MJ Business Attorneys

JULY 24, 2019

Areas that have approved the sale of cannabis still deal with a “gray market” where legal and illegal marijuana markets coexist. It is a scenario that frustrates legal cannabis businesses and law enforcement alike.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The ACT’s policy conflicts with Australian federal law, which defines cannabis-related activities as criminal offenses. Between 2017 and 2018, Australian police made over 72,000 marijuana-related arrests – 92 percent of which were for personal possession. The use of marijuana in public remains prohibited.

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Veriheal

MARCH 29, 2023

However, a 2023 study debunks many myths about the potential dangers of legalizing cannabis. This groundbreaking research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry (JAMA), challenges previous claims that marijuana legalization increases psychosis and other mental health issues. 1, 2003, to Dec.

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Project CBD

MARCH 8, 2019

As so often happens, however, public demand is a few steps ahead of the medical and legal establishment. Both categories face their own individual legal challenges while the veterinary profession has its own internal battle on how to address the growing interest and body of research to support the use of medical cannabis for animals.

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CannaMD

MARCH 3, 2021

Law enforcement, policy makers, and public citizens have long debated how recreational marijuana legalization influences crime and public safety. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy , and PLOS One – discovering a buffer effect and decreased crime rates. Most existing research focuses on crime in legalized states.

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WeedAdvisor

JUNE 22, 2019

Although still not fully confirmed, marijuana policy in Colombia appears to be inching closer to legalization. According to Forbes, the issue lay in Colombia’s 2017 Police Code – a set of laws put forth by President Iván Duque, who remains president to this day. Medical cannabis has been legal for the last three years.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 1, 2021

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is engaged in a three-year initiative to examine the ethical, legal, and social implications of psychedelics research, commerce, and therapeutics. Here’s the press release. The Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR).

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The Cannigma

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Medical: legal Recreational: illegal. Recreational marijuana is illegal in Sweden, where strict, even “ repressive ” drug policies belie the country’s progressive image. Sweden legalized medical marijuana in 2012 but the program is highly restrictive and the Scandinavian country has yet to legalize recreational marijuana.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 9, 2022

Legalizing cannabis for adults has been a wise investment. Since 2014 when sales began in Colorado and Washington, legalization policies have provided states a new revenue stream to bolster budgets and fund important services and programs. billion in tax revenue from legal, adult-use cannabis sales. Colorado (pop.

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Canna Law Blog

JULY 26, 2023

This USDA study , figure 2, page 4, shows states reporting nearly 30,000 total hemp acres “licensed or approved” for cultivation in 2017. The study with 2017 data contains a disclaimer that “not all States reported data on the same basis.” Also, the 2017 data includes acreage for “approved” and not exclusively “cultivated”, hemp.

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The Cannigma

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

However, due to the country’s rough history with alcohol and drug usage among teens, particularly in the 90’s, the country’s policies towards cannabis are quite strict. Is cannabis legal in Iceland? A brief legal overview. percent of Icelandic participants were against the legalization of marijuana for personal use.

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NORML

JANUARY 28, 2020

” “This is likely the result of two major policy changes: More than twenty decriminalization or penalty downgrade ordinances passed by city councils across the Commonwealth, and approximately a quarter of a million registered medical marijuana patients,” said Goldstein. Most recently, in January, Norristown joined the list.

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NORML

JANUARY 28, 2019

The New York State Association of Police made a statement opposing legalization of cannabis for adult-use in New York, in response to Governor Cuomo’s announcement that he plans to pass legislation April 1st, with the budget, that will legalize cannabis for adult-use in New York. 1 year prior to legalization.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 19, 2020

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 a 2017 case in Rhode Island, Callaghan v. And, in the 2017, case Barbuto v. Front and center for the panel was the important topic of employee drug-testing.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 31, 2019

Blair Gibbs, the prime minister’s new policy adviser, is joining Downing Street from the Centre for Medicinal Cannabis. The prime minister is hiring Blair Gibbs, a long-term advocate of reforming cannabis laws, as one of his policy advisers in Downing Street. Buzzfeed News reports. ” Blair Gibbs / Twitter.

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Veriheal

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Does recreational cannabis legalization contribute to a spike in consumption? On the other hand, Martins and her team of researchers claim that legalization did not contribute to a rise in frequent cannabis consumption among the aforementioned groups since the year 2017. As of October 2021, 18 U.S. states and Washington, D.C.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The current public policies in local and state cannabis ordinance and equity programs may enhance racial disparities if they follow the pattern of exclusion and criminalization that encompass past policies promoted as beneficial to African Americans but uphold racial capitalistic practices. Authored By: By Dr. Ayoka Nurse.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 30, 2021

While marijuana use remains illegal at the federal level, 27 states and the District of Columbia have made medical use legal. This is a longitudinal dataset, displaying medical marijuana laws in effect as of January 1, 2014 through February 1, 2017. They write.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 18, 2022

The government has budgeted ten new positions to oversee the legalization of cannabis. If there is a “sure thing” in the world of German politics, it is when budgets are involved in pending policy. That is why, given all such signs this spring, cannabis legalization is pretty much assured – even if the details are not.

