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Americans for Safe Access (ASA) has released a report examining the efficacy of state medical cannabis laws.

Cannabis Law Report

The organization has, they say, ……evaluated patient access, affordability, equity, and product safety. With a decline in legislative improvements in state medical cannabis programs, millions of patients are left with limited or no access,” ASA Executive Director Debbie Churgai said. “It

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We Smoke Weed We Shoot Guns….

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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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Minnesota’s New Recreational Cannabis Law Results in First-Of-Its-Kind Drug Testing Scheme

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Since 2014, Minnesota has provided applicants and employees with protections if they lawfully use cannabis for medicinal purposes. This expanded definition should avoid litigation in Minnesota over whether the CPA covers a product that is legal under state law, but not federal law, as we saw in Coats v.

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Sneha Ajai – Noffsinger v. SSC Niantic Operating Company LLC

Cannabis Law Report

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.

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Andrew Easto – Barbuto v. Advantage Sales and Marketing

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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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Cannabis Legalisation And Its Impact On The US Transport Industry

Cannabis Law Report

While employers in the US transport industry are acutely aware of the effects COVID-19 has imposed over the last 18 months, another phenomenon has been making itself known: the ever-increasing tally of states and localities across the country legalising cannabis for medicinal and recreational purposes.

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An Officer Forced into Retirement for Medical Cannabis Sues NYPD

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While working as part of the school safety task force in 2010, Robert received a sprained shoulder and two fractured shin bones from wrestling a student that had assaulted a member of the staff. Move forward two years to 2014, and Robert began taking prescription medication for anxiety. New York legalized medical cannabis in 2014.