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Growing Pains with Medical Marijuana Taxation – Cannabis Industry News Alert

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Patients Mut. Assistance Collective Corp. Comm’r of Internal Revenue ; taxpayer able to overcome accuracy-related penalties assessed against it by maintaining good books and records). As drafted, the MORE Act would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level.

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Can medical cannabis survive adult-use legalization?

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But sometimes one unintended consequence of adult-use legalization is that the market no longer caters to medical patients. So, you have this attempt to legitimize healthcare and to adopt standards, to do things in a more scientific way, and in a more credible way, for patients and for industry. It’s a non-trivial issue.

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Meet the Revolutionary Doctor Who Legalized Drugs in Mexico Back in 1940

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Born in the country’s northern state of Durango, Dr. Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra was a pioneering force in the world’s drug decriminalization and harm reduction movements. Given the brutal treatment of mental patients in the 1930s, Salazar’s humanist approach was astounding. Salazar developed a keen interest in addiction.

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Taxation Of A Medical Marijuana Business – How Will The Ninth Circuit Hold?

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During the years at issue, California law provided an exemption from California laws penalizing the possession and cultivation of marijuana for patients and their primary caregivers when the possession or cultivation was for the patient’s personal medical purposes and was recommended or approved by a physician. Taxpayer’s “Problem”.

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Psychedelic Invest’s 100 Most Influential People in Psychedelics List

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Harris has written a variety of books that touch on the topics of consciousness, spirituality, and psychedelics. Sessa is also the Chief Medical Officer of Awakn Life Sciences, and has been a part of scientific and clinical studies administering LSD, psilocybin, ketamine, MDMA and DMT to patients and volunteers. Hamilton Morris.

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Trump’s New U.S. Attorney General Pick Says He Won’t Pursue Pot Crackdown

Marijuana Lawyer Blog

Although it seems the federal government may once again be taking a hands-off approach to marijuana policy in states where the drug is legal, one can never count on it so long as that classification remains on the books. have legalized marijuana for recreational use, while 30 have legalized for medicinal use and 10 have decriminalized it.

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The Nevada Independent Provides A Great Review Of All Current Legislation

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Taxation chief Melanie Young noted that once the agency took up the mantle of regulating marijuana in 2017, the task has dominated the workload and prevented it from moving forward on improving processes for collecting the $7 billion in other taxes they collect. Sealing records for decriminalized offenses.