Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Psilocybin has been in the news with increasing frequency as research into psychedelic therapy has proliferated, and a number of local jurisdictions, including the cities of Oakland, Denver , and Santa Cruz have decriminalized psilocybin to varying degrees. 30 Day Public Comment period ended on 4th December 2019.

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NORML

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

” 11 states and Washington DC have legalized marijuana for adult-use, and dozens more have passed laws decriminalizing its possession and use. By cosponsoring the MORE Act, Assistant Speaker Lujan becomes the most senior member of the House of Representatives to endorse legislation to end federal marijuana criminalization.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Several mayors across the state of New Jersey are calling for automatic expungement provisions to be included in the state’s marijuana regulation bill, and are threatening to ban retail sales in their jurisdictions if state lawmakers pass legislation without it.

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NORML

MARCH 14, 2020

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state. Legislation is pending, HCR 2045, that seeks to arbitrarily cap the potency of cannabis flowers at two percent THC.

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NORML

MARCH 8, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Governor Mark Gordon (R) of Wyoming signed industrial hemp production legislation into law. Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state. AL resident?

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NORML

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! At the state level, the North Dakota House of Representatives defeated a decriminalization bill on the House floor by a narrow 43-47 vote. Click here to email your Representative and urge them to support this important legislation. AZ resident?

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NORML

MAY 3, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Governor Jay Inslee (D) of Washington signed legislation into law allowing medical cannabis to be accessed by patients on school grounds, and separate legislation allowing the production of industrial hemp in accordance with new federal hemp regulations.

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NORML

MARCH 22, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Governor Ron DeSantis (R) of Florida signed legislation into law to restore patients’ right to smoke medical cannabis. And Steelton Borough, Pennsylvania passed an ordinance to decriminalize up to 30 grams of cannabis possession. California.

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NORML

JANUARY 4, 2019

Happy New Year and welcome to the first Weekly Legislative Roundup of 2019! And at a more local level, Dayton, Ohio is considering a proposal to completely decriminalize marijuana and remove the $150 possession fine. Pre-filed legislation seeks to allow for the use, possession, and retail sale of marijuana by adults.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! ” At a more local level, the decriminalization policy in Dayton, Ohio went into effect this week. Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

Recently enacted Thai legislation has removed Mitragyna speciosa, commonly known as “kratom ,” from the list of controlled narcotics under the Narcotics Act B.E. 2562 (2019). On June 1, 2021, the government announced that draft legislation regulating the sale and use of kratom plants was approved by the cabinet. tilleke.com.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

It’s been a busy year for lawmakers eager to consider psychedelic drug reform legislation. From Hawaii to California to Maine, elected representatives proposed bills that would allow for the study of psychedelic substances in the treatment of mental health conditions and others that would decriminalize psychedelic drugs at the state level.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

January 31, 2019. Portland, OR — Today the Oregon Liquor Control Commission provided the Oregon Legislative Assembly with the 2019 Recreational Marijuana Supply and Demand Legislative Report required by ORS 475B.548. 2019 Recreational Marijuana Supply and Demand Legislative Report.

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The Blunt Truth

AUGUST 6, 2019

On July 29, 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) signed state legislation that further decriminalizes the possession of cannabis. While some advocates of cannabis legalization see the passage of the decriminalization bill as a victory, others believe it missed the mark.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Today, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) along with Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Ro Khanna (D-CA), introduced The Marijuana Justice Act of 2019, to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and incentivize states to end the racially disparate criminalization of marijuana consumers. “Rep. .” “Rep.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 18, 2021

Among the many changes that this new legislation brought were amendments to and expansion of New York’s lawful off-duty conduct law to protect cannabis use by employees when they are not on the job. Remedies for prevailing plaintiffs include reinstatement, back wages, attorneys’ fees and costs.

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Veriheal

JUNE 5, 2023

The Texas House of Representatives passed a bill that would decriminalize the possession of one ounce and below of marijuana. During the last two legislative sessions in 2019 and 2021, the House had passed similar pot decriminalization bills but they were stalled, having faced opposition in the Senate. Steve Toth.

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NORML

APRIL 1, 2019

Cannabis legalization was not included in the 2019 – 2020 New York State Budget. We have been talking a lot about the CRTA in the past few months, the Cannabis Regulation and Taxation Act, legislation drafted to legalize cannabis for adult-use, written by a team created by Governor Cuomo.

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Veriheal

AUGUST 24, 2022

The city of Denver, Colorado, decriminalized the possession and use of psilocybin in 2019—the first U.S. In a statement to The Denver Post, Natural Medicine Colorado—which sponsored the act—said “the measure is designed to prioritize mental health and healing, while balancing safety and access.” city to do so.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Medical marijuana has received more attention from legislators, scientists, researchers, clinicians, and the general public than any other topic. . Advocates claim that legalizing decreases crime rates, lowers criminal justice expenses, improves public health, generates tax revenue, enhances traffic safety, and promotes the economy. .

