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Weekly Legislative Roundup 1/4/19

NORML

Steve Cohen (D-TN) and Don Young (R-AK) re-introduced the Compassionate Access, Research Expansion and Respect States (CARERS) Act, which protects those engaged in state-lawful medical marijuana programs from federal prosecution. MA resident? Click here to email your lawmakers in support of consumer employment protections.

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Guest Post: Is CBD Legal? Federal & State Laws [2019]

Cannabis Law Report

In order to legally posses CBD in Alabama , you must be in accordance to Leni’s Law which states you must be diagnosed with a debilitating medical condition and be undergoing treatment or you are part of a state-sponsored clinical trial. You can find the list of medical conditions here.

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Weekly Legislative Roundup 1/18/19

NORML

House lawmakers introduced The Medical Cannabis Research Act of 2019 (HR 601), to facilitate federally-approved clinical trials involving cannabis. At the state level, patients in Ohio and Oklahoma now have access to medical cannabis, as sales began in both states this week. Additionally, a bipartisan coalition of U.S.

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Federal Commission Urges Cannabis and Psychedelics Research For Vets

Veriheal

federal government’s policies have blocked externally valid, randomized clinical trials on the effects of cannabis,” the report says. The research requires approval from multiple government agencies, including some with stated opposition to any therapeutic uses of cannabis.”. Veterans across the U.S.

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The Ketamine Clinic Craze: Legalities and Possibilities

Canna Law Blog

Similar to ketamine, psilocybin has shown great promise in clinical trials for helping to effectively treat depression and PTSD (and we’ve written about psilocybin several times on this blog, including here and here ). Third, multiple existing and state laws and regulations will apply to a ketamine clinic.

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Ohio Gives Another Shot at Expanding Qualifying Conditions

Veriheal

Advocates have tried to make this happen in the past partitioning for the addition of these three conditions, but they were ultimately denied by the state’s medical review board. In regard to the petition to add these three conditions to state law, advocates must be very careful.

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Today’s Answer of the Day

TheAnswerPage

According to the Controlled Substances Act, is it legal to transport marijuana across state lines from one medical marijuana legal state to another medical marijuana legal state? ” See Answer. See Answer.