Puff Puff Post

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Colleges are becoming a battleground in the conflict between federal and state marijuana laws as students who use medical pot challenge decades-old campus drug policies. In states where medical marijuana is legal , students disciplined for using it are taking their schools to court. HARTFORD, Conn.

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Canna Law Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

With the passage of SB 420 , this collective system was formalized and, with the advent of the 2008 Guidelines issued by the State Attorney General’s Office, more details around “compliance” and best practices were provided; but it was nothing like we have today under Prop. 64 and MAUCRSA. is always a popular promise.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Rates of cannabis use are higher in states where medical or recreational cannabis has been legalised. In Colorado and Washington, where recreational cannabis was legalised in 2012, at least 26% of adults regularly use cannabis. DOT most recently revisited this issue in 2017 and 2018 as a part of a notice of proposed rulemaking.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Now, California county prosecutors can use a program to reduce or even erase about 220,000 cannabis convictions following voters legalizing the drug in 2016. It became the first state to legalize cannabis via the legislature, not through a ballot measure. It aims at clearing about 75,000 marijuana convictions.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

In the bankruptcy arena, the United States Trustee Program (“USTP”) is the gatekeeper that oversees access to bankruptcy and the relief available under the Bankruptcy Code. United States Trustee (In re Arenas) , 535 B.R. However, the USTP has not limited its strict policy to marijuana cultivators and retailers alone.

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MassRoots

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)] language was passed on the House floor in order to restrict the Department of Justice’s ability to enforce federal prohibition against the states that have legalized medical marijuana programs. Crucially, her staff have always been available, willing and ready to advance drug policy reform,” he said.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

to implement the taxed and regulated market approved by voters in 2014, permitting tribes to implement their own cannabis policies, protecting immigrants who work in the industry, and supporting other nations that choose to legalize the plant. This recent shift in government policy and public perception has been a long time coming.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

California’s Attorney General announced that the state’s Campaign Against Marijuana Planting program eradicated 953,459 cannabis plants from 345 raided grow sites across the state over the past year. These agreements have been criticized because local officials often demand more money than allowed under state law.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 1, 2019

Because cannabis remains illegal under federal law, 7 and Section 230 explicitly does not “impair the enforcement of. 9 Even under the Obama-era policy, Weedmaps might still be exposing itself to federal prosecution because it is not “demonstrably in compliance with [California’s] strong and effective. 31 See Lisa N.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 25, 2019

Both paths are complex processes in which scientific, medical, policy and political forces have influence. There are other avenues Congress can take besides rescheduling marijuana to ameliorate the seeming breakdown in federalism brought about by federal marijuana policy. It was not a policy priority of the Obama administration.

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