NORML

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! At the state level, activists in Florida and Missouri gathered in their state capitals along side state and local NORML chapters to lobby state lawmakers in favor of sensible marijuana policy reform. Legislation has been re-introduced by Sen. AZ resident?

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Legislation Decriminalization Access Patients 188

NORML

JANUARY 25, 2020

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state. Missouri state regulators began issuing the first of nearly 200 licenses to medical cannabis providers.

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Legislation Decriminalization Safety Cultivation 191

NORML

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state. Legislation is pending, House Bill 550, to expand the state’s marijuana decriminalization law.

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Legislation Decriminalization Patients Access 201

NORML

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Activities involving the personal possession and/or cultivation of cannabis in private are no longer subject to either criminal or civil penalties in the Australian Capital Territory, in accordance with legislation that took effect last week. Additional information about the new policy is available online here.

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Cultivation Policy Legislation Cannabis 261

NORML

JANUARY 18, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state. Click here to email your Representative and urge them to support this important legislation. Connecticut. CT resident?

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Legislation Decriminalization Access Therapy 190

NORML

MARCH 29, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Governor Jim Justice (R) of West Virginia signed legislation into law that allows financial institutions to provide banking services related to the state’s medical marijuana program. It now awaits consideration by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.

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Legislation Decriminalization Hemp Patients 194

NORML

JUNE 25, 2019

Pritzker has signed legislation legalizing the adult use of marijuana and regulating its commercial production and retail sale. Illinois is now the eleventh state to legalize adult-use marijuana, and it is the second state to legalize marijuana use via legislative action rather than by voter initiative.

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Legalization Marijuana Legislation Cultivation 279

NORML

APRIL 5, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Governor Gary Herbert (R) of Utah signed legislation into law to allow those with certain misdemeanor cannabis convictions to have their records automatically expunged. Governor Leon Guerrero (D) of Guam signed cannabis legalization legislation into law.

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Legislation Banking Hemp Compliance 202

NORML

MARCH 8, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Governor Mark Gordon (R) of Wyoming signed industrial hemp production legislation into law. Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state. AL resident?

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Legislation Patients Access Seed-To-Sale 193

NORML

MARCH 1, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Roers Jones, who sponsored the recently defeated decriminalization bill, is trying to get her language inserted as a part of separate legislation. Send a message to your federal lawmakers in support of this important legislation. GA resident?

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Legislation Compliance Compliance Hemp 193

NORML

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed legislation into law this week permitting the production of industrial hemp in accordance with the new federal regulations. Click here to email your Representative and urge them to support this important legislation.

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Legislation Hemp Compliance Compliance 192

NORML

MAY 3, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! 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.

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Legislation Decriminalization Hemp Patients 190

NORML

MARCH 22, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Governor Ron DeSantis (R) of Florida signed legislation into law to restore patients’ right to smoke medical cannabis. Send a message to your federal lawmakers in support of this important legislation. California. CA resident? DE resident?

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Legislation Hemp Patients Compliance 168

NORML

MAY 17, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Governor Jay Inslee (D) of Washington signed legislation into law to allow individuals with prior low-level cannabis convictions to apply to the sentencing court to have their record vacated. The two measures became law absent Mayor DeBlasio’s signature.

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Legislation Hemp Compliance Compliance 168

NORML

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

A complex and comprehensive plan laid out in over 200 pages of legislative text, the CRTA would implement one of the most tightly regulated, highly taxed and heavily controlled legal cannabis markets in the world. The explicit language barring patients from “smoking” would be removed.

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Legalization Legislation Programs Access 336

NORML

JUNE 28, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Senator Ron Wyden and Congressman Earl Blumenauer introduced legislation to allow for interstate commerce when it comes to state-legal cannabis programs. Governors Ron DeSantis (R) of Florida signed industrial hemp production legislation into law.

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Legislation Access Decriminalization Patients 117

Veriheal

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This bill would heavily reduce the cannabis products on the market that are currently available recreationally, returning to more traditional policies of the past. The signing of House Bill 1325 by Governor Abbott in 2019 legalized the cultivation of industrial hemp (cannabis containing less than 0.3% ounces of cannabis.

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Recreational Legalization Marijuana Programs 87

NORML

MAY 31, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Governor Steve Sisolak (D) of Nevada signed legislation into law this week to allow individuals to get their records vacated for offenses that are no longer a crime in the state. Send a message to your federal lawmakers in support of this important legislation.

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Legislation Banking Access Hemp 125

NORML

JANUARY 9, 2020

With the 2020 legislative session already in full swing in many states, NORML chapters across the country are organizing lobby days to advocate for sensible reform policies in their state. On January 16 , join Delaware NORML at 10:30am at the 2nd Floor Senate Hearing Room – Legislative Hall in Dover.

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Decriminalization Policy Patients Legislation 195

NORML

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state. Send a message to your lawmakers in support of home cultivation rights. DE resident? The bill was deferred.

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Legislation Decriminalization Cultivation Patients 105

Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Louis on Monday signed a bill to decriminalize marijuana possession and cultivation for adults, a local reform that comes as efforts to legalize cannabis statewide in Missouri are also gaining momentum. It would also make it so that “no resources” could be spent to punish adults for cultivating up to six flowering plants.

