NORML

JUNE 1, 2020

On Sunday, legislators finalized HB 819 , which expands the discretion of physicians so that they can recommend cannabis therapy for “any condition” that he or she “considers debilitating to an individual patient and is qualified through his [or her] medical education and training to treat.” John Bel Edwards.

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NORML

AUGUST 26, 2019

(To be fair, Democrats didn’t mention weed legalization on their party’s official platform until 2016.). So, it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that Virginia didn’t launch a medical marijuana program until 2015, nearly two decades after California. It removed qualifying conditions altogether.

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Illinois News Joint

MARCH 29, 2023

Cow started in the Medicinal Program in 2015 and was one of the first people to buy medical cannabis in Illinois. “I I had been using it since I was 11 years old and wanted to figure out how to use it in medicinal ways for my condition going forward. Without a job, Cow is now on disabilities and a limited budget for medicine.

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NORML

MARCH 14, 2019

Enacted in 1986, the Federal Drug-Free Workplace Program made it a condition for employment that all civilian employees at executive branch agencies be prohibited from using federally illegal substances on or off duty. A recent American Legion poll found that one in five veterans use marijuana to alleviate a medical condition.

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The Cannigma

JUNE 30, 2021

But in addition to the 18 states with legal adult-use (as well as medical), there are another 18 states that have fully functioning medical marijuana programs. In these three dozen states, from the West Coast to the Midwest to the South and the Northeast, patients use cannabis to treat countless medical conditions and everyday ailments.

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SpeedWeed

JUNE 14, 2021

State officials tasked with overseeing Ohio’s medical marijuana program approved last week the addition of three health conditions that qualify a patient to use cannabis medicinally. Spasticity is a medical condition characterized by prolonged muscle contraction and abnormal muscle tightness.

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Project CBD

JUNE 20, 2023

One gastrointestinal condition long associated with self-medication through cannabis is inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). IBD in Puerto Rico In 2016, the government of Puerto Rico legalized medicinal cannabis for a relatively short list of specific conditions, including Crohn’s disease.

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Illinois News Joint

AUGUST 10, 2023

in March 2016 and, before adult-use legalization, topped out at $83.14 in August 2019, the highest since fall of 2016. As reference, Illinois implemented the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act January 2014. Price per gram for extracts dropped to its lowest watermark at $52.82 April 2018. in March 2020.

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MassRoots

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

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. Inspired by the successful first full year, officials plan to expand the program by licensing more physicians, producers and retail dispensaries. Costa wrote on Twitter.

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MassRoots

MARCH 25, 2019

Over 70 percent of Florida voters approved medical marijuana in 2016,” Gov. When Florida voters approved Measure 2 in 2016, effectively legalizing the use of medical marijuana in the Sunshine State, they voted on legislation which permitted smoking. Which conditions qualify for medical cannabis in Florida?

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The Blunt Truth

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

After a failed attempt at adult use legalization in 2016, voters in Arizona finally passed Proposition 207 — also known as the Smart and Safe Act — which permits the possession and use of marijuana for adults ages 21 years or older and permits individuals to grow up to six marijuana plants in their residences. Washington, D.C.,

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 12, 2019

Rachel Levine today announced that effective July 20, anxiety disorders and Tourette syndrome will be approved serious medical conditions in the medical marijuana program based on the recommendation of the Medical Marijuana Advisory Board and a review of medical research on the use of marijuana to treat these conditions.

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MMJ Recs

JANUARY 25, 2021

Since 2016, Pennsylvania’s compassionate medical cannabis legislation, SB3, has offered those with certain medical conditions relief in the form of medical marijuana. Evidently, the program is quite successful. Qualifying Medical Conditions For MMJ In Pennsylvania. If you have a qualifying condition, yes.

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Cannabis Chronicles

DECEMBER 23, 2018

OKLAHOMA CITY — The rollout of statewide medical and recreational marijuana programs typically is a grindingly slow process that can take years. By contrast, voters in North Dakota, Ohio and neighboring Arkansas approved medical pot in 2016 but have yet to see sales begin amid legal wrangling and legislative meddling. “I

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Illinois News Joint

AUGUST 9, 2023

According to statistics from the Cannabis Regulation Oversight Office (CROO), starting with the cost of dry flower per gram from the beginning of the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act , medical patients in Illinois paid $10.38 per gram in January 2016, the first month of medical cannabis sales. in July 2023.

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Veriheal

JULY 6, 2021

Wait, Tennessee has a medical cannabis program? The Evolution of Tennessee’s Medical Cannabis Program. In 2016, the law was once again reformed to allow up to 0.9% The bill will expand the list of qualifying conditions the give patients the right to possess CBD oil containing no more than 0.9% This is news to me.

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Veriheal

MAY 15, 2023

In 2016, North Dakota voters approved a medical cannabis ballot. Hospice programs are primarily funded by Medicare, which causes issues for clinicians who work in the hospice setting and want to provide medical marijuana. Since 2018, voters have attempted to pass adult use but have failed. But in brighter news, legislation from Rep.

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Veriheal

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In addition to numerous expansions to the state’s medical marijuana (MMJ) program, the state’s decriminalization of cannabis went into effect in August, beginning the reversal of decades of harm done by the war on drugs. John Bel Edwards (D) in 2016.

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Canna Law Blog

APRIL 17, 2019

The USDA provided clarifying instructions in its September 2018 Instruction on Organic Certification of Industrial Hemp Production for the UDSA’s policy regarding the organic certification of industrial hemp production by certifying agents accredited by the USDA National Organic Program (NOP).

