NORML

JANUARY 7, 2020

Over the course of twelve months, the proud fighters of the Las Vegas chapter have taken cannabis advocacy, education and community to otherworldly levels through a variety of far-reaching ways. Tina showed the true power of Nevada NORML’s advocacy on a national level. National NORML Conference & Lobby Day.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 27, 2021

The evidence presented in this brief suggests that legalization of marijuana for medical or recreational use results in: 1. Patients substituting marijuana for other drugs, including opiates. Marijuana consumers substituting legitimate marijuana for illicit marijuana. Here’s the brief.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 30, 2019

The Democratic controlled legislature insisted that legalization would help minority communities.The measure creates a $30 million social equity loan program and lawmakers directed Pritzker to pardon people with past low-level marijuana convictions. Source: [link]. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. —

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NORML

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

” In a joint press release , Senators Sweeney and Scutari laid out their plans: “We are moving forward with a plan to seek voter approval to legalize adult use marijuana in New Jersey. .

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NORML

MARCH 19, 2019

Madeline Martinez is the executive director of Oregon NORML and the only Latina member of the board of directors of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). Summary of language: Tax Revenues: Redistribute recreational cannabis taxes in a way that promotes the social justice goals of cannabis legalization.

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 1, 2021

Washington DC lawmakers have two recreational marijuana legalization bills to consider after Mayor Muriel Bowser and City Council Chair Phil Mendelson introduced separate measures. Bowser’s bill does not give any preference to existing marijuana business in the District. Both bills allow for delivery licenses.

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WeedAdvisor

JUNE 21, 2019

While lawmakers, lobbyists and everyday proponents hoped to see recreational dispensaries open their doors, the legalization bill was ultimately stalled after it hit too many political roadblocks. According to ABC News , lawmakers finally voted to decriminalize marijuana after a marathon session that ended on June 21 st , just before 6:00 AM.

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SpeedWeed

AUGUST 9, 2021

Ohio attorney general Dave Yost has rejected an advocacy group’s proposal and signatures to legalize recreational cannabis. Attorney General Yost published a letter on August 5 , stating that the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol did not meet the necessary requirements for his approval. Ohio Still Has Hope .

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 20, 2021

New Mexico lawmakers postponed a Senate floor vote on a recreational marijuana legalization bill as the regular legislative session ended Saturday, but the measure may be headed to a special session. The alliance spearheaded the advocacy efforts for adult-use marijuana legalization in the state. View original article.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

California’s Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors in May banned trucks carrying 100 gallons or more of water from using roads leading to arid tracts where some 2,000 illegal marijuana grows were purportedly using millions of gallons of water daily.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Recreational marijuana became legal in Illinois last January. Their offers were revoked when drug tests came back positive for marijuana. Both of their drug tests were positive for marijuana. Finkle says Campanelli was against drug testing applicants after recreational marijuana was legalized in Illinois.

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Veriheal

DECEMBER 14, 2021

4 with the secretary of state’s office, the latest legalization effort comes courtesy of Arkansans for Marijuana Reform. In an interview with Marijuana Moment , Campaign Director Melissa Fults said: “This is the right thing to do. Filed on Thursday, Nov. I think it is a very good middle-of-the-road deal. Support From Other Campaigns.

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Veriheal

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In addition to numerous expansions to the state’s medical marijuana (MMJ) program, the state’s decriminalization of cannabis went into effect in August, beginning the reversal of decades of harm done by the war on drugs. ” Cannabis in Louisiana. Starting Aug.

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Veriheal

JANUARY 22, 2024

Maryland celebrates one year of recreational sales, “Little Amsterdam” pops up on the Texas-New Mexico border, and voters advocate to empower cannabis consumers in their Second Amendment right. Historically, as marijuana is still illegal on a federal level, cannabis users are generally not permitted to purchase a firearm.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 27, 2021

We study the effect of state recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) on workers’ compensation (WC) benefit receipt among adults 40-62 years. We find that WC receipt declines in response to RML adoption both in terms of the propensity to receive benefits and benefit amount.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 22, 2023

Since legalizing recreational marijuana, the state of Missouri has granted more than 15,000 expungements at the misdemeanor and felony levels for nonviolent marijuana offenses. That includes 65 in St. Louis City, 304 in St. Louis County, 55 in Jefferson County, and six in Franklin County.

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WeedAdvisor

JULY 3, 2019

With all the buzz going on as state after state legalizes recreational marijuana – or at least loosens restrictions – we never really questioned why most adults want to see the drug legalized. While its intoxicating effects are clearly its main appeal from a recreational standpoint, marijuana’s situation is much more complex.

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WeedAdvisor

OCTOBER 9, 2019

One thing alarmists love to say is that marijuana legalization will cause an increase in violent crimes, theft and other major offences. They then compared the crime rates in these two places with 21 states where marijuana is illegal recreationally and at least heavily restricted, if not banned, for medical use.

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The Blunt Truth

MAY 15, 2020

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. Maine made changes to their marijuana program. Missouri is having issues with their medical marijuana licensing. Missouri is having issues with their medical marijuana licensing. marijuana research.

