NORML

MARCH 29, 2019

Governor Jim Justice (R) of West Virginia signed legislation into law that allows financial institutions to provide banking services related to the state’s medical marijuana program. Late last week, the North Dakota State Senate overwhelmingly passed a measure to expand the state’s medical marijuana program. California.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

And Denver, Colorado’s mayor and district attorney launched a new program seeking to help those convicted of certain marijuana offenses expunge their records. Meanwhile, The Senate Committee on Agriculture and Environment killed SB 1335. The bill now awaits action from the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee.

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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. Days later, the Chief Deputy announced that the cite and release program will be put on hold, without further details. AL resident? CO resident? Connecticut. FL resident? LA resident?

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SpeedWeed

APRIL 1, 2021

Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Nikki Fried has always been pro-cannabis, and that isn’t going to change as she gains momentum in politics. . Since 2014, the state has made incremental progress, first legalizing CBD oil, then expanding its medical program in 2016. View original article.

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NORML

MARCH 15, 2019

Department of Agriculture held a hemp listening session this week as regulators work to establish rules and regulations for production. Click here to email your lawmakers in support of compassionate care programs. Update : SB 1352 was heard and unanimously approved by the House Committee on Agriculture on 3/13. AR resident?

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NORML

JUNE 7, 2019

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. CA resident?

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Project CBD

APRIL 11, 2023

And freedom of expression takes a hit when it comes to cannabis advocacy in the Czech Republic. Department of Agriculture.” We start with some positive news from the Golden State. Then a follow-up on our investigative report about Curaleaf, the world’s biggest cannabis company. Sponsored by CannaCraft, Inc.,

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NORML

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

In a phone conversation, Senator Ruckelshaus explained that the type of discussion he would like to see on this issue would involve several days of hearings where legislators can really dive into the details of how other states are implementing medical programs and which ones have the best practices that could be implemented in Indiana.

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NORML

MAY 10, 2019

Legislation is pending, HF 754 and SF 599, to establish an industrial hemp program to be in compliance with the new federal hemp regulations. The bill would allow the Department of Agriculture and Forestry to issue up to 15 cannabis production licenses. Update : HB 1325 was approved by the Senate Agriculture Committee on 5/7/19.

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NORML

JANUARY 11, 2019

At the state level, Governor Jay Inslee of Washington launched a new program and began granting pardons to those with past criminal misdemeanor marijuana-related convictions on their record. Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 1557, to expand the state’s low-THC medical cannabis oil program. TN resident? NH resident? South Carolina.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Update : The Environment and Agriculture Committee will hold a Public Hearing on HB 459 at 10am on 2/26/2019, Legislative Office Building 203. Senate Bill 477, to protect the rights of parents and guardians who participate in the state’s medical cannabis access program. NH resident? OK resident? South Carolina. TN resident?

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NORML

JUNE 28, 2019

Senator Ron Wyden and Congressman Earl Blumenauer introduced legislation to allow for interstate commerce when it comes to state-legal cannabis programs. Click here to email your lawmakers in support of compassionate care programs. 315 was scheduled for a hearing in the House Agriculture Committee on 6/26/19. This week, U.S.

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NORML

MAY 24, 2019

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. CA resident?

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Market Access Program, a public-private partnership in which the USDA matches industry funds to promote U.S. Atagi served as Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for the United States Department of Agriculture during the George W. commodities in the global marketplace.

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NORML

MARCH 22, 2019

Senate Bill 34 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. CA resident? KS resident? MN resident?

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 6, 2022

It’s an idea few in the cannabis advocacy community have considered. It’s an idea from a powerful gatekeeper: the chair of the House Agriculture Committee, Democratic Rep. But the suggestion isn’t coming from just any pro-legalization member of Congress. David Scott of Georgia.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 11, 2021

These bills are priorities for the Roundtable and are deserving of your advocacy. SB 235 unanimously passed the Senate Agriculture Committee and has been recommended for passage in a second committee. HB 640 would make technical changes to Louisiana’s hemp program and clarify that ingestible hemp products may be sold.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 26, 2019

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. Lighting Up Florida’s Medical Marijuana PEOPLE: The Front Lines. Cameron Vance, Ph.D.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 19, 2022

Cannabis farms are regulated under Oregon OSHA rules regarding agriculture , but, according to law enforcement officials in Southern Oregon , the worst working conditions often take place at illegal operations. Kathy Keese is one of the co-founders of Unete , a farm worker advocacy group in Southern Oregon. “We

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NORML

JANUARY 25, 2020

Legislation is pending in the House and Senate, HB 1131 / SB 5155, “Allowing residential marijuana agriculture.” Send a message to your lawmakers in support of parental protections. Washington. ” This bill allows adults to cultivate up to six marijuana plants in their home. WA resident?

