MassRoots

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Now that more than half of the states in the nation have legalized cannabis for either medicinal or recreational purposes, those state-legal businesses deserve to be able to operate as such. As long as individuals and businesses are operating under state law, this proposal would remove the risk of federal criminal penalties.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 20, 2019

The banks actions will mean somebody at the FDIC will have to make some serious decisions that could lead to a number of ramifications for the cannabis sector not only in CA but also nationwide. A small California bank’s merger application could force the FDIC to take a firmer stand on marijuana banking.

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NORML

MARCH 22, 2019

House Financial Services Committee has scheduled to convene a markup on The Safe Banking Act, HR 1595 on Tuesday, March 26th. Activists in Oregon have filed a 2020 ballot initiative with the Secretary of State that, if approved, would allow social cannabis consumption sites and protect consumers from employment discrimination.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 31, 2019

In total, 34 states, the District of Columbia and various U.S. Eleven states have allowed for legal adult and medicinal use of cannabis in a regulated program. Twenty-three states have a comprehensive medical marijuana program. Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Cannabis Banking. Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Sen.

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NORML

JUNE 28, 2019

Click here to email your lawmakers in support of banking access. Under state law, adults face civil penalties for minor marijuana possession offenses. Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 51, to assist financial institutions in safely conducting transactions with licensed cannabis businesses. CA resident? PA resident?

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Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 13, 2019

So many proposed leases reviewed by our California cannabis attorneys completely miss the fact that before a tenant can secure a state license they must first secure local authorization from their city or county under the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (“MAUCRSA”). And in the City of L.A.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 26, 2021

Our banking practice, through broker-dealer Bradley Woods & Co. Marijuana remains illegal under federal law. The federal government does not recognize marijuana to have any medicinal value. Marijuana cultivation, possession, consumption, sales, and distribution are illegal under federal laws and also certain state laws.

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NORML

APRIL 20, 2019

Click here to email your lawmakers in support of banking access. The measure would protect registered medical cannabis patients from employment discrimination by prohibiting employers from arbitrarily discriminating against employees who legally consume medical cannabis off-the-job in accordance with state law. CA resident?

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Veriheal

JULY 22, 2020

Whether veterans live in a state with a legal cannabis market or not has nothing to do with how medicine is obtained. Despite 33 states having legal, medical cannabis programs in the United States, the majority of veterans who utilize cannabis obtain it from the illicit and unregulated market. . The Federal Fog.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 7, 2021

MJXL is designed to seek daily leveraged investment results, before fees and expenses, of two times (2x) or 200% the performance of the Prime Alternative Harvest Index, providing investors access to the global cannabis ecosystem and benefitting directly from widespread medicinal and recreational legalization initiatives. About ETFMG.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 24, 2019

Let’s begin with the following: STATES Act Becomes Law. The STATES Act passes in Congress, the President signs it and it becomes law which means that in the states where cannabis is legal : Banking system becomes available to cannabis businesses. See The Murky Part of the STATES Act: Tribal Rights ].

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 24, 2019

BANKING: The growth? The Republican-controlled US Senate hosted a hearing on cannabis banking on July 23, 2019. In Who’s Now Lobbying on the SAFE Banking Act? Financial institutions, even in states where cannabis is legal, are usually hesitant to serve cannabis businesses while cannabis remains illegal at the federal level.”

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The Blunt Truth

OCTOBER 22, 2019

As several states and foreign countries have enacted laws decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana for medicinal or recreational use, a fresh rush of reefer madness has overtaken the business world. 1200 , The SAFE Banking Act, awaits a vote. The legal cannabis business is spreading like weeds. 4390 and S.

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Nature's Way Medicine

MARCH 5, 2021

The IRS commissioner Charles Rettig told the House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee that he would prefer if state-legal marijuana businesses would pay taxes electronically. Right now the businesses are unable to use banks and are paying cash to the federal government.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 26, 2020

Yet, despite the economic and political progress that has been made in states around the country, marijuana is still defined by federal law as a Schedule I substance with no medicinal value and a high potential for abuse. even if the business is legal under local or state law.”.

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Due mainly to legal reforms at the state level, 2019 legal cannabis sales are expected to generate over $10 billion in revenue. Products ranging from buds, oils, and tinctures are increasingly being used medicinally to treat chronic pain, cancer, terminal illness, and some stress-related mental disorders. Bankruptcy and the CSA.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The law took effect August 1, 2021. House Bill 1090 : State law previously permitted adults to legally possess up to one ounce of either marijuana flowers or concentrates for recreational purposes without penalty. The law will take effect in January 2022. The law took effect on May 6, 2021. EXPUNGEMENT. California.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 11, 2022