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LifeCannMD

APRIL 28, 2025

This isn’t a story about recreational marijuana or getting high. Desperate for relief, he remembered something he’d heard about medical marijuana. By then, Canada had legalized medical marijuana, but that didn’t mean doctors were handing out prescriptions. Nothing helped. Then fate stepped in.

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Marijuana Seeds NL

JUNE 21, 2021

Now the majority of the United States have their own individual medical or recreational programs in place, and first-world countries like Canada have legalized weed federally. Currently, recreational use of cannabis is legal, federally, in the countries below. Especially as the plant’s medical benefits are exponentially being proven.

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NORML

JANUARY 31, 2019

Medical marijuana patients, renters, the poor, people of color and women are often the least likely to not have a safe legal space to consume legally purchased or possessed cannabis,” said Martinez. This is about equal rights because whenever you pick a certain group and treat them differently that is discrimination.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 8, 2021

As well as to make legislation allowing the smoking of crude cannabis sativa plant (also known as marijuana, weed, Mary Jane, pot, reefers, ganja, joint, and grass) for medical reasons (so-called “medical marijuana”). Colorado earned more than $302 million in medicinal and recreational cannabis fees and taxes in 2019.

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NORML

MAY 20, 2019

Whereas a marijuana-positive drug test from an applicant would likely mean more immediate professional rejection than showing up to an interview in a neon bro tank and American flag Chubbies, AB 132 would provide cannabis users with a rebuttal if a pre-employment drug test is failed.

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NORML

JULY 3, 2019

Every day NORML Chapters from around the country invest countless hours in advocating for meaningful marijuana law reforms on the local, state and federal level! Rochester NORML Publishes Report to Highlight Arrest Rates for Marijuana Offenses. Below is a brief rundown of some of their most recent accomplishments.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 30, 2021

A citizens’ association called the Initiative to Change the Cannabis Legislation, IRKA, says that at least 20 of its members have been given jail sentences for using cannabis for medical purposes, and thousands more have been convicted of possession of a small amount of the plant for personal recreational use.

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Medical Marijuana Program Connection

APRIL 26, 2024

Over a week after a group of North Dakotans filed a 2024 ballot measure petition to legalize recreational cannabis, the state’s top election official gave the green light for signature gathering to begin, reported ABC News. The New Economic Frontier, a cannabis advocacy committee behind the push, needs to garner. Read More

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MMJ Recs

APRIL 19, 2024

The use of medical marijuana in Iowa has been a topic of significant debate and change in recent years. From its prohibition to the gradual legalization and implementation of medical cannabis programs, the landscape of marijuana use for medical purposes has shifted dramatically.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 13, 2021

Petitions to expunge certain marijuana offenses can be submitted to superior courts starting today – thanks to the voter-approved Prop 207. You Can Expunge Your Marijuana Convictions in AZ Starting July 12, 2021. Recreational marijuana is now legal in the state for persons over the age of 21. ounces or less of marijuana.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Two men started legal marijuana businesses in Oklahoma, but were caught with pot in North Texas. Don Pirtle and Justin Machacek both learned the hard way about the nation’s capricious patchwork of marijuana laws in which Texas, where marijuana is illegal, is surrounded by states that have legalized it for medical treatment.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP (DHC), a top New York-based commercial law and government relations firm, has announced the formation of a Cannabis Practice Group, which will help clients navigate the regulations around newly legalized adult recreational marijuana in New York State.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 9, 2022

Cannabis advocates pushed back Tuesday on an attempt by the state legislature to prohibit gifting of the plant in an effort to prevent sellers from circumventing Connecticut’s budding recreational retail industry. . Marijuana gifting fair Connecticut?’”. What would I Google? Wynne laughed and offered to send Kissel details.

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 27, 2021

You are here: Home / Policy & Legal / Virginia / Virginia House Democrats back legalization this summer of small amounts of marijuana; Northam supportive. Ralph Northam , Legal Marijuana , marijuana legalization , marijuana possession , recreational marijuana , Virginia Democrats , virginia marijuana.

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 13, 2021

The major stakeholders pushing Congress to enact sweeping federal marijuana reform just got bigger with the formation of a new band of businesses and industry experts who believe legalization is a foregone conclusion and that the real prize will be shaping a nationwide MJ regulatory framework. John Schroyer. View original article.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 29, 2021

Vicente Sederberg LLP (VS) announced Tuesday it has formed an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practice aimed at helping the burgeoning marijuana and hemp industries become leaders in sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). and around the world.

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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. Vermont has already introduced a potency cap for its looming recreational cannabis legalization market, with flower capped at 30% and THC and concentrates capped at 60%.

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Canna Law Blog

JULY 23, 2019

He was a strong opponent of the War on Drugs going back to the early 1980s, yet he also opposed a full commercial model for marijuana legalization. Instead, he argued for a middle ground that would end prohibition and mass incarceration, while preventing the rise of Big Marijuana and its potentially detrimental public health consequences.

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