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Federal vs. State Approaches to Cannabis: Recent DEA Data Shows Increase In Enforcement While States Move Toward Decriminalization and Legalization

The Blunt Truth

According to recent data from the Drug Enforcement Administration , however, in 2021, federal law enforcement agents seized over 5.5 million marijuana plants and conducted more than 6,600 marijuana related arrests. That’s 20 percent more seizures and 25 percent more arrests than those made the previous year.

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Ketamine Is Removed from California Decrim Bill

Cannabis Law Report

The California legislation that would decriminalize some psychedelic substances under state law, Senate Bill 519, was approved in a 5-3 vote by the State Assembly’s Public Safety Committee in a June 29th hearing. Decriminalizing psychedelics is one important step in that direction. They write. Read more at.

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The Ketamine Clinic Craze: Legalities and Possibilities

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Recently, the decriminalization of psilocybin (by various cities) has been in the news as an emerging medicine. The FDA doesn’t have any regulations on point for the control and oversight of ketamine clinics when it comes to infusion therapy and the states don’t really either.

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Can the Biden Administration Deschedule Cannabis?

Cannabis Law Report

This would, as the letter to Garland says, “decriminalize” marijuana. For the purpose of the CSA, the Attorney General delegates its power to the DEA and the HHS delegates its power to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). the move and vowed to uphold California state law with regards to marijuana. criticized ?the

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Weed and Worry — The Immigration Consequences of Engaging in the Cannabis Trade

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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. and] help ensure DEA can evaluate the applications under the applicable legal standard and conform the program to relevant laws.”.

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Weed and Worry — The Immigration Consequences of Engaging in the Cannabis Trade

Cannabis Law Report

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. By Angelo A. Paparelli on October 22, 2019. The legal cannabis business is spreading like weeds.

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Lighting Up Florida Medical Marijuana People: Rear Battalion, Part 9

Cannabis Law Report

NORML Outreach Director Kevin Mahmalji reported that one Florida Municipality Is Considering Marijuana Decriminalization Measure. The cap on dispensaries, now set at 35 for each operator, was included in a 2017 state law carrying out a constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana in Florida.