The Maine law that permits the use of medical marijuana “does not override the federal requirements for conditions of pretrial release — where federal law and state law provide contradictory directives, federal law controls,” the order states. Count Five: Bank Fraud (18 U.S.C.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The SHIP Act, filed on September 14, 2022, seeks to also provide authority for “small cultivators of marijuana and small cultivators of marijuana products” to ship marijuana in the mail directly to consumers located in California or another state where the possession of marijuana or the marijuana product is lawful by that individual.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 22, 2019

As several states and foreign countries have enacted laws decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana for medicinal or recreational use, a fresh rush of reefer madness has overtaken the business world. 1200 , The SAFE Banking Act, awaits a vote. Paparelli on October 22, 2019. 4390 and S.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 6, 2021

MJIN is designed to seek daily leveraged investment results, before fees and expenses, of two times the inverse (-2x) (or opposite) of the performance of the Prime Alternative Harvest Index, providing investors access to the global cannabis ecosystem and benefitting directly from widespread medicinal and recreational legalization initiatives.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 26, 2022

Some, such as Colorado State University-Pueblo, offer undergraduate degrees in the science of cannabis. Colleges offering these programs would also be required to comply with any state laws regulating the use of hemp.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 8, 2019

Whilst English law presumes that English criminal statutes do not extend to acts wholly undertaken outside the U.K., to be paid into his Spanish bank account and allowed the fraudsters to withdraw money from that account. subject to the restriction that a significant part of the underlying criminality must have taken place in the U.K.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 12, 2021

She brings 20 years of experience in the financial industry, specifically 10 years in banking and underwriting. The Company, through several of its subsidiaries, is indirectly involved in the manufacture, possession, use, sale, and distribution of cannabis in the recreational and medicinal cannabis marketplace in the United States.

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Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

In fact, there’s not even a gubernatorial budget trailer bill catch all this year, which normally would accomplish some major and much needed legal changes to and technical fixes to the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (“MAUCRSA”). This Assembly Bill addresses cannabis banking on the state level.

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Nature's Way Medicine

APRIL 23, 2021

SAFE Banking Act Approved in Congress. Even bigger news comes in the form of the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, which has been approved by the House of Representatives for the fourth time. The SAFE Banking Act has been approved three times before and needs to be sent to the Senate for consideration. State Laws.

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Canna Law Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Enforcement (or lack thereof) I hit on California a lot for enforcement issues because that’s the state where my cannabis clients suffer the most. What I am saying (and have said before) is that the state has done a terrible job of going after “bad actor” licensees for basic and fundamental regulatory violations.

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

Financing: Because cannabis is still illegal at the federal level, most banks won’t provide loans to cannabis companies. Security: Due to its federal status, the cannabis industry is one of the few cash-only industries left in the United States. What’s the Big Takeaway?

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Canna Law Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Join Harris Bricken attorney, Vince Sliwoski as he provides forecasts for state cannabis programs. San Francisco Bank Attorneys Association – California Cannabis Law Update | Monday, December 6th at 12PM PST. Get your Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits for practicing attorneys during this event!

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The Cannigma

MARCH 12, 2021

There are no payment systems, there’s no banking and cannabis. You go back to kind of the 1800s, and this is with the germ theory of disease, and this is with trying to standardize and legitimize the practice of medicine. This is kind of what came to be used as the way that modern medicine is done.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 14, 2022

Momentum Builds in Senate for Passing SAFE Act – Bipartisan support in the Senate grows for passage of the SAFE Banking Act, which would facilitate banking access for cannabis companies. Multiple Republican and Democratic senators continue to oppose cannabis legalization.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

US Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) , chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, expressed interest in addressing banking issues facing cannabis businesses operating legally in their states. The SAFE Banking Act (H.R. The SAFE Banking Act (H.R.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 11, 2021

When people hear of ketamine clinics, they tend to think they’re dealing with an emerging psychedelic medicine in the health and wellness market. In turn, here are the top 6 questions we’ve been getting lately around ketamine clinics: Isn’t the regulation of ketamine clinics just like adult-use/medicinal cannabis businesses?

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Above The Law - Cannabis

JANUARY 22, 2018

With the beginning of California cannabis licensing under the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), there has been a lot of confusion and hearsay regarding how the new system will operate. Local approval is pretty much everything when it comes to getting a state license.

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The hearing marked the first time in decades that members have entertained debate regarding the need to end the federal criminalization of cannabis and deschedule it from the Controlled Substances Act, which would end federal prohibition and allow states to determine their own policies. Progress on the SAFE Banking Act. California.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 29, 2022

For those twenty-one and older, the CAOA recognizes state law as controlling the possession, production, or distribution of cannabis. Most industry experts do not expect CAOA to become law as currently drafted. Notably, the alternative legislation allegedly may not completely remove marijuana from the CSA, as CAOA does.

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Above The Law - Cannabis

AUGUST 21, 2017

215 (which is a terrible piece of law if you’re looking to be a real cannabis business) is that many self-proclaimed industry attorneys in and out of California abandoned any semblance of helping their clients comply with the corporations code, federal and state tax laws, and various basic transactional laws and standards.

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