NORML

JANUARY 25, 2020

Licensed dispensaries are expected to be operational in Missouri by this spring. 2227) is bipartisan legislation that removes marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act, thus decriminalizing the substance at the federal level and enabling states to set their own policies. NH resident? VA resident? WA resident?

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Legislation Decriminalization Safety Cultivation 159

NORML

MARCH 1, 2019

Roers Jones, who sponsored the recently defeated decriminalization bill, is trying to get her language inserted as a part of separate legislation. Denver, Colorado’s marijuana social use law is here to stay, as the city council voted this week to remove the “sunset” provision which made it a temporary four year program.

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Legislation Compliance Compliance Hemp 170

NORML

MARCH 14, 2020

Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 165, to establish a medical marijuana access program for qualified patients with a physician’s recommendation to access medical marijuana from licensed retail outlets. Legislation is pending, House Bill 550, to expand the state’s marijuana decriminalization law. IA resident? MD resident?

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Legislation Access Patients THC 186

NORML

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

— Bills SB 175 and HB 461 would expand the qualifying conditions under New Hampshire’s medical marijuana program. — HB 335 would expand access to medical cannabis by allowing the Department of Health and Human Services to authorize additional dispensaries licenses in certain geographic areas of New Hampshire.

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Marijuana Legislation Hemp Patients 211

NORML

JUNE 7, 2019

“This would be a big deal in terms of changing our policies to follow states like Colorado, Washington, California, that we’ve seen move forward ending prohibition, not only stopping the arrests, as we’ve done significantly in Illinois with our decriminalization laws, but to open up the marketplace.”

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Decriminalization Patients Legislation Law 119

NORML

MARCH 22, 2019

And Steelton Borough, Pennsylvania passed an ordinance to decriminalize up to 30 grams of cannabis possession. 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. CA resident?

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Legislation Hemp Patients Compliance 135

Cannabis Law Report

JULY 13, 2021

States across the country are choosing to decriminalize and/or legalize marijuana, and in November 2020, Arizona voters did, too. Selling marijuana, marijuana plants, or marijuana-related products (like edibles) outside of a licensed dispensary. You Can Expunge Your Marijuana Convictions in AZ Starting July 12, 2021. March 2, 2021.

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Recreational Cultivation Marijuana Decriminalization 105

Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 24, 2022

Part of the reason for this explosive growth is that many of those who left their jobs in retail and restaurants during the “Great Resignation” are flocking to dispensaries for better benefits and opportunities. Even in states that have decriminalized cannabis, racial disparities in arrests have persisted.

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Legislation Cannabis Conditions Programs 52

NORML

MARCH 15, 2019

At a more local level, the Cocoa Beach, Florida city council voted 3-2 in favor of a proposal to decriminalize up to 20 grams of cannabis possession. Click here to email your lawmakers in support of compassionate care programs. Members of Minnesota’s Senate Judiciary Committee defeated a legalization bill this week. AR resident?

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Legislation Hemp Compliance Compliance 144

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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Legislation Decriminalization Hemp Patients 165

NORML

APRIL 5, 2019

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) of New Mexico signed cannabis decriminalization legislation into law. An Arkansas House committee defeated a decriminalization bill this week to send it to study. Click here to email your lawmakers in support of compassionate care programs. CA resident? HI resident? Update : H.122 ID resident?

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Legislation Banking Hemp Compliance 187

Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 25, 2022

For example, in Texas, a state which continues to resist the decriminalization and regulation of marijuana, possessing two ounces or less of marijuana is punishable by up to 180 days in jail and a $2,000 fine. A Tale of Two States.

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Cannabis Programs Decriminalization Banking 52

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. Amber is a veteran of the United States Coast Guard. She is also co-founder and Chair of the Board of Supernova Women.

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Research and Development Media Pets Medicine 99

NORML

JANUARY 2, 2019

California NORML Supports Legislation to Protect Cannabis Compassion Programs. These programs are now threatened by Prop. Grower Advocacy Council and the Mass. Patient Advocacy Alliance to Host Second Annual Harvest Cup. “We Illinois currently has no black-owned medical dispensaries or cultivation centers.

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Advocacy Decriminalization Legislation Cultivation 129

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? AZ resident?

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Legislation Compliance Compliance Hemp 145

NORML

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The proposed changes: Expands the pool of medical professionals who are eligible to recommend medical cannabis by permitting physician assistants to issue recommendations to their patients; Allows licensed dispensaries to possess up to two additional manufacturing or processing facilities separate from their production facilities; and.

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Legislation Decriminalization Patients Access 173

Veriheal

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The state’s leading physician advocacy group, the Vermont Medical Society , initially issued the rejected recommendations to the Cannabis Control Board. However, qualifying patients were forced to wait until 2013 to access the state’s licensed dispensaries for their medicine. Vermont Lawmakers Keen to Decriminalize Drug Possession.

