SMPL

AUGUST 14, 2019

The American Bar Association (ABA) adopted a resolution on Monday that calls on Congress to allow states to set their own marijuana policies and recommends rescheduling or descheduling cannabis under federal law. The report goes on to describe how its recommendations would help resolve some of these issues.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

3] Further, notwithstanding the determination of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which is required to defer to the Department of Health and Human Services’ assessment that cannabis has no acceptable medical utility, 37 states and four territories have enacted laws allowing for the medical use of cannabis products. [4] Conclusion.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The membership subsequently met with the USDA’s new Hemp Work Group, and White House officials that serve the President on agriculture and drug control policy. Senators) who joined the group in a spirited, interactive discussion on hemp public policy. The national media took notice of some of the highlights: Rep. By Kyle Jaeger.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 14, 2021

Legislation opens doors for cannabis policy reform in the current Congress. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), released draft legislation today that would remove cannabis from the schedule of controlled substances while allowing states to determine their own cannabis policies. An End to Cannabis Banking Woes?

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Sensi Seeds

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

All of these companies, the seeds banks, cultivators, manufacturers, grow shops, distributors, and online vendors operate in a grey market that permits them to sell their products as long as they follow some rules. Irrespective of where the directive came from, policy on CBD has changed.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 24, 2019

The STATES Act passes in Congress, the President signs it and it becomes law which means that in the states where cannabis is legal : Banking system becomes available to cannabis businesses. The second path would be the administrative action by the Drug Enforcement Agency [“DEA”] and its Diversion Control Division.

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Marijuana Packaging

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Action Against Promotion of Marijuana Sales Facebook officials have made it clear that their policy firmly communicates what users can and can’t post and they claim that the promotion of marijuana sales is strictly prohibited. The policy remains true regardless of whether the page is coming from a state where the plant is legal or not.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 2, 2019

Starting today, US manufacturers and merchants can apply through LegitScript to certify CBD products and websites that are in compliance with USDA, FDA, FTC, and DEA regulations, as well as state-specific laws.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 30, 2019

Cannabis is not a “gateway” drug, according to the ASA and the DEA’s own statements cited in the August 2016 U.S. But also needed are standard operating procedures at the national level, along with accompanying tax and banking frameworks. . Download : Cannabis Misinformation: What Does the DEA say about Marijuana?

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

State opt-out- States’ rights would be preserved with the authority of states to set their own marijuana policies and keep it illegal, but states would not be able to stop product from being transported through their state. There are no provisions on banking, but making cannabis legal should remove money laundering issues.

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Canna Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This includes bills on banking (see the SAFE Banking Act , which has passed the House no less than five times) and overall federal legalization (see the MORE Act as well as its sister Senate legislation, the Cannabis Administration Opportunity Act (“CAOA”)). The enforcement role moves from DEA to ATF.

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Veriheal

DECEMBER 1, 2022

CRO Financial Services: The SAFE Banking Act. The SAFE Banking Act was introduced in 2019 and has passed the House seven times, but it still needs to make it to the Senate floor. Throughout the years, the SAFE Banking Act has been revised and is now referred to as the SAFE Banking Plus Act. The Drug Policy Reform Act.

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

(See Thoughts on the Terrible Pageant of Marijuana Rescheduling ) Even if marijuana is moved into Schedule III, it will still be illegal to buy and sell interstate without a DEA license, and state markets won’t fundamentally change. marijuana operators. The leading case on this topic is United States v. While some U.S.

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SpeedWeed

JULY 14, 2021

SAFE Banking’ no longer good enough. At a press conference announcing the bill this afternoon in Washington, DC, bill co-sponsor Cory Booker made it clear that federal legalization, with equity, would take precedence over previous partial efforts like the SAFE Banking Act. Take the DEA out of the cannabis law enforcement business.

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SpeedWeed

JULY 15, 2021

The act would transfer agency functions with regard to cannabis from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) jurisdiction to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of the Treasury. .

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SpeedWeed

JULY 15, 2021

The act would transfer agency functions with regard to cannabis from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) jurisdiction to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of the Treasury. .

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SpeedWeed

JULY 15, 2021

The act would transfer agency functions with regard to cannabis from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) jurisdiction to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of the Treasury. .

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SpeedWeed

JULY 14, 2021

The act would transfer agency functions with regard to cannabis from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) jurisdiction to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of the Treasury. .

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Puff Puff Post

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to drug policy, there’s still quite a bit of confusion, and the reality is that most people simply don’t know what scheduling is and how the system actually works. Following his announcement of a new “war on drugs” in 1971, Richard Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 1973.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 27, 2022

The news that is attached I replicate below, and I include as well a couple of newsletters from the American Bar Association Cannabis Law & Policy Committee that I Chair. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said in a letter that marijuana seed that has a delta-9-THC concentration of not more than 0.3% ” shorturl.at/fyXZ3.

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NewsMunchies

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As of this writing, cannabis remains a prohibited Schedule 1 drug, defined by the DEA as having “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” . Despite the liberalization of marijuana policies at the state level, the future of federal legalization is hazy.

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Barr stated, “I am not going to go after companies that have relied on the Cole memorandum,” referring to the 2013 Obama administration policy of not enforcing marijuana prohibition in states where legalization has been established. “To Nevertheless, during his confirmation hearing in January 2019, Attorney General William P. Comm’r (T.C.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

From where I am sitting, however, it seems highly unlikely that the same grey-haired Congress that hasn’t yet managed to pull it together on a simple banking bill is all of a sudden going to rise up and legalize the leaf nationwide as its Christmas gift to the nation. The record-high support comes in spite of the federal illegality.”

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

I was lucky enough to work with Blumenauer and his office over the years, on everything from concepts around an interstate cannabis exchange (Oregon, California, and other states have now passed bills on this), to hosting him at my old Cannabis Law and Policy course. When pressed, he would say “ this year more likely than not.”

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

They write… In this week’s edition: Plans to vote on cannabis banking legislation announced in both chambers of Congress, with predictions that House will pass the SAFE Act by the end of October. DEA increases the cannabis research quota. Idaho is the home state of Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo.

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Canna Law Blog

APRIL 7, 2025

As economists overwhelmingly question the Trump Administrations tariff policy , one has to wonder if there is a deeper strategy behind his seemingly chaotic moves? That classification means cannabis businesses are blocked from traditional banking, prevented from listing on U.S. That fear, and related administrative actions (i.e.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 25, 2019

Both paths are complex processes in which scientific, medical, policy and political forces have influence. There are other avenues Congress can take besides rescheduling marijuana to ameliorate the seeming breakdown in federalism brought about by federal marijuana policy. It was not a policy priority of the Obama administration.

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The Joint Blog

JUNE 2, 2020

Cory Gardner (R) of Colorado and Elizabeth Warren (D) of Massachusetts, that would allow states to write their own marijuana policies, remove marijuana from the list in the CSA, and decriminalize it federally. That is the federal policy.” Joe’s latest policy stances on marijuana. Legalize medical marijuana.

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