Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 12, 2021

Recent shifting attitudes towards the medical use of cannabis has seen legal access pathways established in many jurisdictions in North America, Europe and Australasia. Here we undertake an analysis of this policy issue based on a case study of the introduction of medicinal cannabis in Australia. Conclusion.

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Veriheal

JANUARY 24, 2024

Residents often vote for progressive policies and support movements like gay marriage or federal cannabis legalization, and the recent news coming out of the state demonstrates this further. Their combined medicinal and recreational sales for 2023 hit nearly $2 billion, with about $226 million of that attributed to medicinal marijuana.

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Veriheal

AUGUST 22, 2023

States legalizing recreational cannabis are seeing an unexpected and significant decrease in mental health treatment admissions. Unveiling these connections could reshape knowledge and understanding of public health implications and policy outcomes in this rapidly evolving field. However, he suggests two potential explanations.

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Veriheal

JANUARY 30, 2024

Although there have been many studies demonstrating the increasing support for federal cannabis legalization, there is a lack of research interviewing military members, veterans, and their families on this subject. They found that, regardless of veteran status, most people support federal cannabis legalization.

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Veriheal

JANUARY 12, 2023

The people of French Polynesia can now legally use medicinal cannabis following the local assembly’s approval of a consumption law. A total of 20 opposition members voted against French Polynesia’s medicinal cannabis law. French Polynesia’s Medicinal Cannabis Law May Be Challenged in France .

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Veriheal

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

states and the District of Columbia currently have legal cannabis, medical or recreational. Despite this massive shift in cannabis policy, however, a few states are still dragging their feet on cannabis legalization. To its credit, the state does seem to be making minor strides toward cannabis legalization lately.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Interesting read… There are new waters to navigate in the state of Connecticut—legalized recreational use of marijuana and the workplace. . Connecticut is the 19th state to legalize marijuana, permitting the use and possession of marijuana in certain amounts for those aged 21 or older. Policy Considerations.

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Veriheal

MARCH 20, 2024

One of the most commonly cited arguments against legalizing cannabis is that it could lead to an uptick in marijuana use among children. A federally funded study on the effects of adult-use legalization looked at data on middle schoolers in New Mexico and Nevada between 2017 and 2019. In New Mexico, lifetime use climbed from 14.1

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Veriheal

JANUARY 25, 2022

Despite historic tension between the tech and cannabis industries, VentureBeat reports that a slew of new policies from big tech companies in 2021 has signaled a critical turning point in the ongoing struggle. In February 2021, actor John Belushi called out big tech over its unjust policies regarding cannabis content.

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Canna Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

However, Google recently has decided to relax its advertising policies– at least around hemp and hemp CBD products. Advertisers will, among many other things, need to: Demonstrate the product’s compliance with all other (legal and regulatory) standards. But not all cannabis advertising is created equal on Google.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

but now they’ve been forced to reverse that policy. A power struggle has been brewing in Cook County, where job offers to several attorneys from Public Defender Sharone Mitchell were rescinded after confusion over the county’s drug policy. Recreational marijuana became legal in Illinois last January.

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Cannabis Chronicles

MAY 22, 2019

SPOKANE — Researchers at Washington State University are teaming up with the Puyallup Tribe of Indians in an effort to chart the tribe’s outcomes prescribing medicinal marijuana to patients. The Puyallup tribe has staked several claims in the state’s legal marijuana industry, opening two recreational stores in the Tacoma area.

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Bloom Medicinals. to $60K per year is Indeed’s estimated salary for compliance officer at Bloom Medicinals in Boca Raton, FL. Bloom Medicinals is one of the country’s largest family-owned cannabis companies. Responding promptly to legal requests for Licensing, Vendor Management and Facilities.

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Veriheal

AUGUST 24, 2022

Colorado could legalize psychedelics. The Colorado Secretary of State’s office announced earlier this month that the Natural Medicine Health Act received enough qualifying signatures to make it to this November’s ballot. The Natural Medicine Health Act: Pros and Cons.

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The Cannigma

MARCH 14, 2023

In fact, its history as a dangerous, illicit narcotic is dwarfed by its history as a medicine. And states like California that left it up to a patient and their doctor to decide whether cannabis was appropriate for them were accused of using medical cannabis as a guise for full legalization. In the mid 1990s something changed.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 5, 2022

Realizing this need, California lawmakers passed the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) in 2017. The statutory language contained in Proposition 64 and MAUCRSA combine to create the legal framework for California’s commercial cannabis industry. impact-of-california-cannabis-taxes-on-legal-market.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 21, 2021

We conclude that in medical-only access models there is little evidence to justify the differential treatment of medicinal cannabis patients, compared with those taking other prescription medications with potentially impairing effects. Office of Medicinal Cannabis, Department of Health, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia. Conclusion.

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Project CBD

MARCH 8, 2019

In recent years, the use of cannabis in veterinary medicine has gone from obscure concept to a mainstream issue. As so often happens, however, public demand is a few steps ahead of the medical and legal establishment. As of February 2019, the Veterinary Medical Board in California still has no official policy on hemp products.

