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WSU researchers team with Puyallup tribe on medicinal cannabis research

Cannabis Chronicles

McDonell said he was approached by the tribe to work with them following a presentation at an addiction conference. While there are methods available for collecting that data, including a smartphone app called “Releaf,” there are still patients who are wary of sharing information, even anonymously, due to federal laws, she said.

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Article: California Poised to Empower Charter Banks to Bank Cannabis Money (SB 51)

Cannabis Law Report

The California legislature is currently considering a first-of-its kind urgency bill, SB 51, the “Cannabis Limited Charter Banking and Credit Union Law.” The law would empower privately insured charter banks and credit unions to be licensed as “cannabis depository institutions”, or “CDIs”, to bank California cannabis money.

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Article: Recap: Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Cannabis Banking

Cannabis Law Report

With this federal classification, the cannabis industry is isolated from banking and, in many cases, reduced to a cash-only venture. This business model inherently creates several issues, such as higher rate of theft, difficulty assessing and collecting taxes properly, and allowing bad actors to pose as legitimate.

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Nevada NORML: A Year in Review

NORML

We certainly didn’t expect the opportunity to protest Jeff Sessions alongside Congresswoman Dina Titus and State Senators Aaron Ford & Tick Segerblom at the Apothecary Shoppe Dispensary with every news outlet present, but it happened! June 2018: Collected 79 Candidate Surveys from across Nevada.

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“Surge” Robbers Target California Cannabis. …Special Report By Donnell Alexander

Cannabis Law Report

Packs of masked thieves presently trending across America’s brick-and-mortar landscape are hitting legal weed hard, casting a harsh light on how its cash-only status has made the profit-generating industry vulnerable. cannabis industry is of course locked out of American banking. Federally prohibited, the U.S.

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Jordan Zoot Responds To Jeff Daniels article on AB 286, “California Proposes Slashing Cannabis Taxes to Help Regulated Industry Compete With Black Market.”

Cannabis Law Report

California’s failure to carefully heed all of the admonitions of the Report of the Blue Ribbon Commission in its implementation of cannabis regulation is a far more pervasive cause of the present chaos than tax rates that are too high and a lack of banking. Underground cannabis businesses have managed for generations without banking.

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22 Staff Of The Gambia’s Drug Law Enforcement Agency Test Positive For Cannabis

Cannabis Law Report

At least twenty two (22) staff of Drug Law Enforcement Agency, The Gambia (DLEAG) has been reported for testing positive for the use of cannabis and this result was presented to the Board of the Agency who has decided suspending them for two months without salary and with a condition to subject them to retest at their own cost.

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