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Manzuri Law Blog Post: The Cannabis Advisory Committee: Going from Puppeteering to Action

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An-Chi Tsou is the principal at Tsou Consulting, LLC, specializing in state and local regulatory and legislative compliance, guidance, and advocacy. She was the lead staffer and drafter of the MCRSA at the California State Legislature in 2015. . Authored By: An-Chi Tsou.

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Is Transporting Hemp Really Worth the Risk?

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As we wrote back in early 2019, the prohibition on interference ONLY applied to hemp cultivated under the 2018 Farm Bill. To be fair, the USDA did issue an opinion in mid-2019 that stated that states/tribes could not prohibit the interstate transport of hemp produced under the 2014 Farm Bill.

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Cannabis Banking Today

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My law firm has done a series of these for credit unions (“CU”s) and other financial institutions (“FIs”) going back to 2014. We have also handled a good bit of hemp banking work – mostly in 2019 and 2020 before that industry cratered. I have opined on this blog that “ all businesses are marijuana businesses ” in the MRB context.

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California Hemp Cultivation: It’s Complicated

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Those posts, however, were more geared towards the manufacture and sale of hemp-derived cannabidiol (“Hemp CBD”) products than the actual cultivation of hemp, which is becoming an increasingly important topic in the hemp industry in the wake of the federal Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (or “2018 Farm Bill”).

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Washington CBD Webinar June 19: Hemp-Derived CBD Locally and Nationwide

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On June 19, 2019, at 1:30 PST, the Washington State Bar Association’s Cannabis Law Section will be presenting an online CLE on hemp. I’ll be joined by my esteemed colleagues to shed some light on hemp laws both nationally and here in the Evergreen State. Industrial Hemp: Don’t Forget About State Law!

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The Business of Marijuana in Oregon: Join Us May 17!

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In exactly two weeks, on May 17, 2019, our own Vince Sliwoski will co-chair an all-day continuing legal education (CLE) event in Portland called The Business of Marijuana in Oregon , along with Danica Hibpshman, Director of Statewide Licensing at the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC).

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New York Medical Marijuana Guide

Cannabis Law Report

The governor also launched an initiative to analyze how marijuana legalization for recreational use would affect the state in general. The Department of Health conducted a formal study on this topic in 2018. What did pass in 2019 was a handful of marijuana decriminalization measures. Cannabis laws vary greatly by state.