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Veriheal

AUGUST 15, 2023

Could medical cannabis legalization be the key to helping Ukraine’s war-weary citizens? So much, in fact, that he believes it’s a moral imperative that the country legalize medical-use cannabis. Russia’s Deputy Ministry of Foreign Affairs called cannabis legalization efforts in Canada and the U.S.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 31, 2019

Blair Gibbs, the prime minister’s new policy adviser, is joining Downing Street from the Centre for Medicinal Cannabis. The prime minister is hiring Blair Gibbs, a long-term advocate of reforming cannabis laws, as one of his policy advisers in Downing Street. Buzzfeed News reports. ” Blair Gibbs / Twitter.

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The Cannigma

JUNE 12, 2022

Recreational: not legal, possession decriminalized Medical: legal. Recreational cannabis is not legal in Ukraine, but possession of up to 5 grams is decriminalized and there is a limited, but expanding, medical program. The post Is weed legal in Ukraine? Ukraine’s medical marijuana program. Can you grow your own weed?

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PrestoDoctor

APRIL 25, 2024

North Carolina is making strides in its journey toward medical marijuana legalization as the first legal dispensary opens on Cherokee reservation land. Overview of Medical Marijuana […] The post North Carolina Medical Marijuana Sales Begin at Cherokee Store appeared first on PrestoDoctor.

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PrestoDoctor

APRIL 25, 2024

North Carolina is making strides in its journey toward medical marijuana legalization as the first legal dispensary opens on Cherokee reservation land. Overview of Medical Marijuana […] The post North Carolina Medical Marijuana Sales Begin at Cherokee Store appeared first on PrestoDoctor.

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SpeedWeed

JULY 6, 2021

Harvard Law School is planning to open the first US policy center focused on the legalization and regulation of psychedelics like psilocybin, MDMA, and LSD. . By analyzing social, legal, and political barriers to access in this context, we hope to advance the understanding of their potential impact as therapeutics.”.

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NORML

MARCH 12, 2020

On March 12th, the House Veterans Affairs Committee (HVAC) passed two separate pieces of legislation pertaining to cannabis policy. doctors to fill out the state-legal medical marijuana recommendations. We must reform our federal cannabis policy.” Presently, V.A.

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Veriheal

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

. “If they fail that test and own up– ‘Yes, I smoke marijuana’–we do an evaluation of the young person to make sure there’s not something else going on,” Rear Admiral James Waters, the director of the Navy’s military personnel plans and policy division, said in a report.

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MMJ Recs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In Texas, a traditionally conservative state, the journey toward embracing medical marijuana has been marked by legal nuances and ongoing discussions. Cannabis Regulations in Texas The regulatory framework governing medical marijuana in Texas is intricate and reflects the state’s cautious approach to legalization.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 2, 2022

The move is another small step in the direction of making cannabis policy more lenient toward consumers who may be otherwise law-abiding citizens. It was only in 2013 that the country aligned its policy with the rest of the Union and allowed the cultivation of hemp by local farmers.

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NORML

MAY 28, 2020

” Their finding is consistent with that of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine which conducted its own literature review in 2017 and concluded , “There is no or insufficient evidence to support … a statistical association between cannabis use and … occupational accidents or injuries.”

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 13, 2021

Mapping Psychedelic Drug Policy Reform. As the psychedelic renaissance contributes to a swelling pool of safety and efficacy data pertaining to the potential therapeutic benefits of psychedelic medicine, many localities—particularly in North America—are revising their legal frameworks. This is what they are saying.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 25, 2022

May 25, 2022 – SACRAMENTO – Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco)’s Senate Bill 1186 , which restores voter-created access to medicinal cannabis across the state by requiring cities to provide patients access to purchase medicinal cannabis by delivery, passed the Senate with a unanimous bipartisan vote. 20210SB1186_96.

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The Blunt Truth

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The Cannabis Act allows employers to maintain and enforce a drug-free workplace policy that prohibits employees from using or possessing cannabis in the workplace and from being under the influence of cannabis while they are performing work, including remote work. What about job applicants?

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Veriheal

JUNE 3, 2022

Fan Controlled Football Player Tests League’s Cannabis Policy. While the moment got the FCF tons of attention, Stewarts celebration, unfortunately, crossed a legal line. Because the game occurred in Georgia, where cannabis is illegal, the Zappers cut Stewart for violating state and team policy. Let us know in the comments!

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NORML

MARCH 19, 2019

Chief Petitioners Madeline Martinez, Leia Flynn, and Angela Bacca filed a ballot measure to be known as “The Legalization Justice Act of 2020” at the Oregon State Capitol on Monday, March 18. The OJL seeks to right these wrongs as well as provide a model for other states to implement a more just version of cannabis legalization.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 20, 2022

In this post, we unpack the regulatory compliances a medicinal hemp product has to go through. Largely, hemp can be legally cultivated, processed and sold– but only for scientific, medicinal 2 or food or industrial purposes 3. For the purposes of this post, we will discuss only the medicinal route of doing business.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

A complex and comprehensive plan laid out in over 200 pages of legislative text, the CRTA would implement one of the most tightly regulated, highly taxed and heavily controlled legal cannabis markets in the world. The explicit language barring patients from “smoking” would be removed.

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Canna Law Blog

JULY 14, 2022

We’ve seen some bad reporting on this since then, along the lines of “weed is legal in Thailand!” Still, with its new policy, Thailand joins a short list of nations where weed has been decriminalized or better, including Canada , Mexico , and South Africa. The public immediately embraced the law. Stay tuned.

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