Veriheal

OCTOBER 27, 2020

However, in a first of its kind lawsuit filed against the city of New York, a former NYPD officer says he was harassed and discriminated against by the NYPD over his use of medically recommended cannabis made by an NYPD medical division doctor by the name of Dr. Joseph Hederman. Robert started his career with the NYPD back in 2008.

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SpeedWeed

JULY 20, 2021

Maryland state lawmakers announced last week that the legislature will turn to the voters on the issue of cannabis policy reform by placing a marijuana legalization measure on the statewide ballot next year. Maryland Work Group To Study Cannabis Legalization. Maryland House of Delegates Speaker Adrienne A.

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 19, 2019

To understand the current state of hemp cultivation in California, we need to look back a few years. The CIHFA amended the Health and Safety Code to redefine “marijuana” to exclude industrial hemp, and to statutorily define industrial hemp. The next year, the federal Agricultural Act of 2014 (or “2014 Farm Bill”) was passed.

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Veriheal

JANUARY 5, 2022

President Joe Biden is receiving a lot of attention for his inaction regarding the federal laws on cannabis despite filling cannabis activists with hope for its future during his campaign. Joyce, of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus wrote a blunt letter to Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 26, 2019

The public safety concerns resulting from the dearth of cannabis banking has led dozens of state Attorneys General, the American Banking Association, and numerous other voices to urge the passage of legislation like the SAFE Banking Act so that the U.S. ” Reluctant Banking and Public Safety Concerns. businesses.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 13, 2019

In total, 15 states currently have medical cannabis laws that provide some form of explicit employment protection for medical cannabis users. Recreational and Medical Marijuana Laws Increase Employer Obligations. Similar to the U.S. Source: [link].

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 25, 2022

Further, does the permissive Connecticut state law conflict with the federal law which makes it a federal crime to use, possess, or distribute marijuana, when it prohibits employers from discriminating against authorized persons who use medicinal marijuana outside of the workplace. 21a–408 et seq., Conclusion. Sneha Ajai.

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The recent wave of crackdowns on cannabidiol (“CBD”)-infused alcohol beverages has further exacerbated public confusion regarding the legal status of the cannabis plant’s non-psychoactive compound. As we previously explained , alcoholic beverages are regulated by federal and state laws.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 31, 2019

3] The CSA established five schedules of controlled substances, with Schedule I substances defined as those which have a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in the United States, and a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision. [4]

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Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Due to the federal illegality of cannabis, cannabis businesses don’t receive normal treatment from the federal government (with maybe one or two exceptions, like the NLRB and the 2014 FinCEN guidance for access to financial institutions). Not so for your average cannabis farmer or distributor.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 25, 2022

Barbuto was hired by the defendant, Advantage Sales and Marketing (ASM) in 2014. Barbuto informed her to-be supervisor at ASM that she was a qualifying medical marijuana patient under Massachusetts law, adding that she did not take the medical marijuana before work or at work. 10] In that case, there would be undue hardship.

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The Joint Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Under current law consuming marijuana at marijuana, stores are illegal. Voters would have to change Anchorage’s workplace safety code banning indoor smoking, but the state code allows for on-site marijuana smoking, Economic and Community Development Director Christopher Schutte told the Associated Press.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Even though 47 states have legalized cannabis for some forms of medical use , New York significantly falls behind its neighbors in terms of marijuana legislation. This guide will uncover key facts about recreational and medical marijuana use and the history of its laws in the state of New York. . for decades.

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CannaMD

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

MORE DETAILS: On June 16, 2014, Florida became the 22nd state to legalize (at least partial) access to medical marijuana when Governor Rick Scott signed the Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act of 2014. How does Florida law define medical marijuana? What is the legal difference between cannabis and low-THC cannabis?

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 1, 2019

PUBLISHER: CANNABIS LAW REPORT. The website Weedmaps bills itself as “a community where businesses and consumers can search and discover cannabis products, become educated on all things cannabis, review cannabis businesses and connect with other like-minded users,” but is more succinctly described as Yelp for pot.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

As New Jersey nears the end of its first month of legal recreational marijuana sales, lawmakers have introduced a series of bills aimed at restricting what types of workers can use cannabis off the job. That would include any workers who operate tractors, dump trucks, excavators, and bulldozers, plus law enforcement officers.

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Canna Law Blog

MAY 19, 2019

In addition to legalizing adult use and possession of cannabis, the law creates a statewide regulatory regime for commercial cannabis activity, but also provides discretion to local jurisdictions to prohibit or restrict such businesses.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Delta-8 THC is making big waves in the cannabis industry at the minute, but with warnings from the FDA and CDC , not to mention harrowing accounts from users , it’s clear there’s more going on with the novel cannabinoid than meets the eye. Testing for Safety: Are Impurities a Problem? Testing for Safety: Are Impurities a Problem?