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Illinois News Joint

AUGUST 12, 2023

April 2016, Edibles price per gram started at $12.66, and after a year of sales, price per gram fluctuated between $17-$18. As reference, Illinois implemented the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act January 2014. Price per gram steadily decreased until it reached a low of $52.51 December 2021. Shortly after Gov.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Alabama legalized medical a medical cannabis program on May 17, 2021 when Governor Ivey signed SB 46 into law. Although medical cannabis program was signed into law last year, it has yet to be fully implemented. Since then, the legislature has passed a number of laws that have expanded the state’s medical cannabis program.

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Project CBD

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

But the quality of the government-issue reefer matters less than the fact that Uncle Sam has been supplying him with it regularly since 1982, when Rosenfeld won the right to smoke cannabis for reasons of medical necessity under the auspices of the federal government’s Compassionate Investigational New Drug (IND) program.

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This substance needs to be addressed as part of all workplace motor vehicle safety programs. Make sure your policy describes the conditions under which testing will occur (e.g., Provide access to support for employees with drug problems, either through in-house programs or referrals to local resources. 2016 Aug;111(8):1348-59.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 9, 2020

1 deadline to train managers and employees under a new compliance and safety program that is the first of its kind in the nation. The state’s Responsible Vendor Training Program is designed to support licensee compliance and enhance the safety of customers and employees. Seed-to-sale tracking compliance. Read the full article.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Tabling of Report on the Review into the 2016 Medicinal Cannabis amendments to the Narcotic Drugs Act 1967. Until 2016 the manufacture licensing provisions in the ND Act were applied to the control of narcotic drugs obtained from the opium poppy. 5 September 2019. Review of the operation of the medicinal cannabis scheme in the ND Act.

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The Joint Blog

APRIL 3, 2019

Under the new law, autism spectrum disorder joins the following qualifying medical cannabis conditions: Cancer. In October, Rhode Island’s Department of Health okay’d the treatment, and last December in Iowa, the Board of Medicine has voted to add autism to the list of qualifying conditions for the medical cannabis program.”

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Kind Meds (Cannabis Education Blog)

AUGUST 24, 2018

As a part of the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act, Marijuana in Arizona can be used to treat: “A chronic or debilitating disease, medical condition or the treatment that causes: Cachexia or wasting syndrome. States with Medical Marijuana Programs Fill Less Opioid Prescriptions. Learn More About the Arizona Medical Marijuana Program.

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Canna Care Docs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

After voting in 2016 to legalize the sale of recreational marijuana to adults 21 years or older, Maine officially began selling in October! If you are buying cannabis from a dispensary and using it to treat a medical condition such as pain, anxiety, or insomnia, it is much more beneficial to purchase marijuana with a medical card in hand.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 13, 2021

This helps scientists zero in on strains that would likely be most effective in treating various conditions such as epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and cancer. In 2016, Victoria became the first Australian state to legalise the use of medicinal cannabis and its first government grown crop was also harvested that year.

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Veriheal

AUGUST 3, 2021

This legislation provides important updates to our state’s medical [cannabis] program to ensure that patients have improved access to medication.”. HB 1024 follows up on recommendations that were put forward by the Department of Health to amend the Medical Marijuana Act, which was signed by the Governor in April 2016.

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Veriheal

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Things began to change in 2014 with the introduction of the Farm Bill , which legalized hemp research programs. In July 2016 Hawaii Gov. David Ige signed an act establishing Hawaii’s Industrial Hemp Pilot Program , which allowed for the cultivation of hemp for the purpose of agricultural and academic research.

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The Cannigma

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Along with Corinne Tobias, the co-founder and program director of the Cannabis Coaching Institute, Meharg spoke with The Cannigma about the importance of cannabis coaching in this golden era of legal weed, and how their own journey as patients led them to become cannabis coaches. What a cannabis coach isn’t.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Tax revenue collected pursuant to the bill—an estimated $500 million in the first full fiscal year of operation—will be appropriated to school districts using the 2016 fair funding formula (Act 35). Also… Pennsylvania Expands Medical Marijuana Program. In July, Pennsylvania significantly expanded its medical marijuana program.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

For those of you in the dark about Florida’s Medical Marijuana Program, I will be lighting up the dim corners of Florida: The Nation’s Fastest-Growing Medical Marijuana Market , according to The Miami New Times on May 2, 2019. AUTHOR: Heather Allman. PUBLISHER: CANNABIS LAW REPORT. Clearing the Air- Florida Condensed Cannabis

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Pennsylvania adopted Act 16, becoming one of 38 states that have medical marijuana programs in the United States. Their research focuses on medical conditions such as the treatment of neuropathies, autism, opioid dependence, and sickle cell disease. January 6, 2022. Author Jay Majitov.

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NORML

APRIL 26, 2019

At the state level, Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota signed a package of bills into law to expand the state’s medical cannabis access program. Days later, the Chief Deputy announced that the cite and release program will be put on hold, without further details. CO resident? Connecticut. FL resident? TX resident? TX resident?

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The North Carolina Department of Agriculture (“NCDA”) provides a useful summary of the state’s law regarding hemp cultivation: Hemp production has been legalized in North Carolina, but only as part of the state’s pilot program as allowed under federal law. The law was modified in 2016 in House Bill 992.

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