MassRoots

JANUARY 22, 2019

After four years in the making, medical marijuana is finally legal in the U.S. According to the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act, licenses will be issued for cultivators, testing labs, product manufacturers, and retail dispensaries. Nelson plans to continue to participate in the rollout of his legalization amendment. “I

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

While cannabis legalization moves full steam ahead through much of the Northeast, the southeastern U.S. These states haven’t made major headlines for their progressive cannabis policies, but together they constitute a major market that has, nevertheless, dipped its toe in the water. has been notably slow to uptake major reforms.

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Veriheal

JULY 24, 2020

The cultivation and sale of cannabis are becoming legalized in more and more places across the United States. As of 2020, cannabis is fully legal in eleven states, legal for medical use in 22 states, and legal for medical use with limited THC content in 14 states. Legalization is a big step for Albania.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 9, 2022

Legalizing cannabis for adults has been a wise investment. Since 2014 when sales began in Colorado and Washington, legalization policies have provided states a new revenue stream to bolster budgets and fund important services and programs. billion in tax revenue from legal, adult-use cannabis sales. 46,104,922.

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Veriheal

JANUARY 28, 2021

The November 2020 election was a great win for advocates for cannabis legal reform , with four states voting to legalize recreational cannabis, joining the 11 other states that have decriminalized recreational cannabis use. ” What Federal Law Says. 12114(a); 29 U.S.C. § 12114(a); 29 U.S.C. § Emphasis added by Veriheal. .

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 20, 2022

One might think that the recent uptick in the legalization of recreational marijuana usage would correlate with a decline in the arrests and seizures related to the leafy-green. In 2020 alone, legal sales of marijuana in the US bought in a record $17.5 Nevertheless, the federal law and enforcement policy remained the same.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 18, 2022

One might think that the recent uptick in the legalization of recreational marijuana usage would correlate with a decline in the arrests and seizures related to the leafy-green. In 2020 alone, legal sales of marijuana in the US bought in a record $17.5 Nevertheless, the federal law and enforcement policy remained the same.

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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 Medical Marijuana Already Legal.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Tax officials in Missouri are doubting the legality of CBD-containing products being sold in stores, especially since such products are still largely unregulated. He noted how there were differing opinions from several agencies, which prompted him to approach the Attorney General’s office for legal assistance on the said matter.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 18, 2019

Alaska voters legalized recreational marijuana use in 2014, but it took about 18 months for the first cultivators to be licensed and open their doors. When they did, they began paying into the cultivation tax that Alaska assesses on commercially grown marijuana. million in taxes. million in 2018, up from about $57.5

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Veriheal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

An okra farmer was raided in the middle of the night in Georgia in 2014. In order for hemp to be legal in America, it must maintain a THC level no higher than 0.3%. If THC levels go higher than this, the crop is considered “hot” and is often destroyed to avoid legal ramifications. federal legalization of hemp.

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SpeedWeed

JULY 6, 2021

South Dakota’s Native American Tribes not only legally opened a medical cannabis dispensary without consulting the state, but this past week, advocates also filed four different recreational legalization initiatives for consideration on the ballot later this year. View original article.

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 1, 2021

Washington DC lawmakers have two recreational marijuana legalization bills to consider after Mayor Muriel Bowser and City Council Chair Phil Mendelson introduced separate measures. Bowser’s bill defines three classes of cultivation licenses that cap plant counts at 2,000, 6000, and 10,000. We are looking forward to the D.C.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 2, 2022

Legalization of cannabis for medicinal and recreational use is an expanding global trend in the U.S. Both the legal and illegal markets are linked to environmental challenges such as freshwater use, land-use change, toxic and nutrient pollution, and climate change-contributing CO2 emissions. SOURCE : [link]. A growing trend.

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Canna Law Blog

APRIL 25, 2019

Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) released a statement, in which the agency clarified that the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill rendered the importation of hemp seeds legal. As we previously explained , the 2018 Farm Bill legalized hemp, hemp seeds, and other derivatives by removing them from the Controlled Substance Act.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Voters approved the legalization of personal cannabis possession, cultivation and gifting at the ballot in 2014, but there’s been no licensed retailers for non-patients. It effectively enables the District to circumvent a congressional rider barring D.C.

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Veriheal

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despite Louisiana’s slow warm-up to cannabis, the state is making significant progress when it comes to cannabis legal reform. The law used very specific language that allowed certain aspects of a medical cannabis program, such as prescriptions from doctors, but failed to address other factors such as cultivation and distribution.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 20, 2021

Legal Affairs Division – Tamara Colson. Chief among our goals is to simplify participation in the legal market by streamlining licensing and the regulatory framework. Lee served as Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary for the Office of Governor Gavin Newsom from 2019 to 2021. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit from 2013 to 2014.

