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Tax Court’s decision in Harborside A Big Challenge For CA Cannabis Dispensaries

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Tax Court has issued a final decision under Tax Court Rule 155 on the income tax deficiency for Patients Mutual Assistance Collective Corporation (“PMACC”), the Company’s 100% owned subsidiary and owner of the iconic Harborside Oakland cannabis dispensary. million for the fiscal years 2007 through 2012.

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DLG Learning Center: Half In, Half Out – Standing Akimbo, LLC v. United States, 594 U.S. (2021)

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The petitioners in this case lawfully operate a medium medical-marijuana dispensary in Colorado. On June 28, 2021, Justice Thomas stated that although federal law still flatly forbids the intrastate possession, cultivation, or distribution of marijuana, the Government, post-Raich, has sent mixed signals on its views.

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Arizona Supreme Court Decision On Extracts: First Dissenter Yavapai County Attorney Shelia Polk

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Sadly, the Supreme Court rejected the Arizona Appeals Court’s common-sense reasoning and its sound conclusion that hashish is a form of cannabis, which state law defines as distinct from the dried marijuana leaves. Indeed, it’s a difference that dispensaries promote. These are medicines? BACKGROUND ON THE CASE.

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New Study Says. Not One California Dispensary Caught Selling to Minors

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The perpetual myth that dispensaries are selling weed to minors refuses to die, but evidence shows this isn’t the case in California. Instead, adult-use dispensaries in the state are proving the system works by checking IDs as required by state law. MRR writes. Introduction. 2012, Calabria et al.,

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

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a “closed loop system”) for enterprising patients and caregivers to essentially commercialize medical cannabis through large scale grows and dispensaries (with no government oversight or regulation). The state has done a terrible job of going after “bad actor” licensees for basic and fundamental regulatory violations.

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Article: Willie Nelson Takes On Corporate Cannabis

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The following year, Colorado and Washington became the first two states to permit recreational use: It is now perfectly legal in both places to shamble into a dispensary, plunk down a stack of crinkly bills, and purchase a bag of high-grade weed for no loftier purpose than to get high.

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World Wide Weed: Risks and Best Practices for Advertising State Legal Cannabis on the Internet

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Users can search for and review cannabis dispensaries, brands, strains, delivery services, and a host of other cannabis or cannabis-related products and services in states in which cannabis has been legalized for medical or recreational use. Follow State Law (and Require that Customers Do Too). ” 25.