NORML

MARCH 8, 2019

Currently, hundreds of licensed and regulated businesses do not have access to the banking industry and are unable to accept credit cards, deposit revenues, or write checks to meet payroll or pay taxes. No industry can operate safely, transparently, or effectively without access to banks or other financial institutions.

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Banking Business Access Safety 210

NORML

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 165, to establish a medical marijuana access program for qualified patients with a physician’s recommendation to access medical marijuana from licensed retail outlets. Send a message to your lawmakers in support of medical marijuana access. AL resident? NH resident? OK resident?

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Legislation Patients Decriminalization Access 252

NORML

JANUARY 11, 2019

Regulate Like Alcohol : The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2019 — (HR 420) seeks to deschedule cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act, thus permitting state governments to regulate these activities as they see fit. Legislation is pending, House Bill 1272, to expand access to medical cannabis in North Dakota.

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Legislation Decriminalization Hemp Patients 218

NORML

MARCH 8, 2019

North Dakota’s first medical cannabis dispensary opened its doors last week in Fargo; and registered out-of-state medical cannabis patients will now be able to access their medicine while visiting Hawaii. Update : HB 1518 is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on 3/11/2019. AR resident? CO resident?

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Legislation Patients Access Seed-To-Sale 193

NORML

JANUARY 19, 2020

House Bill 1359 would create a 5 year medical marijuana pilot program, allowing patients to access their medicine from licensed dispensaries. Send a message to your lawmakers in support of medical marijuana access. In 2019, a similar bill, House Bill 364, passed the state legislature but was then vetoed by Governor Sununu.

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Legislation Decriminalization Access Patients 251

NORML

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Regulate Nationally : The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2019 (HR 420) seeks to deschedule cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act, thus permitting state governments to regulate these activities as they see fit. Update : HB 2149 was approved by the Public Safety Committee on 2/20. Your Highness, Carly. Actions to Take.

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Legislation Hemp Compliance Compliance 192

NORML

MARCH 14, 2020

Veteran Access : HR 1647, the Veterans Equal Access Act, would allow V.A. Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 165, to establish a medical marijuana access program for qualified patients with a physician’s recommendation to access medical marijuana from licensed retail outlets. Your Highness, Carly. Actions to Take.

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Legislation Access Patients THC 229

NORML

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Regulate Nationally : The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2019 (HR 420) seeks to deschedule cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act, thus permitting state governments to regulate these activities as they see fit. Click here to email your lawmakers in support of banking access. Your Highness, Carly. Actions to Take.

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Legislation Decriminalization Access Patients 188

NORML

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The House Financial Services subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions held a hearing Wednesday to address the lack of access to basic banking services by state-legal marijuana businesses. House Bill 324 seeks to expand and facilitate patients’ access to medical cannabidiol (CBD) products. Actions to Take.

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Legislation Hemp Compliance Compliance 189

NORML

MARCH 22, 2019

Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 59, to expand medical cannabis access. Update : HB 1383 was heard and approved by the Committees on Judiciary and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs on 3/19. Legislation is pending, House Bill 673 / Senate Bill 1430, to expand medical cannabis access. DE resident?

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Legislation Hemp Patients Compliance 166

NORML

JANUARY 4, 2019

Happy New Year and welcome to the first Weekly Legislative Roundup of 2019! Steve Cohen (D-TN) and Don Young (R-AK) re-introduced the Compassionate Access, Research Expansion and Respect States (CARERS) Act, which protects those engaged in state-lawful medical marijuana programs from federal prosecution. NH resident? GA resident?

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Legislation Clinical Trials Research and Development Access 122

Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 13, 2019

With that in mind, here are the biggest pitfalls for California cannabis leases in 2019: 1. Local authorization. As a result, we don’t have fantastic access to the financial institutions under the 2014 FinCEN guidelines , so it’s still pretty difficult for cannabis businesses to secure even just bank accounts.

