Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 16, 2019

Vandeventer Black said in a June 4 news release it had formed a new hemp and medical marijuana law practice. As the laws around cannabis struggle to keep up with the industry, attorneys at the firm say they know companies are going to be caught in the crossfire. Medical marijuana is an even trickier tangle of federal and state laws.

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The Blunt Truth

JULY 25, 2023

STATE OF PLAY The United States Trustee Program (“USTP”), as the bankruptcy system watchdog, has long taken the position that the system may not be used as in instrument in committing a crime, and that trustees and estate fiduciaries may not administer assets in violation of federal criminal law. [1] 3] In re Arenas , 535 B.R.

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The Blunt Truth

MAY 6, 2021

Attorney General Garland reiterates his disinterest in prosecuting marijuana users abiding by state law. This bill requires the federal government to study the effects of legal cannabis on state economies, public health, criminal justice, and employment. The case began in 2015 in the U.S. cannabis research bills.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 25, 2021

The announcement is a long-awaited milestone for about 15,000 patients who have been authorized to use medical marijuana oil since 2015 but weren’t permitted to buy it. State law limits the number of medical marijuana producers to six. It’s a blessing. Each licensee will be authorized to open five dispensaries.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a case by a marijuana business arguing that state laws allowing pot sales should not be overridden by a federal law prohibiting business tax deductions for the sale of illegal substances. @ law 360 [link].

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 3, 2020

PUBLISHER: CANNABIS LAW REPORT. Now, he is the Vice-Chair of Indiana NORML — an organization who is currently focused on changing cannabis laws for the access to Medical Cannabis as therapeutic treatment in Indiana. If you wish to re-publish this story please do so with following accreditation. AUTHOR: Heather Allman.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 7, 2022

Specifically, the Sixth District found that, while the County is not compelled to return seized property if the property is illegal, the local ordinance at issue “ultimately regulates land use within the County; it does not (nor could it) render illegal a substance that is legal under state law.”. Blog: Cannabis Law Blog.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 31, 2019

Network of Trial Law Firms – July 29, 2019. Over the last several years, attitudes towards marijuana use have rapidly changed in the United States. 1] As of the date of this article, thirty-three states and Washington D.C. have legalized medical marijuana use, and 11 states have legalized recreational marijuana use. [2].

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

Senate introduced legislation Monday to remove hemp from the state controlled substances list, which would make hemp legal in North Carolina after a pilot program ends July 1. senators recognized a technical change to the state’s law was required to mirror the federal regulations and introduced Senate Bill 762 to address this.

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Veriheal

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Though Georgia is one of the last states to officially legalize medical cannabis, the state has been gradually reforming its laws around low-THC cannabis oil for qualifying patients. In 2015, Georgia passed HB 1, also known as the Haleigh’s Hope Act, allowing medical cannabis oil for medical use.

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Cannabis Chronicles

MAY 1, 2019

Last month, the council held a work session looking at the law enforcement and public health aspects of legal cannabis. Under state law , cannabis businesses are prohibited from setting up within 1,000 feet of schools, playgrounds, child care centers, parks, recreation facilities, transit centers, libraries and arcades.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

New Mexico first approved the drug’s medical use in 2007, while Picuris Pueblo decriminalized medical pot for members in 2015. A new state law in June broadly legalized marijuana for adults and authorized up to a dozen home-grown plants per household for personal use — with no weight limit. “I

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 29, 2019

She was the lead staffer and drafter of the MCRSA at the California State Legislature in 2015. . As most people know, state law provides very generous authority to local jurisdictions regarding operational requirements and standards. But now that the regulations are finalized, what’s left for the CAC to do?

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 6, 2022

But because of a public-policy provision in the Tax Code, companies that deal in controlled substances prohibited by federal law are treated differently. Additionally, every fiscal year since 2015, Congress has prohibited the Department of Justice from spending funds to prevent states’ implementation of their own medical marijuana laws.

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The Joint Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

Arrests for marijuana-related crimes plummeted by a range of 63% and roughly 80% from 2015 to 2018 in the five largest suburbs: These include Aurora, Naperville, Elgin, Joliet and Waukegan. The state had deemed most of these communities as neighborhoods with high numbers of such arrests, the Aurora Beacon-News reported. .

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Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

The First Circuit has added itself to the list of jurisdictions that have invalidated similar state cannabis laws on DCC grounds, including in the Sixth and Eighth circuits. Without getting in the weeds here, in general the DCC prohibits states from enacting laws that place substantial burdens (discriminate) on interstate commerce.

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

President Biden pardoned 6,500 people previously convicted of “simple possession” of marijuana under federal law. Everyone serving time for simple possession of cannabis is in state prison for violations of state (and not federal) controlled substances laws. Fundamentally, however, things are no different than in 2015.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 21, 2019

The two former officers of Vireo, which has New York dispensaries in White Plains and Johnson City, are accused of using the company’s armored vehicle to illegally transport medical cannabis oil from Minnesota to New York in December 2015.

