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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. In response to its growing popularity, the DEA announced in 2016 that kratom would be placed in the restrictive Schedule I along with cannabis.

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Eaze Establishes Program To Provide Low-Income Patients With Medical Cannabis

Veriheal

8, 2016, effectively eradicated compassionate care (medical and emotional care for patients with terminal diseases). Before Proposition 64 was officially enacted into state law, California’s medical cannabis consumers were generously served by a range of successful and well-executed compassionate care programs.

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Idaho Falls Man Sentenced to 5 Years for Trafficking LSD

Cannabis Law Report

The EIP SAUSA program allows law enforcement to utilize the federal criminal justice system – through the EIP SAUSA – to prosecute, convict, and sentence violent, armed criminals and drug traffickers. This program was created in January 2016. These criminals often receive stiffer penalties than they might in state courts.

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Pennsylvanians Spent $132M On Medical Marijuana In Successful First Year

MassRoots

In 2018, the first full year of operations for the retail medical marijuana program in Pennsylvania, patients spent more than $130 million on the herbal medication. Of the card-holding patients, more than 83,000 purchased products from a dispensary, and more than 600,000 transactions were collectively reported by the licensed dispensaries.

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MPP Report: Marijuana Tax Revenue in States that Regulate Marijuana for Adult Use

Cannabis Law Report

Since 2014, when sales began in Colorado and Washington, legalization policies have provided states a new revenue stream to bolster budgets and fund important services and programs. Eight of the laws passed in 2020 or 2021, and in seven of those states, licensing and tax collections have not yet begun. of the population enrolled.

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In legal weed states, employees are failing drug tests at record pace

The Cannigma

In states with only medical programs or where marijuana is not legal at all, positive test rates also rose, but by roughly half that amount. . The figures were based on 7 million urine tests collected between January and December 2000 by Quest Diagnostics, one of the largest diagnostic laboratories in the United States. .

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Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) Reports Says States Have Collected $US10 Billion In Cannabis Taxes So Far

Cannabis Law Report

Since 2014 when sales began in Colorado and Washington, legalization policies have provided states a new revenue stream to bolster budgets and fund important services and programs. Eight of the laws were approved in 2020 or 2021, and in seven of those states, sales and tax collections have not yet begun. of the population enrolled.