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The Cannigma

MAY 9, 2021

Indoor cultivation’s carbon footprint is so energy intensive that it is indefensible from an energy and environment perspective, argued the authors of the report. Many cultivators prefer indoor cultivation because it makes possible five or more grow cycles per year, compared to only one or two outdoors. But there’s a price.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

NCUA’s Rodney Hood said at the PBC Conference that he’s “concerned that the legal and regulatory infrastructure surrounding the cannabis industry is not evolving quickly enough,” and congressional inaction is largely to blame. He also said that he feels legalization at the federal level is an inevitability. Read full article.

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We often write of the pernicious effects of the War on Drugs in the criminal law context as well as its harmful impacts on the hemp and (state) legal marijuana industries. In 2014, the petitioner and her husband opened a licensed marijuana dispensary. The State of Washington began its path to marijuana legalization in 2012.

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MMJ Recs

AUGUST 30, 2021

In 2014, Governor Jay Nixon signed the Missouri Medical Marijuana Bill, making it possible for CBD to be used as medicine for seizures. In 2018, Amendment 2 was passed, making medical marijuana in the state completely legal. After all, once something becomes legalized, it can be taxed for government revenue.

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Veriheal

JANUARY 3, 2023

Medical cannabis has been legal in the state since 2014. In March 2021, the state also further reformed cannabis laws by legalizing the retail use of cannabis. However, since legalizing the possession and consumption of cannabis for adults, the state has yet to implement operational dispensaries to serve adults in the state.

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

My article was written prior to the passage of the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (“2018 Farm Bill”), which expanded federal law to cover a wider range of commercial hemp activity and gave the US Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) regulatory authority over the cultivation of hemp.

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 1, 2020

The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 ( 2018 Farm Bill ) legalized hemp by removing the crop and its derivatives from the definition of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and by providing a detailed framework for the cultivation of hemp. Consumption” means “to ingest, inhale, topically apply to the skin or hair.”

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Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (“ 2018 Farm Bill ”) legalized hemp by removing the crop and its derivatives from the definition of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) and by providing a detailed framework for the cultivation of hemp. Hemp cultivation is not legal, even after the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 31, 2019

respondents said marijuana use should be legal, compared to 31 percent who supported legalization in the year 2000. [1] have legalized medical marijuana use, and 11 states have legalized recreational marijuana use. [2]. Background on Marijuana Legalization. Published On JD Supra: [link].

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Canna Law Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Our firm represents a number of financial institutions and even a federal agency on banking state-legal cannabis. We have practiced in the space ever since the 2014 FinCEN guidelines were issued and it’s been slow going for the most part. This is because the legal status of hemp-CBD federally is currently precarious at best.

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Veriheal

MAY 4, 2023

In 2021, Luxembourg and Malta legalized home cannabis cultivation for personal use. The following year, the Czech Republic and German governments announced plans to develop a legal framework to establish a regulated market for recreational sales. or Canada, where the world’s first legal market rolled out four years ago.

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Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2020

In this post, I’ll walk through exactly how we got into the current mess we are in and why transporting hemp can be such a massive risk—even though hemp is technically federally legal (or at least no longer a controlled substance). In fact, people still continued to get stopped and arrested for the simple act of driving with hemp.

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Canna Law Blog

JUNE 16, 2019

The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (“ 2018 Farm Bill ”) legalized hemp by removing the crop and its derivatives from the definition of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) and by providing a detailed framework for the cultivation of hemp. 2014 Farm Bill Industrial Hemp Program. Emphasis added).

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The analysis explores barriers to access, civil protections, affordability, health and social equity, and product safety, as well as penalties for detrimental policies. million legal medical cannabis patients across the country and territories, and at least 13 states that have over 100,000 registered patients. There are now over 5.1

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Canna Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

My law firm has done a series of these for credit unions (“CU”s) and other financial institutions (“FIs”) going back to 2014. MRB defined The term “MRB” is used pervasively in cannabis banking, yet this term is not defined in the moldering 2014 Financial Crimes Enforcement Network “FinCEN” Guidance. That’s banking.

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Canna Law Blog

JULY 5, 2020

The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 ( 2018 Farm Bill ) legalized hemp by removing the crop and its derivatives from the definition of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and by providing a detailed framework for the cultivation of hemp. Links to each of these posts are available below.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 14, 2019

Sending hemp and CBD in the mail has proven to be more of a hassle than one would expect given the recent expansion of hemp’s legal status in the United States. We wrote about this topic recently , and quoted both a USPS policy statement and an administrative court ruling that hemp and hemp extracts are mailable commodities.

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Over eight years ago, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network published the FinCen Memorandum of February 14, 2014 (“FinCen Memo”). The closest we have to a federal framework is from this 2018 SBA Policy Notice , which categorizes MRBs as “direct”, “indirect”, and “hemp-related businesses.” Legal cannabis sales in the U.S.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Leading the rankings again is California (#1), the first state to legalize medical marijuana in 1996. Since then, the state has legalized adult-use marijuana, and created a uniform licensing regime for both medical and recreational marijuana use across the state. Adults may possess two ounces of marijuana and grow up to six plants.

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