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Buffalo firefighter loses job over medical marijuana use. now in court

Cannabis Law Report

In 2009, Martin joined the Buffalo Fire Department, worked at different stations, before he accumulated enough seniority to land his dream job at the 1 st Platoon Truck 14. But he said by late last year his life got turned upside down in a dispute with the city and fire department. “I two_year_report_2016-2018.

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CCT CET: Responsible Persons, “Collection & Remittance of Cannabis Excise Tax [“CET”] & Cannabis Cultivation Tax [“CCT”]

Cannabis Law Report

The weakness relates to the collection and remittance of Cannabis Excise Tax [“CET”] and Cannabis Cultivation Tax [“CCT”]. When the Distributor role was created, the California Legislature decided to place the majority of the collection and remittance responsibility on it [1]. The amount of cultivation tax.

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Marijuana use among pregnant teens has spiked in California

THCFinder

Researchers from Kaiser Permanente Northern California in Oakland looked at data collected from 279,000 pregnant women who completed a screening for marijuana use as part of standard prenatal care. Across all age groups in the study, marijuana use by pregnant women saw a modest increase from 4 percent in 2009 to 7 percent in 2016.

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Study: Marijuana Use Trends In The United States

MassRoots

The study, authored by William Mitchell, Roma Bhatia, and Nazlee Zebardast, used data collected by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 2005 to 2018. . percent in 2009, making for a range of only 3.1 The lowest figure reported was 59.6 percent in 2005, and the highest was 62.7

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1 Kilogram of Cannabis Was the (Ultimate) Price of This Singaporean Man’s Life

Veriheal

The family is looking for a lawyer who will defend his innocence,” said a senior founding member at Singapore’s Transformative Justice Collective, Kokila Annamalai. Last year, an intellectually impaired Malaysian man named Nagaenthran Dharmalingam paid the ultimate penalty after being caught with three tablespoons of heroin in 2009.

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Cannabis Freedom Alliance Publish Their Inaugural Monthly Newsletter

Cannabis Law Report

A new report from the Marijuana Policy Project shows that states have collected $7.9 Cannabis legalization has not led to spikes in youth use, as a new survey from the National Center for Education Statistics displays just a 1% overall increase in youth use from 2009 to 2019. billion in 2020 alone.

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420-Friendly Cannabis Legalization Protest Zones Are Popping Up All Over Mexico Right Now

SpeedWeed

An organizer identified as Abraham told La Dosis , “The idea came from various collectives and people who are in the cannabis movement, with the intention of creating more spaces to smoke where a decriminalization that actually guarantees our rights can exist.” .