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The Blunt Truth

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

State law allows employees to use CBD oil, while other laws allow employers to fire workers for using it. After the Agricultural Act and Farm Bill in 2014 drew some attention to hemp, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2015 removed hemp from the controlled substance schedule so long as there was no more than.3%

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Canna Care Docs

JUNE 21, 2022

Since 2015, Texans with certain medical conditions have had access to medical marijuana through the state’s Compassionate Use Program. The Texas medical cannabis program, called CUP , is a little different from most states’ programs in that it limits THC content. Struggling with painful or uncomfortable symptoms?

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 19, 2020

The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin reports. The road to Illinois becoming the 11th state in the country along with the District of Columbia to legalize adult-use recreational cannabis was a long and winding one. In the 2015 Colorado case, Coats v. Front and center for the panel was the important topic of employee drug-testing.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 20, 2019

The Garden State’s Governor, Phil Murphy, signed the Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act (CUMMA) on July 2, 2019. Greenspoon Marder is a national full-service business law firm with 240 attorneys and 26 locations across the United States. since 2015. ABOUT GREENSPOON MARDER.

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

AJC reports… Georgia’s top elected leaders moved forward Tuesday with a program to provide medical marijuana to the state’s 15,000 registered patients, nearly seven months after Gov. Brian Kemp signed it into law. The commission’s members weren’t named until state officials vetted more than 50 candidates.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Alabama legalized medical a medical cannabis program on May 17, 2021 when Governor Ivey signed SB 46 into law. The law provides for up to 12 cultivator licenses, up to four processor licenses, up to four dispensary licenses, and up to five integrated facility licenses.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

PUBLISHER: CANNABIS LAW REPORT. . The Tax Court enforces federal tax laws. The Tax Court enforces federal tax laws. P is a California corporation that operates a medical marijuana dispensary legally under California law. 3) does not apply to marijuana businesses legally operated under State law. .

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Kind Meds (Cannabis Education Blog)

MARCH 9, 2022

However, even though it is legal in your state, you should know about your state’s laws for driving while high, what it means for levels of intoxication, and amounts that you can own without a dispensary license. Since weed is still illegal federally, all states have different levels for use while driving. 4] Naeem Z.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 7, 2020

A bit of history: 280E was created in 1982 following a court case in which a convicted cocaine trafficker asserted his right under federal tax law to deduct ordinary business expenses. 280E still penalizes cannabis businesses, even when they are regulated and comply with state law. MJBizDaily data found 6.3

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Canna Law Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Like all things cannabis, the lawyer ethics part can be a morass— especially when you start looking at international law and the rules of various jurisdictions all around the world. law, and I’ll do a quick run-through of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (RPC) to help spot issues. regime previously on this blog.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 24, 2022

was improper given the prohibition against spending federal funds to prosecute criminal defendants for marijuana-related offenses contained in the Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment (now known as the Joyce-Blumenauer Amendment), a congressional appropriations rider, which has been in place since 2015. 801 et seq.,

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Compliance with state laws is of little benefit when it comes to federal bankruptcy, banking, and tax codes. Usually this exclusion falls under §1129(a)(3) which bars any plan “forbidden by law.” BAP 2015); In re Medpoint Mgmt., 2015); In re McGinnis , 453 B.R. The Federal Controlled Substances Act 21 U.S.C. §§801-904

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SpeedWeed

MAY 20, 2021

The purpose of the criminal justice system is to punish those who break the law, deter them from making similar mistakes, and give them the opportunity to become productive members of society,” Judge Latrice Westbrooks wrote in a dissenting opinion. .

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

PUBLISHER: CANNABIS LAW REPORT. sat on the Denver County Court bench 2000-2015. She is currently a law school professor teaching Marijuana and the Law at California Western School of Law and researcher under a contract with NHTSA and NORC on the topic of the prosecution of drugged driving cases. Kleignen, 2015.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Brian Kemp signed it into law. The appointments were a key step for patients who have been allowed to use the drug since 2015 but had no legal way to buy, grow or transport it. State law allows marijuana oil to treat severe seizures, terminal cancers, Parkinson’s disease and other illnesses.

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Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Long before that bill failed, the Idaho Attorney General issued an informal opinion (see pages 132-134) on the legality of Hemp-CBD in 2015. The Idaho Office of Drug Policy’s webpage on CBD Drug Policy indicates that Idaho’s position on CBD has not changed as of June 2019 and that the informal opinion from 2015 is still followed.

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SpeedWeed

MAY 14, 2021

As a sovereign nation not subject to state laws, the tribe’s decision to decriminalize cannabis possession of up to an ounce makes it the first area in North Carolina to remove marijuana possession penalties. . In 2015, the Cherokee Indian Hospital Authority invested in two new medical facilities to treat addiction.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Despite the growing public acceptance of marijuana and the fact that a majority of states have legalized marijuana for medicinal purposes (37 states and the District of Columbia have enacted medical marijuana legislation), federal law still treats marijuana cultivation and sale as a criminal offense. See 21 U.S.C. §

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Cannabis Chronicles

DECEMBER 26, 2018

State laws prohibits anyone convicted of a felony in the past 10 years or two misdemeanors in the past three years from possessing a marijuana license. Growstate has sold $7 million worth of marijuana since 2015, according to state records.

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