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2019

Thanks to the 2014 Farm Bill, pilot programs in dozens of states have demonstrated the crop’s durability and its extraordinary economic opportunity. Collaboration on programs such as crop and health insurance, state check-off programs, and banking programs.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 26, 2022

Hemp Roundtable, in conjunction with our intrepid Advocacy Partners, the Virginia Hemp Coalition, is now in discussions with the Governor’s office to urge him to use his unusually broad powers to amend SB 591. The Governor listened, and the U.S. Pennsylvania.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 14, 2021

In September, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 67 into law, which set the stage for the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s (CDFA) Cannabis Appellations Program. Once the program begins to accept petitions, it will establish the world’s first cannabis appellations. .

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The CBD brand FullSend claims Nelk has conducted an “enforcement program” to put it out of business by threatening it with litigation and demanding it stop selling and advertising its products under what FullSend claims is its own mark. USDA invests $20M in sustainable hemp agriculture research. to interfere with its business.

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The Cannigma

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Serbia has no medical marijuana program. Despite medical programs in neighboring countries like Romania, Croatia, and North Macedonia, the Serbian government has refused to move forward. Farmers may grow industrial hemp, provided that they are registered with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management.

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NORML

JANUARY 18, 2019

Legislation is pending in the House and Senate, HB 1131 / SB 5155, “Allowing residential marijuana agriculture.”. Legislation is pending, House Bill 625, to establish an industrial hemp pilot program to be in compliance with the new federal hemp regulations. Click here to email your lawmakers in support of medical access. Washington.

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SpeedWeed

JULY 19, 2021

The wave of cannabis legalization is a net good: Growers are coming out of the shadows, the agricultural economy is getting a boost, and millions of people have access to the plant for a variety of purposes. In addition to its public policy and advocacy efforts towards legalization, Hawthorne has committed $2.5

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MMJ Recs

MARCH 16, 2024

The establishment of cultivation, processing, and dispensary facilities creates a diverse array of employment opportunities, spanning from agricultural roles to retail positions. Furthermore, market saturation and competition intensify as the industry expands, presenting challenges for new entrants and smaller businesses.

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The Joint Blog

JULY 21, 2019

.” “The decision to only award eight licenses were made to avoid an oversupply of product, while still maintaining a healthy diversity of cultivators for purposes of competition of product quality and patient pricing,” Andrew Rigby, director of the state’s medical cannabis and industrial hemp programs, said in a news release.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

WASHINGTON, DC —Vote Hemp, the nation’s leading grassroots hemp advocacy organization, has released its 2018 U.S. in 2018, with over triple the number of acres planted in hemp compared to last year and the addition of 4 more states with hemp programs,” said Eric Steenstra, President of Vote Hemp.“Now Hemp Crop Report.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Registered 23,000 patients for our Compassionate Pricing Program through Spectrum Therapeutics. Trained 93% of Canopy Growth employees on our pharmacovigilance program. Invested over $1 million in supporting record-clearing, wrap-around and ancillary services for people impacted by the war on drugs.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 25, 2021

She is a former recipient of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission’s Fair Housing Award for developing new programming in the fields of fair housing and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. Prior to joining Curaleaf (NASDAQ: CURLF), Ms. Brie Kralick, Director of Cultivation Operations, Hava Gardens.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

On the topic of sustainability, Florida also currently lacks a dedicated patient or clinic “cannabis collection” station for used cannabis products; an integrated program for safe disposal here in Florida must be addressed, by the Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee or other dedicated state body. . Reducing inequality.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 30, 2019

The informed patients, cannabis industry employees, and clinicians find it equally difficult to keep updated on Florida’s latest medical marijuana program news and changes. . A confusing amalgam of individual state programs and a pattern of national litigation and reversals litters the U.S. Department of Agriculture. .

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Co-founder and President Jacob Policzer explains that its label, TCC Standards of Sustainability, supports and recognizes cultivators whose agriculture practices are “beyond organic certification.”. But while cannabis is a business based around agriculture, there aren’t clear rules for how to make it more sustainable.

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CannaTech

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

I spoke to activist Angela Prusa about cannabis in Namibia and recent government efforts to suppress cannabis advocacy. She is a mother, activist, artist and NADA acupuncture practitioner focused on developing substance abuse and post-trauma treatment programs for communities in need.

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CannaTech

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

I spoke to activist Angela Prusa about cannabis in Namibia and recent government efforts to suppress cannabis advocacy. She is a mother, activist, artist and NADA acupuncture practitioner focused on developing substance abuse and post-trauma treatment programs for communities in need.

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