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One Signature Could Remove Marijuana From Schedule I Tomorrow

Canna Law Blog

drug policy with its international treaty obligations—specifically, the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (Single Convention). Such purposes must, however, ensure the availability of cannabis (not referenced specifically, but included in the definition of “drugs”) to patients for relief from pain and suffering. No act of Congress.

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Intoxicating Hemp Swindle

Project CBD

There’s also THCP, THCO, HHC, and others that can’t be made from CBD starter material and thus are outside the legal definition of “hemp.” AB 45 also instated a definition of Total THC, adding all intoxicating cannabinoids to the sum not just Delta-9. If the Total THC in a given product exceeds the 0.3%

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Congress Advances Legislation to the President Amending Clinical Cannabis Research Rules

NORML

“While the significance of Congress passing the first stand-alone cannabis policy reform bill should not be overlooked, in truth, we don’t need more research to know definitively that prohibition is a misguided and disastrous policy.".

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CPD revises ‘Investigatory Stops’ and ‘Pat Down’ rules for cannabis

Illinois News Joint

Chicago Police Department (CPD) officials recently agreed to revise new rules for investigatory stops, protective pat downs, and other searches that also included policy amendments for Illinois’ conflicting, and often confusing, “sufficient probable cause” laws dealing with burnt and raw cannabis odor.

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Norway: Drug Policy, Punishment & Human Rights Document to the Court 22-01-2022

Cannabis Law Report

Remember last year when Norway’s Alliance For Rights Orientated Drugs Policies challenged existing laws by holding a small protest outside the country’s central police station offering the sale of cannabis. Norway: AROD (Alliance For Rights Orientated Drugs Policies) Holds Action Outside Oslo’s Main Police Station.

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NCIA Policy Report: The Medicine of Cannabis: An Overview for Medical Professionals and Policymakers

Cannabis Law Report

Prepared by NCIA’s Policy Council. federal government continues to classify cannabis as a Schedule I Controlled Substance, by definition meaning it has no accepted medical use and is unsafe to use even under medical supervision. cannabis policy are needed, particularly at the federal level. Download at [link].

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Rest in Peace Mark Kleiman, Giant of Cannabis Policy

Canna Law Blog

Kleiman was probably the most influential scholar on cannabis policy. If we were to try to pick just one major theme in Kleiman’s scholarship, it would probably be that the lack of a coherent national policy on cannabis legalization is bad for everybody. Kleiman left at a very interesting time for cannabis policy in the United States.

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