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State restrictions on cannabis packaging worry producers

Cannabis Chronicles

Since starting Fairwinds, a Vancouver-based cannabis company, in 2014, James and Wendy Hull said they’ve heard from customers who’ve praised their products for helping them with pain, anxiety and other ailments — even cancer. Hull has never had a customer say the packaging on her company’s products are misleading, she said.

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New Opinion Confirms Growing Trend Away from “Zero Tolerance” Cannabis Bankruptcy Relief Policy

Canna Law Blog

The seminal Arenas decision from 2014 observed that things get especially awkward when “granting [relief to the debtor] directly involves a federal court … administering the fruits and instrumentalities of federal criminal activity.” brand, also known as “Lowell Farms.” It stopped operating in February 2021.

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States Have Made Over $15B From Cannabis Tax Revenue Despite Decline

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A report was released by the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) on May 1 on the combined sale of cannabis across the U.S. Since the state-legal, adult-use cannabis market began in 2014, a combined total of more than $15 billion has been generated in tax revenue. There was a significant boost in the purchase of consumer packaged goods.

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Stream Flows May be Impacted by CA Farms Using Groundwater Irrigation

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A brand new study fresh out of the Cannabis Research Center at UC Berkeley draws serious attention to the burden that cannabis cultivation imposes on water policy. Since its enactment in 2014, the SGMA has been working to protect groundwater resources over an extended period of time.

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Perkins Coie: Prop 65 Plaintiffs Set Their Sights on Cannabis Industry

Cannabis Law Report

As the cannabis industry and its associated sectors have gained increasing social and legal acceptance, these businesses have started to face an issue that has been plaguing traditional Consumer Packaged Goods companies in the state of California for decades— Proposition 65 claims. Jasmine Wetherell. Source: [link].

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Prop 65 Plaintiffs Set Their Sights on Cannabis Industry

Cannabis Law Report

As the cannabis industry and its associated sectors have gained increasing social and legal acceptance, these businesses have started to face an issue that has been plaguing traditional Consumer Packaged Goods companies in the state of California for decades— Proposition 65 claims. Posted in: Cannabis , Featured Posts.

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Kight On Cannabis: USPS Publishes New Guidelines For Mailing Hemp & Hemp Products

Cannabis Law Report

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. On June 6, an update from the United States Postal Service (USPS) arrived with new and more straightforward guidelines for mailing hemp and CBD in the United States.

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