NORML

JANUARY 18, 2019

At the state level, patients in Ohio and Oklahoma now have access to medical cannabis, as sales began in both states this week. Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) of New York and Governor Gina Raimondo (D) of Rhode Island both included plans for cannabis legalization as a part of their budget proposals in their respective states.

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NORML

JANUARY 11, 2019

Legislation is pending, House Bill 1272, to expand access to medical cannabis in North Dakota. Legislation is pending, House Bill 350, to expand medical cannabis access. Legislation is pending, House Bill 335, to expand access to medical cannabis in New Hampshire. Click here to email your lawmakers in support of medical access.

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NORML

MARCH 15, 2019

1647, the Veterans Equal Access Act, which expands medical cannabis access to eligible military veterans. Department of Agriculture held a hemp listening session this week as regulators work to establish rules and regulations for production. Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) has reintroduced H.R. HI resident? MD resident?

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NORML

APRIL 26, 2019

At the state level, Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota signed a package of bills into law to expand the state’s medical cannabis access program. House Bill 243, as well as Senate Bill 236, would provide registered patients with regulated access to medical cannabis via licensed providers. AL resident?

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NORML

JUNE 28, 2019

Click here to email your lawmakers in support of medical cannabis access at school. Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 305, to permit qualified patients the ability to access medical cannabis preparations while in health care facilities. Click here to email your lawmakers in support of medical cannabis access in healthcare facilities.

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NORML

JANUARY 25, 2020

House Bill 1089 would prohibit employers terminating an employee for the employee’s lawful off-duty activities that are lawful under state law even if those activities are not lawful under federal law, such as consuming marijuana. Send a message to your lawmakers in support of medical marijuana access.

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NORML

JUNE 7, 2019

Governor Kate Brown (D) of Oregon signed legislation into law that prohibits landlords from arbitrarily refusing to provide housing access to an individual based solely on their status as a medical cannabis patient, or based solely on an individual’s prior cannabis conviction. CA resident? Update : S. NC resident? OH resident?

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Cannabis Chronicles

JUNE 27, 2019

They also reflect updates to state law, such as eliminating “collective gardens,” which were previously used for medical marijuana. The code revisions would permit marijuana production and processing in some areas zoned agricultural, forest or industrial. The proposed changes to the code provide a definition of “marijuana.”

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NORML

MARCH 22, 2019

Under state law, adults face civil penalties for minor marijuana possession offenses. Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 59, to expand medical cannabis access. Legislation is pending, House Bill 673 / Senate Bill 1430, to expand medical cannabis access. Click here to email your lawmakers in support of banking access.

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NORML

MAY 31, 2019

Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 236, to allow qualifying patients with certain debilitating conditions to use and safely access medical cannabis. Click here to email your governor in support of medical cannabis access. Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 1286, to expand patient access to medical cannabis in Arizona.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 3, 2021

Consistent with the definition of “hemp” under the Agricultural Marketing Act, this exception would only apply to extracts from the plant Cannabis sativa L. The bill follows the passage of several state laws and the creation of state regulations permitting the sale and distribution of dietary supplements and foods that contain CBD.

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Canna Law Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Just last week, the California Attorney General, on behalf of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (“CDFA”), sued a number of persons and entities , claiming that they had cultivated and processed cannabis without licenses. The penalties that the state can seek are no joke. Anyone can do this math.

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Veriheal

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

California’s renowned wine and weed industries may seem like a simply lucrative pairing for the state. Can these two agricultural treasures of the Golden State coexist in harmony? So, state law initially imposed a one-acre limit on the size of individual cannabis farms until 2023.

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

This article breaks down how cannabis is regulated in Australia, including federal laws, state law variations, key regulatory bodies, and Australia’s cannabis importation rules. The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry manages import and export regulations, including issuing permits for plant materials.

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Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

If you’ve been following the hemp scene in Washington state, you know it’s been a bit of a roller coaster. The latest “drop” comes in the form of an August 1 memo from the Washington State Department of Agriculture (“WSDA”) titled Restrictions on the use of hemp CBD as a food ingredient.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Today, I intro’d the #StatesReformAct a turnkey federal tax and regulate framework for existing state laws. As a result, many financial institutions have chosen not to offer accounts to businesses they believe are involved in the marijuana industry, even if they are fully licensed and compliant under state law.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Until 2019, however, no law provided a way to access that oil. With the passage of HB 324 and the creation of the Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission in 2019, Georgia seemed poised to begin licensing producers and dispensaries. Three years later, however, the state still has neither.

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Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 23, 2019

Financial institutions that work with marijuana businesses must conduct due diligence to ensure that marijuana businesses are complying with state law. That has made it very difficult for many hemp and hemp-derived CBD (“Hemp-CBD”) businesses to access bank accounts. That is changing.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In May 2019, Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried announced that a newly-created and appointed Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee of 18 doctors, lawyers, patients, industry leaders, and advocates will be implemented in order to “advance and modernize policies” to move Florida into the future of medical marijuana.

