MMJ Recs

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This guide aims to provide an in-depth exploration of medical marijuana laws in the USA, offering insights into the regulations, the legal status of medical marijuana, the differences between federal and state laws, patient rights, dispensary regulations, and much more.

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Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

According to the memo, Washington is following the lead of many other states, most notably California , in prohibiting the use of hemp-derived CBD (“Hemp-CBD”) in foods and beverages. Washington is essentially implementing the Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) policy on Hemp-CBD as a food ingredient.

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Canna Law Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2019

which Nebraska’s legislature passed last year to allow for hemp cultivation under state law. Last year, on November 16, 2018, Nebraska’s Attorney General issued an Opinion on CBD stating that CBD products remained illegal, despite the then-pending 2018 Farm Bill. 2-501 et seq.), ” NE St. §

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In the midst of this uncertainty, we have been stressing to our clients the importance of insurance coverage for your business (see Anatomy of a Cannabis Insurance Policy Part 1: The Basics )– especially insurance that covers your liability for your marijuana- and hemp-derived products. Breach of warranty. Strict liability.

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Therefore, it is easy to register for things that fit squarely within the USPTO specifications, like retail services. As we’ve written before, it is not permissible to use an organic designation on cannabis products unless that designation is pursuant to state law or pursuant to a private certification, since the U.S.

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Canna Law Blog

JANUARY 16, 2020

Unfortunately, that does not mean that sellers of these types of products should just wing it, given the proliferation of CBD online and in retail stores. These guidelines are about as robust as can be, and any retailer would be taking a huge risk by selling products that do not align with Shopify’s guidelines.

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Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 6, 2019

In Indiana, a group of retailers who sell CBD products filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Indiana to declare Indiana’s law making it illegal to manufacture, finance, deliver, or possess “smokable hemp” under state law.

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The Joint Blog

MAY 22, 2019

The Associated Press is reporting that California is quickly moving forward with a plan to establish a system of banks to work with the marijuana industry which is legal under state law, but illegal under federal law. “This is as close as we can get until the federal government changes its policy,” said Sen.

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Canna Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2020

The manufacture, sale and marketing of non-flavored, nicotine or tobacco-free CBD vaping products, as well as other smokable hemp products , may nonetheless be banned under certain state laws.

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Marijuana Lawyer Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

The dispute over marijuana deliveries comes shortly after the regulation adopted by state bureau earlier this year, holding that businesses licensed by the state have permission to deliver marijuana – even in municipalities that have expressly banned the operation of marijuana retail locations. Call us at 714-937-2050.

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SpeedWeed

JUNE 3, 2021

Online retail powerhouse Amazon announced on Tuesday that it would support efforts to legalize marijuana at the federal level and would no longer test applicants for most U.S. The policy changes were announced in a blog post from Amazon CEO Dave Clark that was published by the company on June 1. jobs for cannabis use.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The guide provides a holistic review of the current cannabis laws in every state including the District of Columbia, from favorable to cannabis businesses to most restrictive. In addition, the state has seen the expansion of licenses for marijuana retail stores and craft growers. Barry Weisz.

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Connor & Connor PLLC

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Across the country, retail stores and medical dispensaries are seeing large revenues, despite the even larger burden of regulations and the persistent federal prohibition of the practice. Eleven states, as well as the District of Columbia, now allow for recreational or adult-use possession as well. 1] Nevada Administrative Code 453D.165

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Greenspoon Marder Cannabis Law Group Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Due to the current state laws regarding cannabis and the FDA’s position on hemp-infused food products, no infused dishes will be served. Alaska was the first state to legalize social consumption at the state level last March. The café will offer a range of flowers, vapes, edibles, concentrates and extracts.

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The Joint Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

While physical shops and dispensaries sell them, online retail is also fast-growing by the minute. Is CBD Legal in the United States? Generally speaking, CBD oil is legal in the United States with a certain catch. Local hemp companies are highly encouraged to source their raw plant materials from farms in the state-side.

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The Joint Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Legal marijuana sales have officially begun in Maine, but according to the Associated Press the state is already experiencing a cannabis shortage. According tot he AP, retailers blame the pandemic and a limited number of licensed manufacturers for reducing the variety of products available on Friday. As noted by the AP.

