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Netherlands to Launch Cannabis Pilot Program

Cannabis Life Network

The government of the Netherlands will launch a cannabis pilot program with the goal of full-scale legalization. The Dutch decriminalized cannabis in 1972, making possessing an ounce or less a misdemeanour. Wait, you might ask, doesn’t the country with Amsterdam cafes already have legal cannabis? Technically, no.

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U.S. Long Jumper Gets Stripped of Title After Testing Positive for THC

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long jumper, was stripped of the national indoor title she obtained in February after testing positive for THC. Davis-Woodhall tested positive for THC , a psychoactive chemical found in cannabis, marijuana, and hashish. However, because she had tested positive for THC, she lost her title. Tara Davis-Woodhall, a 23-year-old U.S.

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Cannabis laws in Lithuania

The Cannigma

Medical cannabis has been legal in Lithuania in 2018 , but the program is limited and has run into issues. The country was the last EU member to allow industrial hemp in 2013 but created a medical program in 2018. Lithuania’s medical marijuana program. Lithuania has had a medical marijuana program since 201 8.

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Ohio Governor Signs Bill Decriminalizing Hemp

The Joint Blog

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s has signed into law legislation that decriminalizes hemp, the non-psychoactive cousin of marijuana. The Associated Press reports that the agency will create and administer a new hemp program in the state. or less of THC to qualify under the new law. THC will still remain illegal.

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Weekly Legislative Roundup 2/22/20

NORML

2227) is bipartisan legislation that removes marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act, thus decriminalizing the substance at the federal level and enabling states to set their own policies. Legislation is pending, House Bill 3960, to repeal the state’s zero tolerance per se traffic safety ban for THC and its metabolites.

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Pennsylvania: Marijuana possession arrests decline statewide

NORML

” “This is likely the result of two major policy changes: More than twenty decriminalization or penalty downgrade ordinances passed by city councils across the Commonwealth, and approximately a quarter of a million registered medical marijuana patients,” said Goldstein. Most recently, in January, Norristown joined the list.

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Cannabis laws in Georgia

The Cannigma

There is no adult-use market, thought several cities have decriminalized possession. Georgia has a limited medical program but doesn’t consider itself a “medical marijuana” state as growing, possessing, or smoking any form of the plant is still illegal. Several cities have decriminalized cannabis possession, but this is not statewide.

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