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Decriminalization Cultivation Law State Laws 105

NORML

MARCH 13, 2019

Though Governor Cuomo’s budget proposal does not allow for the personal cultivation of marijuana plants, the NY General Assembly’s budget proposal does promote home cultivation upon the legalization of adult-use and retail sale of cannabis in the state. Read about home cultivation and our core tenets here.

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Legalization Cultivation Legislation Retail 40

Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Oregon Legislature is now rapidly preparing for the 2022 Oregon Legislative Session. In even numbered years, the Legislative Assembly convenes for six weeks starting in February. We are now working closely with numerous legislators, agency personnel, and other stakeholders to influence these legislative proposals.

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Legislation Policy Cultivation Business 97

NORML

JUNE 12, 2019

The crowd of activists and press heard from NORML’s state policy team, the ACLU-NJ, medical cannabis patients, and others who have been adversely impacted by New Jersey’s unjust cannabis policies on issues such as regulating sales, expunging past records, home cultivation rights, and more.

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Policy Legislation Cultivation Legalization 143

NORML

JANUARY 27, 2020

Hearing details : Wednesday 1/29/20 @ 2:30PM House Minority Caucus Room 411 Legislative Avenue Dover, DE 19901. Patients are legally permitted to cultivate medical cannabis in about half of the states that regulate its use and distribution. No state has repealed home cultivation, and there has never been a serious push to do so.

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Access Cultivation Patients Strains 205

Veriheal

AUGUST 3, 2021

On Wednesday, June 30, Governor Tom Wolf (D) of Pennsylvania signed medical cannabis legislation amendments into effect. The newly signed legal framework will boost medical cannabis purchase limits, as well as prolong specific policies that were imposed on a temporary basis when the coronavirus (COVID-19) health crisis initially erupted.

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Legislation Patients Supply Chain Dispensary 98

NORML

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Meanwhile, those who hold the lucrative cultivation, processing, and dispensary licenses are finding new ways to profit, primarily by selling to out of state investors. A Patients’ Bill of Rights for Medical Cannabis will be offered to legislators as a proposed Resolution. Patients have faced lost jobs and needless DUI charges.

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Patients Marijuana Programs Events 254

Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 18, 2021

Among the many changes that this new legislation brought were amendments to and expansion of New York’s lawful off-duty conduct law to protect cannabis use by employees when they are not on the job. Such policies must be made available to current employees prior to enactment, and to prospective employees at the time of any job offer.

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Legislation Legalization Marijuana Recreational 105

Veriheal

JANUARY 26, 2021

The 2021 legislative session is set to see some changes to cannabis policy. Cultivation of any amount of cannabis in the state of Washington without a license is considered a felony punishable by five years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine. Legal Cultivation at Home. The Key Changes Activists are Pursuing.

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Policy Cultivation Agriculture Cannabis 80

Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The Medical Cannabis Bill 399/2015, which aims to regulate the cultivation of industrial hemp and medical cannabis, and which has attracted opposition from a group of right-wing policymakers, is waiting for the deliberation of the Bureau of the Chamber of Deputies to advance to the next stage.

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NORML

MARCH 3, 2020

The bill has gone through several versions to include improvements through the years, taking what we’ve learned from other states successes and failures, aiming to create the gold standard of marijuana legalization legislation. Allows for home cultivation for personal use. Adequate improvements to our medical program.

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Programs Legislation Cultivation Legalization 205

MJ Business Attorneys

JULY 24, 2019

The surge in cannabis policy reform across the country and world may have caused many to anticipate a heavy blow to illegal operators, and black-market activity did experience an initial decline. Illegal cannabis stores in Toronto avoid shut-downs by taking advantage of gaps in legislation. billion, a $500 million reduction from 2017.

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Legalization Marijuana Policy Business 178

Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 8, 2021

5 AUG 2021 Legislative Council Legal and Social Issues Committee (Vic). This inquiry was an examination into how Victorian cannabis policy can be improved. In addition, group cultivation would allow small groups of adults to grow cannabis collectively. PUBLISHER Parliament of Victoria. ISBN : 978-1-922425-38-6.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 11, 2019

cannabis industry’s first comprehensive model federal legislation to legalize interstate and international medical and adult-use cannabis in the United States. cannabis market will be worth over $66 billion by 2025, but without a smart and welcoming trade policy, Americans will not see the benefits of ending prohibition.

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Legislation Policy Cannabis Patients 75

Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Pakistani Minister of Science and Technology Shibli Faraz has announced the presentation of the policy for growing cannabis in the country by December of this year. The Minister of Science then assured that strict legislation would be adopted to put an end to the export of these raw materials. Newsweed France reports. Faraz reaffirmed.

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Policy Cultivation Oil Legislation 52

SpeedWeed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A legislative panel assembled to study the legalization of recreational marijuana in Maryland began work last Wednesday, laying out plans to draft a referendum ballot measure for next year’s general election. The bipartisan legislative group was appointed by House Speaker Adrienne Jones in July. View original article.

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Legislation Legalization Policy Cannabis 77

NORML

JANUARY 12, 2020

With the 2020 legislative session already in full swing in many states, NORML chapters across the country are organizing lobby days to advocate for sensible reform policies in their state. On January 16 , join Delaware NORML at 10:30am at the 2nd Floor Senate Hearing Room – Legislative Hall in Dover.

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Decriminalization Legislation Patients Policy 130