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Kind Meds (Cannabis Education Blog)

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Why Patients Need Access to Pesticide-Free Marijuana. Marijuana laws have evolved significantly over the past few decades, with many states allowing adults to purchase and consume marijuana for medical use, recreation or both. Pesticide-Related Health Problems. There is also uncertainty surrounding marijuana’s status as a crop.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

This proposed bill serves many important policy considerations and is an important step in changing the stigma surrounding the cannabis industry by providing accessible and educational opportunities for consumption while simultaneously providing safe and lawful consumption sites. .

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

As most brokers in Canada , including many discount and online brokers, have the ability to buy and sell securities listed on Nasdaq, Village Farms’ Nasdaq listing will continue to provide shareholders with the same accessibility to trade the Company’s common shares. About Village Farms International, Inc.

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Greenspoon Marder Cannabis Law Group Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

In light of these concerns, most banks have denied cannabis-related businesses access to bank accounts and other financial services. As a result, many marijuana businesses have remained cash-only. As cash-only businesses, many cannabis businesses become possible targets for theft.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the availability of two programs that protect hemp producers’ crops from natural disasters. Information on eligible counties is accessible through the USDA Risk Management Agency’s Actuarial Information Browser. Full Release & Contact Info. Press Release. Release No.

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Medicinal Genomics

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Navigating local, state, and federal regulations Although state-licensed cannabis labs are legal under state law, the federal government sees them in violation of federal law. In cannabis testing, this role is moved from the FDA to the local state authority.

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Veriheal

MARCH 31, 2022

“We want real community reinvestment that supports the kinds of needs—things like social services and harm reduction and educational support and economic development—that truly increase access to opportunity for New Jerseyans and help communities thrive.”. New York Cannabis.

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) released its interim hemp rules. Plans must also ensure that samples are representative of an entire hemp lot and the state or tribal agency charged with testing must have unrestricted access to all land, building, and structures used for the cultivation, handling, and storage of hemp.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 24, 2019

[Note: while we don’t believe that anyone in Congress has proposed it yet, the Federal government could legalize cannabis for medical use [and perhaps for recreational use] and preempt many of the state laws. See The Murky Part of the STATES Act: Tribal Rights ]. You can access the whitepapers to view here.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 18, 2019

The rights of Californians to have access to cannabis for medical use is discussed in Keeping Proposition 215’s. of Food and Agriculture [“CDFA”]. [5] of Food and Agriculture [“CDFA”]. [5] Promise , which points out that Proposition 215 also led to the lawsuit, People v. of Public Health [“CDPH”].

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SMPL

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Under state law, only nine pharmacies in nine zones across 52,000 square miles received permits to dispense medical marijuana. Republican state Agricultural Commissioner Mike Strain, whose department regulates the production of medical marijuana, doesn’t see a problem. .” It’s not.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2022

In The Weeds welcomes the new year, as well as a number of new cannabis laws and policies taking effect around the country in 2022. Below is a list of state law updates to look forward to this year. 1, Louisiana’s medical cannabis program allows patients to access smokable whole-plant flower marijuana. Happy 2022!

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 15, 2021

But consumers who buy products in this unregulated CBD market have no access to data showing the actual CBD and THC content of these products and have no way to determine whether these products are free of adulterants. . Testing and Labeling. Hemp manufacturers must meet all the following testing requirements: . (a)

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The Joint Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

After the Agriculture Act of 2018 was reauthorized, hemp, a species of the cannabis plant, has been legalized on the federal level. Hemp Plant State Laws. While hemp and CBD are legal on the federal level, state laws may have a thing or two to say about that.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

Here, we provide an overview of patent trends in the cannabis industry and how cannabusinesses can use patents to protect their technological, agricultural, genetic, or other innovations. We previously explored the applicability of trade secret protection to cannabis-related inventions.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 26, 2022

Thirty-nine states allow the use of medical marijuana, while 18 states and the District of Columbia permit both medical and recreational marijuana. 1 Despite what would appear to be increasingly lawful access to cannabis, it is still classified by U.S. 14 The Farm Bill removed low-THC hemp, which contains 0.3%

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Greenspoon Marder Cannabis Law Group Blog

JULY 18, 2019

New Jersey recently responded to public demand to revise and expand its medical marijuana program to address issues such as supply scarcity, employment and hiring concerns, and geographic access problems. The Garden State’s Governor, Phil Murphy, signed the Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act (CUMMA) on July 2, 2019.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 20, 2019

New Jersey recently responded to public demand to revise and expand its medical marijuana program to address issues such as supply scarcity, employment and hiring concerns, and geographic access problems. The Garden State’s Governor, Phil Murphy, signed the Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act (CUMMA) on July 2, 2019.

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