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NORML

JANUARY 28, 2019

The good news for Kentucky legislators is the data already i s available. The negative effects of alcohol abuse, both on the user and their loved ones, are well documented, so it’s odd Stivers and the Kentucky Senate lack the same concern for data and safety when it comes to alcohol. 8 – state Rep.

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SpeedWeed

JUNE 6, 2021

Although lawmakers have officially described this bill as a decriminalization initiative, the legislation clearly states that it would “make lawful” the possession and social sharing of psilocybin, DMT, LSD, MDMA, ibogaine, and pretty much every other psychedelic drug.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

This is a turnaround from earlier statements Crapo made in opposition to any pro-cannabis legislation. House Judiciary Chairman Jerrod Nadler (D-NY) wrote to NORML members asking for grassroots support for his cannabis legislation, the MORE Act. The SAFE Banking Act (H.R.

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SpeedWeed

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Already, New York has taken steps to decriminalize cannabis and as this new market is realized, and it’s critical that criminal penalties are thoughtfully assigned, as to ensure that the progress which has already been made, is not inadvertently reversed. View original article. The post New York Gov.

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NORML

MAY 20, 2019

Partially as a legislative apology for the frivolous and unnecessary wrongs of the War on Drugs and partially to boost possible employment opportunities to past “offenders”, Assembly Bill 192 would create a program for anyone with permanent criminal charges to apply for the records of those crimes to be sealed.

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Canna Law Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

To acknowledge its impressive safety record and potential for treating depression more effectively than existing therapies, the Food and Drug Administration designated psilocybin a breakthrough therapy in 2018 and 2019 for treating drug-resistant depression and major depressive disorder. The first is legislative.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 13, 2019

A few years ago, marijuana businesses were wondering if they would even survive the legislative session without some sort of political crackdown. But there are no existential threats in 2019 from lawmakers, who have baked the proceeds of marijuana taxes into their budgets and rolled out a bounty of other bills seeking to help the industry.

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Veriheal

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Many people wonder if Congress has made any progress in passing legislation to remedy this recently. The SAFE Banking Act was introduced in 2019 and has passed the House seven times, but it still needs to make it to the Senate floor. Additionally, the legislation would expunge existing criminal, nonviolent cannabis-related records.

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The Blunt Truth

AUGUST 13, 2019

In March of 2019, the FDA established a Working Group to determine the possible legislative pathways to regulate CBD. Specifically, the group aims to “make recommendations” on CBD legislation to Congress. In 2019, the FDA issued warning letters to four companies marketing and selling CBD products.

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SpeedWeed

JULY 6, 2021

The Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) is a three-year project aiming to “promote safety, innovation, and equity in psychedelics research, commerce, and therapeutics,” the university said in a press release. Several prestigious American universities have launched their own psychedelics centers in the past decade.

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NORML

AUGUST 26, 2019

And, 2019’s SB 1557 makes it possible for patients to get as much as 10mg of THC in each dose — the same limit as one serving size for edibles in adult-use states. We had the Joint Commission on Health Care introduce that legislation for the 2018 session; it passed unanimously. It removed qualifying conditions altogether.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 5, 2020

However, the state decriminalized recreational cannabis in July 2019. However, it was stalled in the senate and will be in the legislative agenda 2020. In 2019, Governor Lujan Grisham approved a bill to decriminalize possessing cannabis up to a half-ounce. Decriminalization of recreational marijuana .

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

The Safe Cannabis Sales Act of 2019 builds on Initiative 71, which decriminalized marijuana usage in Washington, D.C., The slogan for #SafeCannabisDC is “Safety, Equity, Clarity.”. Safe-Cannabis-Act-2019-Proposed-Legislation. District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser is pushing for marijuana legalization.

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 17, 2021

New York state decriminalized minor cannabis possession way back in 2014, but that detail never stopped New York City cops from busting people of color for weed. According to a new report by Comptroller Scott Stringer, it now costs NYC $447,337 to incarcerate one person for a year, a 30 percent increase over 2019.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 9, 2021

Not only are more and more jurisdictions decriminalizing the use of psychedelics for recreational purposes, but it appears that psychedelic substances are the new horizon for the treatment of severe psychological disorders and other ailments. Published Via JD Supra. The state of the law on psychedelic substances is in flux.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 3, 2020

Members of the SPD in Germany have adopted a cannabis policy platform that endorses decriminalization and calls for pilot program to study legal recreational use. He also released a criminal justice policy platform calling for decriminalizing cannabis possession and mass expungement of prior cannabis convictions. ” State.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

ii] Both are California appellate court decisions decided in 2019. Put in the simplest terms, Raybon says Proposition 64 decriminalized possession of cannabis (within the parameters of the law) in correctional institutions and Perry says it did not. [iii] Considering California’s Legislative Goals. Perry [i] and People v.

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