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Enforcement or Compliance

Canna Law Blog

This is all very bad and we collectively need to figure out how to get people to comply with state law rather than penalizing everything. The issue of enforcement or compliance is probably the biggest one most states face at the policy level. compliance tradeoff. This left enforcement to state regulators.

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Update: DOJ and SAFE Banking Act

Canna Law Blog

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that two of the biggest problems for the cannabis industry overall are access to financial institutions and I.R.C. This is definitely an issue with these piecemeal cannabis bills: there will always be collateral effects regarding compliance with other, existing federal laws.

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Illinois gives guidance for Cannabis Loan Funds

Illinois News Joint

million in direct forgivable loans, fully financed by the State of Illinois, will be made available to all conditionally-approved social-equity loan applicants in order to provide immediate access to capital. The Department also collects confidential information for oversight and monitoring purposes.

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Weekly Legislative Roundup 3/15/18

NORML

1647, the Veterans Equal Access Act, which expands medical cannabis access to eligible military veterans. Alaska became the first state to permit on-site adult use cannabis consumption, as Lt. Senate Bill 1353 seeks to amend the state’s existing industrial hemp law to be in compliance with the new federal hemp regulations.

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A Look Back at California Cannabis in 2022

Canna Law Blog

It’s hard to read the tea leaves in a lot of cases – inspections can be a prelude to enforcement, but they can also be a way for the agencies to spur compliance without clogging up the court system. Under state law, CDTFA collected both a cultivation tax and an excise tax. inhalable v.

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Federal Agencies Provide New Guidance for Hemp Banking

Canna Law Blog

The tides have been rapidly changing for hemp companies to gain access to banking, which has not traditionally been available to hemp companies due to the fact that hemp was (sort of) federally illegal until about a year ago. That has made it very difficult for many hemp and hemp-derived CBD (“Hemp-CBD”) businesses to access bank accounts.

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Looking Back on 25 Years of California Cannabis: Growing Pains (STILL) Persist

Canna Law Blog

It was about legitimately ill Californians finally getting access to cannabis to self-medicate, and it did an amazing job serving that end goal. 215 opened the door for a collective model (i.e., 215 opened the door for a collective model (i.e., 215 wasn’t about legalizing, regulating, and taxing cannabis at all.