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Weekly Legislative Roundup 3/14/20

NORML

The bill allows the department of health to issue permits to medical cannabis dispensaries for the delivery of medical cannabis and cannabis products to qualifying patients or primary caregivers if certain conditions are met. Legislation is pending, House Bill 550, to expand the state’s marijuana decriminalization law.

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Weekly Legislative Roundup 2/29/20

NORML

2227) is bipartisan legislation that removes marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act, thus decriminalizing the substance at the federal level and enabling states to set their own policies. Legislation is pending, HB 2097 / SB 2024, which would authorize licensed medical cannabis facilities to sell edible products. HI resident?

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Craft Cannabis Growers in Illinois Approved for Extension to Launch Operations

Veriheal

If the total number of new licensees had managed to get their hands on the $1 million required to open a dispensary, the existing number of retail locations would almost double. Previously, growers were required to have their operations up and running by the deadline date. In 2022, 192 new stores received licenses.

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Weekly Cannabis Roundup April 16

Veriheal

But just last year, possession became decriminalized and the vote for legalized recreational use just passed. However, there was one caveat… legalization wouldn’t go into effect until 2024. Northam’s decision to move the date is going to appease the masses until retail dispensaries are established in the coming years. .

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Virginia Lawmakers Officially Legalize Cannabis

SpeedWeed

Initially, the state was looking at 2024 for an end to prohibition, but Governor Ralph Northam felt it could be hypocritical and problematic to keep criminalizing something that would be legal in the future. . In 2019, an attempt to legalize and decriminalize cannabis failed in the state. Victory Over Opposition In Virginia.

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Illinois Issues 55 More Cannabis Dispensary Licenses in Second of Three Licensing Lotteries

SpeedWeed

Rather, by the terms of the 184 pages of legislative analysis for the law entitled “AN ACT CONCERNING RESPONSIBLE AND EQUITABLE REGULATION OF ADULT-USE CANNABIS,” as of July 1, 2021, possession of small amounts of cannabis would be decriminalized. View original article.

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Octopuses On Ecstasy, Thailand’s Uncertain Cannabis Future, & CA Loses Out On Psychedelics

Veriheal

Since then, a rush of dispensaries and cannabis-related businesses have opened across the country. The proposed bill would have decriminalized the personal possession of natural psychedelics. Unfortunately, this bill would decriminalize possession prior to these guidelines going into place, and I cannot sign it.”