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The Week in Weed: August 28, 2020

The Blunt Truth

Pennsylvania’s governor is supporting cannabis legalization. Vermont is considering expungement and decriminalization. The DEA has a new hemp rule. Senator McConnell is promoting hemp face masks. Governor John Fetterman’s full-throated support for cannabis legalization. dea hemp rule.

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DEA Seizes 4M Marijuana Plants, Less Arrests in ’19

CannaMD

Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) made far fewer cannabis-related arrests in 2019 than in previous years. At the same time, however, the number of illegal cannabis plants seized by the agency spiked. Let’s take a closer look at what DEA data reveals. Cannabis Users Left Alone. Illicit Grow Ops Targeted.

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The Year in Weed: 2020 Edition

The Blunt Truth

Welcome back to The Year In Weed, our annual roundup of cannabis-related stories. High hopes characterized January , when it looked as if both New York and New Mexic o would legalize adult-use cannabis this year. Ideas ranged from legalization on day one (Sanders) to decriminalization and expungement (Bloomberg).

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Deschedule Cannabis, Don’t Reschedule It

Canna Law Blog

His announcement suggests that the federal government may reschedule cannabis or even deschedule cannabis. Rescheduling cannabis is a bad idea, as I explain below. If the government wants to help, the best thing it can do is to deschedule cannabis. To back up a bit here, President Biden has not been good on cannabis.

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Cannabis regulations in Indiana

The Cannigma

Indiana does not have a legal medical or adult-use cannabis program. A bill introduced in January 2022 to legalize cannabis failed , but the state is exploring regulating and decriminalizing delta-9 products and restricting delta-8 products in the 2022 fall session. Indiana still has harsh cannabis laws. CBD regulations.

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Grading the Presidential Candidates on Cannabis: Joe Biden

Canna Law Blog

In each presidential election cycle, the Canna Law Blog runs a classy series of posts grading the candidates as to their positions on cannabis. Biden was the only viable Democratic candidate who opposed cannabis legalization in 2020. Biden’s positions on cannabis today Things have changed a bit in the past quadrennium.

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Beard Brothers Newsletter Provides Most Onpoint Analysis Of Cannabis Opportunity Act We’ve Yet Read

Cannabis Law Report

On July 14th Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced a comprehensive piece of federal cannabis decriminalization that will likely see a full Senate vote sometime around September of this year…maybe. That’s great. There was a fear they would just bump it down to a lower schedule which would be a nightmare.

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