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Massachusetts Compliance & Training Program For Cannabis Companies (Nation’s First) Deemed A Success

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1 deadline to train managers and employees under a new compliance and safety program that is the first of its kind in the nation. The state’s Responsible Vendor Training Program is designed to support licensee compliance and enhance the safety of customers and employees. Seed-to-sale tracking compliance. Read the full article.

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Budding Woes: Navigating the Weedy Waters of Cannabis Companies in Financial Distress

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What’s the state of play, and what’s the alternative for the losers, their creditors, and the companies that would acquire them? Insolvency relief is available under state law remedies. State law receiverships are often modeled after the bankruptcy code, and contain analogous protections and provisions.

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Massachusetts: cannabis bill sails through committee

Cannabis Law Report

The more wide-ranging bill (H 174/S 72), which a spokesperson said is a priority for House Speaker Ron Mariano, addresses aspects of state laws that cannabis regulators and industry entrepreneurs have been increasingly vocal about taking issue with. The Legislature has long maintained a hands-off approach to marijuana policy.

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Will or Won’t Maine Expand Delivery Services – It’s Causing A DifferenceOf Opinion In The Legislature

Cannabis Law Report

But state law prohibits delivery of cannabis products intended for adult, recreational use. “You guys opted out of standing up a program to license operators,” Bayliss said. Like many other medical marijuana providers in Maine, McMahan is legally allowed to deliver the drug to his clients.

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Looking Back on 25 Years of California Cannabis: Growing Pains (STILL) Persist

Canna Law Blog

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 Legalisation And Its Impact On The US Transport Industry

Cannabis Law Report

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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New Technology Aims to Erase Old Cannabis Charges

Cannabis Law Report

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. However, the laws vary and are complex per state, including on dismissal, sealing and expungement, which up to now have no standard definition across the states.