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Intoxicating Hemp Swindle

Project CBD

What’s more, synthesized Delta-9 THC is present in many of these products, despite being prohibited in both California’s cannabis and hemp programs. Devitt expresses serious safety concerns. “Each ingredient has a well-documented safety profile at the included doses.” This was mostly attributable to THCP.

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The STATES Act Reintroduced: Bipartisan Measure Limits Federal Government’s Ability To Interfere With State-Sanctioned Marijuana Business, Policies

NORML

HR 1455 : The REFER Act (Restraining Excessive Federal Enforcement & Regulations of Cannabis Act), introduced by Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA). To date, these statewide regulatory programs are operating largely as voters and politicians intended.

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Virginia, Marijuana, and How Medical Legalization May Unfold in the South

NORML

So, it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that Virginia didn’t launch a medical marijuana program until 2015, nearly two decades after California. And it took extensive, concerted efforts from marijuana law reform organizations like NORML to negotiate with Virginia’s Republican Party to get the program finally running.

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Michigan Legislature Introduces Bills to Reduce Caregiver Program

SpeedWeed

Michigan’s unregulated cannabis market poses an immediate threat to the health of all Michiganders, and the Michigan Cannabis Safety Act updates outdated laws to help ensure all Michiganders have access to tested, tracked and labeled cannabis products,” MCMA Board Chair Shelly Edgerton told Mlive.com. . “We Companies such as The Botanical Co.

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Weekly Legislative Roundup 1/25/19

NORML

179: The VA Medicinal Cannabis Research Act of 2019 to facilitate federally-sponsored clinical research into the safety and efficacy of medical cannabis among veterans. Update : The House Committee on Health & Insurance referred the bill unamended to the Committee of the Whole, meaning the bill will now be considered by the full House.

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Cannabis packaging bills under consideration

Illinois News Joint

After its first reading, HB3741 was referred to the Rules Committee. HB3970 was referred to the Rules Committee. Probably the most watched bill of these four is HB3741, which requires “cannabis-infused products that have been treated with radiation to conform to specified labeling requirements.” On that same day, Rep.

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New Study Once Again Validates Americans’ Support for Cannabis Reform

Veriheal

Cannabis programs also create opportunities for entrepreneurship and a wide variety of other jobs. Respondents were also asked questions such as what they refer to the plant as, whether or not they support legalization, and their support for expungement. The survey found that 37% of respondents refer to the plant as “weed.”