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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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Study: Marijuana Use Trends In The United States

MassRoots

Researchers examined data from before and after the majority of states adopted legislation legalizing at least some form of cannabis. 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. .

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Marijuana use among pregnant teens has spiked in California

THCFinder

California already has the world’s largest pot economy and the state is preparing to legalize recreational sales on Jan. 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.

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

SpeedWeed

As the legislative process behind legalizing cannabis continues to drag on , more and more “tolerance zones” built by cannabis activists are popping up around the country and inviting cannabis users to consume on-site in the name of federal legalization. . The latest, reports La Dosis magazine, is in the heart of Mexico City. .

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US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: “Crash rates jump in wake of marijuana legalization, new studies show”

Cannabis Law Report

Here’s what they are saying… More evidence is emerging that crash rates go up when states legalize recreational use and retail sales of marijuana. Objectives: The objective of this study was to estimate the effects of marijuana legalization on injury and fatal traffic crash rates in the United States during the period 2009–2019.

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Cannabis Freedom Alliance Publish Their Inaugural Monthly Newsletter

Cannabis Law Report

Pursuing a tax regime that allows legal cannabis to compete with and ultimately eliminate the illicit market. CFA to Issue Recommendations for Federal Regulation of Legal Marijuana. Failure to correctly address any of these subtopics could stand to imperil both existing markets for legal marijuana and hamper U.S.

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