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Banking Access Cultivation Cannabis 66

NORML

MAY 20, 2019

Millions now carry harmful convictions for harmless offenses that still haunt their lives and deeply hinder their access to everything from housing, financial assistance and employment opportunities. ” Without exception, The War on Drugs was a bigger critical failure than Fyre Festival could’ve ever dreamed about. .”

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Consumption Conditions Legislation Patients 160

Canna Law Blog

APRIL 22, 2019

Right now, there is an ongoing battle between the state and local governments for access to cannabis, which should be the first place that states (and possibly even Congress) look when considering legalization. AB-1530 recently failed passage on April 9, 2019 but may be reconsidered.

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Access Legalization Retail Legislation 65

Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Seems like not a month goes by in California where the Assembly isn’t trying to pass a slew of cannabis bills to help regulate the state’s industry under the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (“MAUCRSA”). And October was no different. ” Vape Cartridges and Pens.

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Research and Development Programs Retail Vaping 63

Canna Law Blog

MARCH 1, 2019

At this point, over a month into the 2019 session, a preponderance of legislators appear vaguely inclined to “let it ride” and drop the big ideas when it comes to cannabis. Let’s hope Oregon gets it right in 2019, so that cannabis consumers are treated like alcohol consumers, and patients have access to medicine without fear of job loss.

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Legislation Consumption Hemp Recreational 66

Veriheal

JULY 23, 2020

According to the Oregon Cannabis Association (OCA) , police budgets received more than $2 million directly from cannabis tax proceeds last year – despite the city passing a measure in 2016 stipulating that those funds should be designated for substance misuse treatment, public safety, and small business development.

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Research and Development Safety Treatment Cannabis 98

The Cannigma

MARCH 25, 2021

A United Kingdom police chief proposed a novel idea this January: Allow drug-dependent inmates access to free cannabis to help them overcome opioid addiction. This creates a situation where state detention facilities — even where cannabis is legal — do not allow inmates access to medical cannabis because it violates federal law.

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Marijuana Access Law Pharmaceutical 145

Cannabis Law Report

JULY 13, 2021

The Working Group’s report represents some of the best responsible cannabis policy examining the needs of the community from a variety of aspects including public health and safety as well as social and economic impacts. The County of LA, comprised of 89 local jurisdictions, is larger in population than 42 other states.

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Safety Topical Retail Policy 105

Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 14, 2019

Each year, Americans for Safe Access (ASA) analyzes, summarizes, and critiques legislation and regulations as they become law and develops this report to assess how these programs are serving the needs of patients. CONSUMER SAFETY AND PROVIDER REQUIREMENTS. MEDICAL CANNABIS TIMELINE. THE MEDICAL USE OF CANNABIS. CATEGORY 1.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 18, 2019

Wake Up California Cannabis Growers Its 2019 and the world you may have grown up and worked in since the late 1990’s was changed forever on January 1, 2018 due to the passage of SB 94 [Proposition 64]. The rights of Californians to have access to cannabis for medical use is discussed in Keeping Proposition 215’s.

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Cultivation Environment Cannabis Agriculture 64

Veriheal

JANUARY 15, 2024

This revision emphasizes safeguarding the basic human rights of individuals to ensure their safety and well-being, even if they are involved in drug-related issues. They do not have access to appropriate representation to aid them. Moving Forward The United Nations will revisit the 2019 Ministerial Declaration in 2024.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

This number also underscores the entire agency’s tireless efforts, particularly those of our hardworking staff, to thoughtfully regulate a safe, accessible, and effective adult-use marketplace that keeps critical tenets of our mission – public health, public safety, and equity, among others – front of mind.”.

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Marijuana Seed-To-Sale Safety Data 100

Project CBD

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Sales appear to have peaked in 2019, when natural channel consumers spent more than $90.7 Despite the companies’ submitting the required data demonstrating the “reasonable expectation of safety under the recommended conditions of use,” the FDA rejected the applications, citing the drug preclusion clause. Accessed July 25, 2021.

