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Philippines: Cannabis bills likely to be indefinitely postponed

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Since 2014, lawmakers from the Philippines have been trying to get legislation on medical cannabis passed in Congress and have re-introduced it in the current 18th Congress, with little success so far. In 2017, newspapers quoted Duterte’s spokesman that the former was open to approving bills legalising medical cannabis. I will not allow it.

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Are CBD-Infused Alcohol Beverages Legal?

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Alcohol and Tobacco and Trade Bureau (“TTB”) as well as by state liquor control agencies in states where the production and sale of hemp-infused drinks is allowed. As such, the FDA has refused to recognize hemp-CBD as a safe food additive, which means it would treat hemp-CBD infused alcoholic beverages as unlawful under the FD&CA.

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The Latin American Cannabis Landscape – Part Two: Regulated Markets and Patient Access

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Thanks to the recent emergence of regulated medical cannabis markets, the success of this versatile plant can be followed from farm to pharma and prescriber to patient, however, the origins of cannabis as medicine cannot be as simply traced as the plant is today from seed to sale. million people.

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Hemp CBD Across State Lines: What You Need to Know

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A smaller but growing number of states also regulate the sale of products derived from hemp. Both the 2014 Farm Bill and 2018 Farm Bill focused on the actual growing of hemp, not processing or handling hemp. The 2018 Farm Bill gives the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulatory authority over hemp cultivation at the federal level.

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The Status of Cannabis Legalization in the South

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Although there is no excise tax on medical cannabis, there is a medical cannabis special privilege tax of 4% of the gross receipts or gross proceeds derived from the sale of usable cannabis to be collected by cultivation facilities, dispensaries, or other cannabis businesses and remitted to the Department of Finance and Administration.

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South Australia: Is Adelaide About To See A Medical Cannabis Boom?

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Both US states legalised recreational cannabis in 2014, and had seen spectacular economic results. The long-promised, glittering ambitions of a large-scale medicinal cannabis industry in South Australia are about to be tested, with plans to create more than 1000 jobs at a major new manufacturing facility in Adelaide.

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Battle of the Weedwork Stars, Episode 1

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MMJ sales via dispensaries are expected to total $200 million-$300 million in 2018, according to projections in the Marijuana Business Factbook 2018, up considerably from an estimated $20 million-$40 million in 2017. This summer brought daily cannabis-related news and the hits just keep on coming. 1, 2017, to 159,107 as of Dec.