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THC Decriminalization Cannabis Concentrates 96

NORML

JULY 3, 2019

“A local marijuana advocacy group in Rochester, NORML, and other community groups released a report that found Monroe County had the fifth-highest arrest rates for low-level marijuana-related offenses in the state, outside of New York City.” “A dispensary is needed for anyone who can’t grow their own.

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Patients Advocacy Dispensary Access 129

Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Knowing Your Rights , provided by the national medical cannabis advocacy organization Americans for Safe Access, admonishes current cannabis consumers: Medical cannabis patients and their providers are vulnerable to federal and state raids, arrest, prosecution, and incarceration. PERSONAL RIGHTS. ” EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS.

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Cannabis Access Patients Legalization 45

Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The law sets aside 50% of cannabis licenses for cultivators, processors, distributors and dispensaries, aimed at minority applicants, women, distressed farmers and veterans. A report by the Nassau County Comptroller found that white female business owners were the biggest benefactor of the MWBE program in that county.

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Business Decriminalization Access Legislation 52

NORML

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

” Cooperatives and gifting would be banned in the medical marijuana program. In June, 2018, the Rhode Island General Assembly approved a state budget that includes a proposal to increase the fee medical marijuana dispensaries pay annually for licenses from $5,000 to $250,000. Corporate weed.

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Legalization Marijuana Vaping Retail 153

Cannabis Law Report

MAY 13, 2019

Riana Durrett, executive director of the Nevada Dispensary Association, called the process arduous and said approval often took a month. Pilot program for banking. I think the pilot program at the treasurer’s office doing this could be positive, could go well, but it has to be done at the federal level,” she said.

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Legislation Banking Consumption Conditions 58

Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 4, 2021

Healing Advocacy Fund. Sam is the Executive Director of the Healing Advocacy Fund, which is the nonprofit organization supporting the implementation of Measure 109 in Oregon. Mr. Bartch’s entrepreneurial career took off in 2009 when he co-founded AudioTranscriptionist.com and founded the Denver based dispensary, Doctors Orders.

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Research and Development Medicine Treatment Pharmaceutical 51

NORML

JUNE 8, 2019

Decriminalization isn’t really being entertained. The decade-old medical cannabis program will also be taken away from the NJ Department of Health, itself managed by Governor Phil Murphy’s appointees. Legalization is on hold. It seemed like a political one-two-punch. Phil Murphy was elected in 2016.

Marijuana 199

Marijuana Legalization Treatment Programs 199

SpeedWeed

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Part of the state’s decriminalization bill signed by Democratic Gov. The next thing that comes is conference,” said Chelsea Wise, founder of advocacy group Marijuana Justice, in a phone interview with Cannabis Business Times and Cannabis Dispensary. What’s happened so far? And that’s where things get tricky.

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Legalization Advocacy Legislation Decriminalization 40

NORML

APRIL 2, 2019

While serving as mayor of Burlington, Vermont in the 1980’s, he called for decriminalizing drug possession and treating substance abuse as a public health issue. States are moving forward on decriminalization and legalization. Summary: Senator Sanders has a long history of supporting reforming our nation’s drug policy.

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Marijuana Legislation Policy Legalization 278

WeedAdvisor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

This will certainly open up a world of opportunity, safety and convenience to beleaguered dispensaries everywhere. We need decriminalization at the federal level, criminal justice reform, and investment in opportunity for minority & women-owned small businesses.”. According to Marijuana Moment , Schumer is not alone.

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Banking Advocacy Legislation Dispensary 49

NORML

AUGUST 26, 2019

So, it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that Virginia didn’t launch a medical marijuana program until 2015, nearly two decades after California. And it took extensive, concerted efforts from marijuana law reform organizations like NORML to negotiate with Virginia’s Republican Party to get the program finally running.

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Marijuana Legalization Programs Oil 213

SpeedWeed

MARCH 2, 2021

New Mexico’s Democrat-controlled House and Senate has until March 20 to choose between five adult-use bills, which include four initiatives outlining the framework for the new program and a Republican-sponsored bill that takes aim at the illicit market. Hawaii Dispensaries Can Now Serve Out-of-State Cannabis Patients.

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Legalization Recreational Legislation Cannabis 52

Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

House Panel Approves Cannabis Tax, Decriminalization Bill. The House Judiciary Committee cleared legislation Wednesday that would decriminalize cannabis and allow a 5% federal excise tax to be imposed on cannabis products. Cannabis Social Equity Programs Are Fundamentally Flawed. November 20, 2019. November 20, 2019.

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Law Vaping Research and Development Legislation 58