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Let's Make 2023 the Year of the Patient!

Americans for Safe Access

This year Americans for Safe Access celebrated our 20-year anniversary. During 2022, I spent a lot of time reconnecting with ASA members and supporters. One common thing I heard from everyone was despair about the state of medical cannabis in the U.S.

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Looking Ahead to 2023: NORML’s State-Level Legislative Goals and Expectations

NORML

As a patient and consumer focused advocacy organization, NORML prioritizes efforts in favor of state-level legislation that seeks to achieve the following goals. We are also keeping an eye on the following states for 2023 advancement.

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State Policy Weekly Update 5/24/2023

NORML

The post State Policy Weekly Update 5/24/2023 appeared first on NORML. Highlights include LA, ME, MD, MN, MT, NV, NH, NY, OH, PA, and RI.

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ASA Demanded a Pregnant Medical Cannabis Patient Should Not be on a Child-Abuse Registry…and the AZ Supreme Court Agreed!

Americans for Safe Access

On January 5, 2023, the Arizona Supreme Court declined to accept an appeal from the Arizona Department of Child Safety, letting stand a lower court decision that Lindsay Ridgell’s medicinal use of cannabis while pregnant did not constitute child neglect and ordered her name be removed from the state’s child abuse registry.

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Medical Cannabis Stakeholders: Buck up, It is Time for Act II!

Americans for Safe Access

Almost every conversation I have had in 2023 with medical cannabis stakeholders has been full of doom and gloom. Advocates are discouraged, businesses are frustrated, patients are disheartened, and frankly I am getting a little tired of it! Policies, like patients, get infected if they stay in triage for too long.

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Illinois 2023 medical sales lowest start in two years

Illinois News Joint

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) updated its January 2023 and February 2023 medical cannabis sales totals yesterday for the first time this year. Medical cannabis sales for 2023 started well below the 2022 and 2021 monthly totals. In January 2023, Illinois collected $27,621,022.42

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Illinois cannabis patients ignored for another year

Illinois News Joint

December 2022, I published a 6-part series titled, “What Illinois cannabis patients really want” to start a dialogue about the large gap between patients’ needs, wishes, concerns, and recommendation for improving the Medical Cannabis Patient Program (MCPP) and the actual amendments to the law legislators have introduced.

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