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The Joint Blog

MAY 25, 2020

The legalization of marijuana in Colorado is associated with a significant reduction in prescription opioid distribution, according to a new study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The study reports a greater than 30% reduction in opioid dispensing in Colorado between 2007 and 2017.

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SpeedWeed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Pete Ricketts said in March that he opposed medical cannabis because, ‘if you legalize marijuana, you’re going to kill your kids. Building on a prior study that analyzed YRBS data from 1993-2017, this updated effort offers an expanded view on the subject by adding in results from 2018 and 2019 as well. Nebraska Gov. Zack Ruskin.

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SpeedWeed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The new law legalizes cannabis possession up to one ounce, as well as cultivation of up to four personal plants per household, but requires that the grower tags their plants with their driver’s license/ID and a note saying that they are being grown for personal use. In July and August of 2020 , there were 257 arrests. “A

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The Cannigma

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Unlike in Amsterdam however, policies towards the sale and use of weed in Aruba are far less liberal. Is medical marijuana legal in Aruba? Like in Thailand and the Bahamas , Aruba’s parliament began making moves to legalize the cultivation of marijuana a number of years ago in efforts to stimulate the local economy.

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Veriheal

JULY 28, 2023

Gigi Hadid’s island getaway turned sour, Minnesota told officers to “ignore” psychedelic use, and companies ditched their cannabis testing policies. Hadid’s representative stated that the cannabis was legally purchased in New York City with a medical license. Let’s dive into this week’s canna-news.

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2021

But purchasing an insurance policy, as most of us know, is not the same as having coverage for certain kinds of losses. Plaintiffs owned a home in Grants Pass, Oregon, (the “Property”) which was insured by homeowner’s policy (the “Policy”). The cannabis here involved hemp harvested in 2017 and 2018. 381% by weight.

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The Cannigma

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Medical: Legal Recreational: Decriminalized. Norway has not legalized recreational cannabis but typically possession of less than 15 grams is punished with a simple fine. Furthermore, in 2017 the Norwegian parliament voted in favor of a measure to decriminalize drug use, shifting the focus of drug policies towards treatment.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 19, 2022

Long lines formed when marijuana sales at pharmacies began on July 19, 2017, three-and-a-half years after Uruguay became the first country in the modern era to legalize cannabis. The scientific research has shown that cannabis legalization and regulation have not increased consumption. None of that happened,” he said.

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NORML

JANUARY 9, 2019

First founded in 2017, the Caucus has been a pivotal element in our ability to build broad bipartisan support for legislation that would address every aspect of reform, from ending criminalization to research to veterans healthcare. “The Blumenauer. I encourage all Members to join us in this debate and explore the varying issues.”.

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The Blunt Truth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Because the state decriminalized recreational cannabis in 2017, the plaintiff argued that his employer could not terminate him for his off-duty use of the drug. He also sued for wrongful discharge. The district court dismissed the complaint in its entirety.

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 11, 2021

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s lower chamber approved a marijuana legalization bill Wednesday, setting the country on the path to becoming one of the world’s largest legal marijuana markets. Mexico is moving to legalize cannabis in 2021. These states could legalize cannabis next in 2021. What does that mean for the US?

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Veriheal

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

If passed, they will be the first real changes to the state’s highly criticized laws, which have remained untouched since 2017, according to The Boston Globe. As critics have noted, the lack of social consumption sites has left locals and tourists alike with no legal place to consume cannabis.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Fontana is on the hook for $106,916 in legal fees after a judge ruled in favor of a resident who argued that the city’s restrictive policy for people who want to grow cannabis at home violated California law. A revised policy is tentatively scheduled for a vote at the Feb. Photo by Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG).

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 16, 2022

City of Cartersville , a civil rights lawsuit filed by SCHR and The Merchant Law Firm, PC, after 64 young people were arrested for being present at a party on December 30, 2017, where less than an ounce of marijuana was found. It’s made me more aware of prejudice in the legal system, more aware of what happens to people every day.”.

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MMJ Recs

APRIL 11, 2024

West Virginia Medical Marijuana Program: A Primer Initiated in 2017, the West Virginia Medical Cannabis Act laid the foundation for the state’s comprehensive medical marijuana program. Upon approval, patients receive a medical marijuana ID card, which grants them legal access to purchase and possess medical cannabis.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 11, 2022

The mayor of London’s office said a panel of independent experts in criminal justice, public health, politics, community relations and academia will be assembled to consider evidence from around the world on the outcomes of various drug policies. The commission will not consider class A drugs. Source: [link].

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 11, 2021

The Institute will educate attorneys, policy makers, and members of the public on the implications and impact of the new law, touching on topics such as equity, labor law, social justice and more. The first event will be a Continuing Legal Education course for attorneys interested in learning the ins and outs of the expungement process.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 2, 2019

New Jersey took another big step towards legalizing the recreational adult-use of cannabis last week, but legislators stopped short of taking the historic vote. Over 60 New Jersey municipalities have already voted to ban retail cannabis establishments in anticipation of statewide legalization.

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