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CBD Seed-To-Sale Food Access 144

Canna Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2019

Great news: on March 7, 2019, the “ Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act of 2019 ” (or, the “SAFE Banking Act”) was officially introduced in the House of Representatives. If Congress fails to act, we are discouraging responsible, regulated markets and allowing a serious public safety threat to go unaddressed.”.

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Banking Marijuana Safety Business 82

Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

(A disclosure of my own: I went to Synthesis in 2019 for a 3-day retreat.). Full report. Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board Overview.

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Research and Development Safety Policy Conditions 105

Canna Law Blog

JULY 4, 2019

In May 2019, Gallup pollsters asked Americans about their trust in federal agencies. The opening paragraph of the statement is reassuring: Science forms the basis for decisions at the [FDA] and is paramount when it comes to making decisions that will impact the health and safety of the American public. People are distrustful.

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CBD Hemp Oil Pharmaceutical 97

NORML

MAY 3, 2019

Governor Jay Inslee (D) of Washington signed legislation into law allowing medical cannabis to be accessed by patients on school grounds, and separate legislation allowing the production of industrial hemp in accordance with new federal hemp regulations. Click here to email your lawmakers in support of medical cannabis access.

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Legislation Decriminalization Hemp Patients 189

Veriheal

APRIL 14, 2022

Unfortunately, this lack of access to banking and other financial resources has caused many security risks and issues for cannabis businesses, their owners, their employees, and the consumers they serve. In September 2019, the House of Representatives passed the bill. A Long Road to Cannabis Banking Reform. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.)

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Banking Business Cannabis Access 119

Veriheal

OCTOBER 27, 2020

While working as part of the school safety task force in 2010, Robert received a sprained shoulder and two fractured shin bones from wrestling a student that had assaulted a member of the staff. 2019 came around, and Robert found himself in a coma for many days. He received a random drug test on September 5th of 2019.

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Chronic Pain Cannabis Conditions Medicine 121

Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

For those engaged in the legal cannabis industry in Oregon, the 2019 Oregon Legislative Session is of the utmost importance and relevance. . Regardless of whether one is a tourist or a resident, the presence of safe consumption spaces is paramount in order to protect the health, welfare, and safety of the general public. They write.

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Law Agriculture Consumption Events 58

Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Put simply, these retailers, that are allowed easy access to the public through Weedmaps, profit without contributing to California while risking the health and safety of our state’s residents.”. September 11, 2019. Senator Nancy Skinner, Chair, Public Safety Committee. Read full report: [link]. Governor Gavin Newsom.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 11, 2022

Colorado marijuana dispensaries passed underage sales checks at a 95 percent rate in 2021, according to the MED, slightly down from 97 percent in 2020 and 2019. “It’s the availability and accessibility [of violation information], and putting it on par with what we’re doing in tobacco and alcohol.”

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Legislation Seed-To-Sale Compliance Compliance 105

Cannabis Law Report

JULY 2, 2021

Indeed, there is a danger that federal legalization, done incorrectly, could produce outcomes even more adverse than the status quo wherein consumers and patients in states where marijuana is legal are generally able to access the marijuana they need. Florida’s medical marijuana market is primed for growth of up to $1.3

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Veriheal

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Cannabis is easily accessible, and the regulations are loosening up quite a bit. Billy was even hospitalized after the government saw to confiscating the cannabis oil which he had accessed. . The 2018 regulations have established that patients can be prescribed medical cannabis which can also be accessed over the counter.

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Veriheal

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety Chief Wayne Muller, the state has averaged a 10% month-over-month increase in medical cannabis patients over the last 18 months. Texas’ consistent gains can, in large part, be attributed to its recent efforts to increase access to its program.

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Edibles Hemp Epilepsy Programs 98

Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 26, 2019

The public safety concerns resulting from the dearth of cannabis banking has led dozens of state Attorneys General, the American Banking Association, and numerous other voices to urge the passage of legislation like the SAFE Banking Act so that the U.S. ” Reluctant Banking and Public Safety Concerns. businesses. banking system.

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