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The Status of Cannabis Legalization in the South

Cannabis Law Report

Alabama legalized medical a medical cannabis program on May 17, 2021 when Governor Ivey signed SB 46 into law. Although medical cannabis program was signed into law last year, it has yet to be fully implemented. While cannabis legalization moves full steam ahead through much of the Northeast, the southeastern U.S.

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Massachusetts: cannabis bill sails through committee

Cannabis Law Report

Lawmakers passed up their opportunities to act before voters approved decriminalization in 2008, medical marijuana in 2012 and adult legalization in 2016, but then delayed and rewrote significant portions of the 2016 ballot law legalizing marijuana. Sonia Chang-Diaz, co-chair of the Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy, said.

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Cannabis Laws & the Southern States

Cannabis Law Report

The region has been instrumental in highly regulated industries, such as alcohol and tobacco, and the only federally sanctioned cannabis grow program has operated at the University of Mississippi since the 1960s. Although several Southern states have enacted medical cannabis programs, no states have embraced recreational use of cannabis.

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Clearing the Air: Florida Condensed Cannabis

Cannabis Law Report

For those of you in the dark about Florida’s Medical Marijuana Program, I will be lighting up the dim corners of Florida: The Nation’s Fastest-Growing Medical Marijuana Market , according to The Miami New Times on May 2, 2019. If you wish to re-publish this story please do so with following accreditation. AUTHOR: Heather Allman.

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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. It is not a story about profiting off of people.

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Florida Appellate Court Agrees with Trial Court that Medical Marijuana Licensing Scheme Conflicts with Florida’s Constitution

Greenspoon Marder Cannabis Law Group Blog

The ruling creates uncertainty regarding the sustainability of Florida’s current licensing structure governing its medical marijuana program. Notably, the lawsuit challenged the constitutionality of (a) the requirement that MMTCs perform all business operations from seed to sale (i.e., Background. Florigrown Case. 1D18-4471 ).

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Hemp Farmers In Massachusetts Worried About Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) Guidance on CBD product Sales In The State

Cannabis Law Report

If I am licensed or permitted as a food manufacturer or retailer in Massachusetts, is it legal to add hulled hemp seeds, hemp seed protein, and/or hemp seed oil to food I manufacture and/or sell at retail? The MDAR Hemp Program does not provide an exception to the federal prohibition against adding CBD into food products.