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Virginia Governor Calls for Amendments to Restriction Bill That Protects Patient Access to CBD Products

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Bill to Permit Retail Cannabis Sales in Virginia by 2024 Following a failed attempt to launch a legal market in Virginia, retail cannabis sales have stalled until 2024. Lawmakers have proposed a 2024 target date for legal sales to finally commence. The bill to permit cannabis possession was approved in 2021.

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Washington State Eliminates Medical Cannabis Taxation

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Qualifying patients and providers are exempt from the general and local sales and use taxes on the sale of cannabis products compliant with the Department of Health (“DOH”) but have continued to be subject to the 37% excise tax, until now. The bill now waits for signatures and executive action to become law.

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Cancer Patients Trade Opiates for Cannabis, Alcohol’s Popularity Drops Among Teens, and Colorado Announces New Regulations

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Cannabis Helps Cancer Patients Ditch Opiates, Study Finds. The patients came from 34 states that had not legalized medical cannabis by Jan. The study tracked the patients’ opiate use, seeing how it changed as some of the 34 states legalized medical cannabis over the five-year span. Let’s dive into this week’s cannanews.

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8 February – California: AB-1885 Cannabis and cannabis products: animals: veterinary medicine Introduced

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Cannabis and cannabis products: animals: veterinary medicine. Existing law, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, an initiative measure, authorizes the use of cannabis for medical purposes and provides certain protections to a physician and surgeon who recommends the use of medical cannabis to a patient.

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Medical Cannabis Advisory Board hosts inaugural meeting

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Monday, August 7, and started with introductions from the multitude of members with diverse cannabis-related backgrounds, including nurses, doctors, medical patients, teachers, and more. The medical patient also mentioned the high costs of medicine. The next meeting is scheduled for February 2024.

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Medical Cannabis Advisory Board sets agenda for second meeting

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7, 2023) started with introductions from a multitude of members with diverse cannabis-related backgrounds, including nurses, doctors, medical patients, teachers, and more. Before adjourning, two medical patients spoke to MCAB and gave suggestions for improvement for the program with personal anecdotes. The inaugural meeting (Aug.

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The Week in Weed: December 9, 2022

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President Biden signed an act allowing researchers to study cannabis, in an effort to learn more about its medicinal properties. Our new law will remove excessive barriers that make it difficult for researchers to study the effectiveness and safety of marijuana, and hopefully, give patients more treatment options.” MARIJUANA RESEARCH.

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