was rescinded in 2009. This follows a report from 2019 that found that around 500 people are caught with cannabis by Scottish police each month and are released with a warning.

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Paper: The transition of cannabis into the mainstream of Australian healthcare: framings in professional medical publications

Cannabis Law Report

Using a content analysis approach, we investigated articles about medicinal cannabis from 2000 to the end of 2019 in the Medical Journal of Australia, Australian Doctor , Medical Observer , Australian Journal of General Practice , Australian Family Physicia n , and Australian Medicine. 2019 ; Sarris et al. 2016 ; Sznitman et al.