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 28, 2019

PUBLISHER: CANNABIS LAW REPORT. Thirty-three states and the District of Columbia have enacted medical marijuana programs. 92% of veterans support research into medical cannabis and 83% of all veteran households support legalizing medical cannabis. United States v. AUTHOR: Patrick McKnight. May 2, 2019.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 26, 2022

Instead, adult-use dispensaries in the state are proving the system works by checking IDs as required by state law. A new study disproves the theory that dispensaries make it easier for teens to get cannabis. In California, people 18-20 with a doctor’s recommendation and any adult 21 and over can purchase cannabis.

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Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Due to coronavirus, what normally would have been a pretty robust legislative session in the California Assembly for new cannabis bills was generally underwhelming. The set-up is markedly different than the 2020 session, where there were over 30 cannabis-related bills. This Assembly Bill addresses cannabis banking on the state level.

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Those of you beginning to pick up regulated cannabis clients might find this article a useful and interesting read. As of October 21, 33 states and the District of Columbia have allowed the use of medical marijuana. In addition, recreational marijuana is legalized in 10 states and the District of Columbia (see Exhibit 1 for details).

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 22, 2019

PUBLISHER: CANNABIS LAW REPORT. Over two years ago, Nora Mounce of Hello MD penned Beyond Organic: How to Shop for Sustainable Cannabis : Cannabis can’t be certified organic, but there are third-party labels to help you pick marijuana grown safely and sustainably. Cannabis Can’t Be Officially Called Organic.

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Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 13, 2019

We’ve written many times about how commercial leases to cannabis tenants are their own beasts. And, in California, as bad as some landlords want to rely solely on AIR and CAR forms, we generally caution landlords to have a customized lease arrangement when dealing with a cannabis tenant. And in the City of L.A.

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Just a few weeks ago my colleague, Hilary Bricken, authored a post, Will AI Replace Your Cannabis Lawyer? (I with ChatGPT about being a cannabis lawyer, the ethical rules, and to draft a cannabis contract (ChatGPT declined to do so). Oregon was one of the first states to legalize marijuana for adult use in 2014.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 25, 2019

CPA’s” PUBLISHER: CANNABIS LAW REPORT. Numerous attempts to introduce legislation to relax the provisions that placed cannabis on Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act [“CSA”] have been made beginning in 1981 [i]. State-compliant cannabis activity would no longer violate federal criminal law.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 17, 2019

As more countries legalize or decriminalize the cultivation, manufacture, sale, and use of cannabis, companies across a variety of industries are looking for opportunities to capitalize on this emerging market. This white paper offers a primer to the complex and confusing global cannabis industry as it stands today.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 14, 2021

The Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act and comes in at a hefty 163PP. This is big: Today @SenBooker @SenSchumer and I are releasing our draft legislation to end the federal prohibition of cannabis. Senate Leadership Releases Draft Legislation to Make Cannabis Federally Legal. First here’s the story.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 17, 2021

In a parallel universe we’d all think that it’s somewhat odd that medical cannabis patients would have an ardent desire to be tooled up with weaponry. An unlikely alliance of far-right conservatives and legal marijuana advocates is pushing to allow medical cannabis patients to own guns. .” The Star Tribune reports.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 31, 2019

There has been a dramatic shift in Americans’ view of cannabis throughout the last decade. Americans’ access to cannabis has also grown as states pass various laws allowing medical and adult use of the plant. As of today, a majority of states and U.S. territories allow for some form of legal cannabis.

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Cannabis Chronicles

JULY 2, 2019

The Clark County Council voted 3-2 to lift its ban on recreational cannabis businesses in unincorporated areas of the county at its Tuesday evening meeting. They also heard from critics of the ban who said that prohibition has failed and the legal cannabis industry provides jobs and opportunity. Bans give way to buffers.

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 20, 2021

State-legal cannabis companies aren’t stashing large stacks of cash behind walls or rubber-banded bankrolls in hidden vaults. billion of legal cannabis sales in the U.S. billion of legal cannabis sales in the U.S. The cannabis industry is just not big enough business to us. Shannon Price | Adobe Stock.

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 18, 2021

State-legal cannabis companies aren’t stashing large stacks of cash behind walls or rubber-banded bankrolls in hidden vaults. billion of legal cannabis sales in the U.S. billion of legal cannabis sales in the U.S. The cannabis industry is just not big enough business to us. Shannon Price | Adobe Stock.

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 21, 2021

State-legal cannabis companies aren’t stashing large stacks of cash behind walls or rubber-banded bankrolls in hidden vaults. billion of legal cannabis sales in the U.S. billion of legal cannabis sales in the U.S. The cannabis industry is just not big enough business to us. Shannon Price | Adobe Stock.

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 19, 2021

State-legal cannabis companies aren’t stashing large stacks of cash behind walls or rubber-banded bankrolls in hidden vaults. billion of legal cannabis sales in the U.S. billion of legal cannabis sales in the U.S. The cannabis industry is just not big enough business to us. Shannon Price | Adobe Stock.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts) has unveiled her plan to legalize cannabis if she is elected president — the plan includes expungement of past convictions, research funding, medical cannabis access for veterans, and more. A JUST AND EQUITABLE CANNABIS INDUSTRY. THE OUTLINE. Here’s how we’ll do it.

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