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Weekly Legislative Roundup 6/7/19

NORML

Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 34, which would exempt compassionate care programs from paying state cannabis taxes when they are providing free medical cannabis to financially disadvantaged people living with serious health conditions. Click here to email your lawmakers in support of compassionate care programs. Update : S.

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Weekly Legislative Roundup 2/22

NORML

Regulate Nationally : The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2019 (HR 420) seeks to deschedule cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act, thus permitting state governments to regulate these activities as they see fit. Update : Both bills are scheduled for a public hearing in the Joint Committee on Environment on 3/1.

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

Cannabis Law Report

She was the lead staffer and drafter of the MCRSA at the California State Legislature in 2015. . California’s Cannabis Advisory Committee (CAC) was scheduled to meet on March 27 for its first meeting of 2019. However, neither the state nor the locals have really provided any best practices for the industry.

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Weekly Legislative Roundup 5/24/19

NORML

Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 34, which would exempt compassionate care programs from paying state cannabis taxes when they are providing free medical cannabis to financially disadvantaged people living with serious health conditions. Click here to email your lawmakers in support of compassionate care programs. Update : S.

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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. STATE OF FLORIDA. Clearing the Air- Florida Condensed Cannabis . CANNABIS PRIMER.

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Pot in the can: Why can’t inmates get medical marijuana?

The Cannigma

Legalization “reduces the footprint for the law environment to impact and traumatize people,” Goldstein added, and can stop police from having a role in affecting individuals’ healthcare. Cannabis has been legal for adults to use and possess since 2018 in California, and the state has had a legal medical cannabis program since 1996.

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Weekly Legislative Roundup 3/15/18

NORML

Additionally, Representatives Charlie Crist (D-FL) and Don Young (R-AK) introduced The Fairness in Federal Drug Testing Under State Laws Act to explicitly bar federal agencies from discriminating against workers solely because of their status as a cannabis consumer, or due to testing positive for marijuana use on a workplace drug test.