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The Joint Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

But those same retailers must keep enough product on hand to supply people certified as patients under medical marijuana laws. “The first round of applications is limited to existing medical marijuana retailers, and about 30 are newly licensed to sell recreational products. More could be approved before January.”

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SpeedWeed

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The facility, which has a “zero tolerance” policy on “drug use” (except alcohol and pharmaceuticals) kicked Flickner to the curb in the freezing cold despite the fact that he uses a wheelchair and has a doctor’s recommendation to consume medical cannabis per state law. RELATED STORY.

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Canna Law Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

But California is a prime example of failed policy which legislators and regulators seem intent on making worse. California’s cannabis tax scheme was destined to fail from the start From inception, California decided to tax cannabis at both ends by imposing a tax on cultivated plants, and an excise tax on retail.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

The NYSBA provided four reasons for its opinion: In light of the federal government’s continued decision not to prosecute state-legalized medical cannabis, attorneys are provided “cover” to practice cannabis law: “Inasmuch as 17 states, plus Washington, D.C., Blog: Canna Law Blog. Published at Lex Blog.

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In another sense, the Order is broader than anticipated: it requires OLCC and OHA to come up with emergency rules, legislative proposals and even an anti-vaping education campaign, while creating a Vaping Public Health Workgroup to presumably drive Oregon policy going forward. And they will have to. What should vape processors be doing?

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Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

The First Circuit’s decision effectively eliminates all residency requirements for becoming a cannabis licensee in the state. In 2020, the state issued policy guidance stating it would not enforce the residency requirement for cannabis licensees in the recreational marketplace. The history here was interesting.

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Canna Law Blog

MAY 12, 2020

Last October , Weedmaps, the well-known platform providing cannabis consumers with information related to cannabis products, online ordering, retail store and product listings, and consumer education, received a subpoena from the U.S. We cooperate with these requests as we do with all lawful inquiries.

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Canna Law Blog

JULY 7, 2023

It wouldn’t make economic sense for the state to create a class of licenses that are just glorified movers, so they decided to give distributors other jobs. They’d collect the excise tax from retailers. This activity has been a huge burden on the legal market and a stain on the state’s alleged enforcement policies.

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Canna Law Blog

JULY 5, 2020

Our attorneys track these developments in real-time on behalf of multiple clients, and we provide a 50-state matrix showing how states regulate hemp and hemp products. Several other states have gone in the opposite direction, tightly regulating the manufacture and sale of Hemp CBD. the liquid used in vape products).

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SpeedWeed

JULY 23, 2021

And now, there are mounting signs that the world’s largest online retailer is ready to put its ample financial resources behind the effort. having] reported meeting with Amazon officials in the past month to discuss federal marijuana policy.”. However, given where state laws are moving across the U.S.,

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Laws protecting patients and their providers vary from state to state and, in some cases, may vary from county to county. Many individuals choose to break outdated state laws that do not account for medical use or their access. LAW ENFORCEMENT RIGHTS.

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Canna Law Blog

APRIL 1, 2020

This is a “maybe” Certain states, like California (as of March 22 ), determined per their stay-at-home orders that medical and adult-use retailers (and the businesses that supply them) can stay open. Other states, like Massachusetts , decided that adult-use businesses are not so essential during this pandemic.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Five of them used an age verification form , which is in compliance with the FDA age requirements and state laws, where the customer has to upload a photo of a government ID, and the other required a signature on delivery of the package. Some samples were also purchased from retail stores (i.e. Photo: CBD Oracle.

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

law, but it also isn’t a supplement and it cannot be an ingredient in food and beverages for humans or pets without violating the Act. CBD liability for CBD retailers to date has taken the shape of enforcement letters from the FDA. These letters constitute one form of warning that can be issued under current Agency policy.

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SpeedWeed

JUNE 3, 2021

It sends shivers through cannabis retailers, too. However, given where state laws are moving across the U.S., When Amazon bought Whole Foods in 2017, trade publication Drync ran an article headlined, Did Amazon just kill liquor retail as we know it? Amazon has not killed liquor retail as we know it. It shouldn’t.

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Marijuana Lawyer Blog

JULY 22, 2019

The lauded legislation, known as the Blumenauer-McClintock amendment, would prohibit the Department of Justice from using federal funds to interfere with California state laws, or the laws in any state or district, legally permitting the regulated adult-use of cannabis. This becomes problematic to supply chains.

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