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The SAFE Banking Act Reintroduced

NORML

A bipartisan coalition of more than 100 co-sponsors has reintroduced legislation in Congress, The Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act (SAFE Banking Act), HR 1595 , to allow state-licensed marijuana-related businesses to engage freely in relationships with banks and other financial institutions. This situation is untenable.

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In Congress, a Changed House Finally Looks at Cannabis Banking

SpeedWeed

Six years after introducing the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, a cannabis banking reform measure, co-author Denny Heck finally saw it enjoy its first committee hearing in Congress on Wednesday. Here’s How Cannabis Companies Are Banking Legally on the Down Low. “We are all late,” Rep.

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National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Critcizes Congress On Their Tardiness On Reforming Cannabis Laws.”The bottom line is this: Legalization in some form is going to happen, and the abdication of responsibility to address these issues in Washington is simply ludicrous.”

Cannabis Law Report

Top Federal Financial Regulator Slams Congress Over Marijuana Inaction And Calls For Interagency Banking Workgroup. Hood Remarks at the PBC Conference 2021: Payments, Banking, Compliance in the Cannabis Industry. He also said that he feels legalization at the federal level is an inevitability. Here’s his full presentation.

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

Cannabis Law Report

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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Top Five Drags on the Cannabis Industry

Canna Law Blog

Volatile Access to Banking. Lack of access to banking in the industry is the current norm, and it ultimately helps keep cannabis in the shadows and out of reach of full legitimacy and transparency. Fraudsters also help to keep cannabis in the wild, wild west.

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Nixon Peabody on Mondaq: United States: Ethical Issues For Attorneys Providing Services To The Cannabis Industry

Cannabis Law Report

As Congress is considering legislation to provide banks with a safe harbor for providing services to those in the cannabis industry, other areas, from financial services to soft drink manufacturers, are actively assessing how the explosion of this new market will impact their products and services. Policy on permissible activity.

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Beyond Blue Dream: A Haze strain family genealogy

SpeedWeed

As legend foretells, these Haze Brothers selections got into the hands of two fabled breeders, Dave Watson (better known as Sam the Skunkman) and Nevil Schoenmakers , who established Holland’s The Seed Bank thanks to a loophole in Dutch drug law. 1984: Nevil reportedly starts The Seed Bank with a High Times ad. Got a favorite Haze?

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