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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Voices Support For Decriminalizing Psychedelics

Cannabis Law Report

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called for decriminalizing the use of and research on psychedelics, as well as comprehensive marijuana legalization, in a video message played for a drug policy reform conference on Thursday. Read full report: [link].

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The Week in Weed: September 4, 2020

The Blunt Truth

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. Florida has legalized medical marijuana edibles. Evnen said the measure met all legal requirements, but he expected a legal challenge from cannabis opponents. Further bulletins as events warrant.

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AIMS v. Garland: A Disappointment for Psilocybin Advocates, but Progressive Policy May Still be on the Horizon

Cannabis Law Report

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed a petition for review of a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) response to an attorney’s letter seeking advice and guidance on how a physician could administer psilocybin to a terminally ill patient without incurring liability under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). By Allison Campbell.

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Bill Clinton 1992 I Smoked Weed But Didn’t Inhale – 2022 I Said CBD Sounds Good But My Media Team Doesn’t Want To It To Be Public Knowledge

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A representative of the Impact Forum told Marijuana Moment in an email that the event “is private and we do not issue transcripts, audio or video.”. “No Last week, at the Impact Forum event , the former president reportedly stressed the “need to have a national standard of the THC count of these products and what the tests show.”.

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And Here We Go Again! NASDAQ Article: Forget Cannabis: Psychedelic Medicine Is the Better Investing Opportunity

Cannabis Law Report

The global march toward cannabis legalization has seemingly awoken another long dormant area of scientific interest: psychedelics as medicine. In lockstep with the FDA’s more open-minded approach toward psychedelic medicine, Denver, Oakland, and Santa Cruz all decided to decriminalize magic mushrooms. Hundreds of other U.S.

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How Recent Government Legislation will Transform the American CBD Industry

The Joint Blog

While cannabis has been used for its therapeutic effects throughout history, it is only the events of the last century that forged the public’s negative attitudes towards cannabis-derived products. For a while, it looked as though the legalization of cannabis products was never going to be a possibility, at least until recently, that is.

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Highway Robbery Disguised by Badges: The Case of Empyreal Logistics

Veriheal

The allegation is that they illegally seized cash from legal cannabis dispensaries being transported by a company called Empyreal Logistics, and we’re not just talking about a few grand. An armored car from Empyreal Logistics was hauling $712,000 that came from legal, licensed, taxpaying dispensaries. Here’s the situation.