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Linked In Article: Lawyers and offices in Brazil embrace marijuana

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Before 2013, legal professionals’ contact with cannabis issues was basically limited to criminal proceedings relating to the possession or sale of the substance. starting treatment with so-called medicinal cannabis. Read more at.

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Mondaq Article-Australia: Cannabis possession will soon be legal in Canberra: An interview with Cannabis Clubs Mark Hutchison

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Mondaq Article: [link]. 0 Liked this Article. And residents will be allowed to cultivate up to two plants. This made Canada the second nation to legalise it nationally, following Uruguay having passed such laws in December 2013. CONTRIBUTOR. Most Read: Contributor Australia, December 2019. 24 January 2020.

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Article: Uruguayan Legalization, Nothing To See Here, The Sky Didn’t Fall In, “Gangs of Zombies” Nowhere To Be Seen!

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Milton Romani, the ex-secretary general of the National Drug Board, the government agency tasked with implementing Uruguay’s drug policies, said several myths hovered over the law regulating cannabis sales, which then-President Jose Mujica signed in December 2013 as an anti-drug trafficking measure.

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Is weed legal in North Korea?

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In 2013, an anonymous blogger wrote of his experiences visiting Rason, a Special Economic Zone in North Korea’s northeast, near the border with China and Russia. In the same year, NK News published an article (since removed) describing North Korea as “a weed-smoker’s paradise.” The article was later republished by Vice.

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Article: Frost Brown Todd – Now is the Time to Plan IP Strategies for Industrial Hemp

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This article provides guidance on IP protections and patent application process as it relates to industrial hemp. To date, at least 41 states have passed legislation related to industrial hemp, defining hemp and removing barriers to its use, and at least 39 states have allowed for hemp cultivation and production programs.

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Article – Thompson Coburn LLP: What’s new for medical cannabis facilities after the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act

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Additionally, the CRTA addresses the following topics relevant to facilities currently operating under Illinois’ 2013 Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act (the “MCPPA”): Early approval and secondary site applications for medical dispensaries; Early approval applications for medical cultivation centers; and.

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Article: Willie Nelson Takes On Corporate Cannabis

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Or maybe the rise of corporate marijuana is better illustrated by the tech millionaire Jamen Shively, who announced plans in 2013 to create a chain of pot shops modeled on Starbucks that would “mint more millionaires than Microsoft” — acknowledging at one point, “We are Big Marijuana.”.