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

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! ” At a more local level, the decriminalization policy in Dayton, Ohio went into effect this week. Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state.

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Legislation Hemp Compliance Compliance 189

NORML

JANUARY 25, 2020

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Licensed dispensaries are expected to be operational in Missouri by this spring. Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state. CO resident? GA resident?

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Legislation Decriminalization Safety Cultivation 188

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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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 192

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 199

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 193

NORML

MARCH 8, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! 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. AL resident? AR resident?

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Legislation Patients Access Seed-To-Sale 192

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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NORML

MAY 24, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Governor Jared Polis (D) of Colorado signed legislation into law that allows physicians to recommend medical cannabis for any condition for which an opiate would otherwise be prescribed. The group then withdrew the measure so they can amend the language.

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Legislation Hemp Access Patients 191

NORML

FEBRUARY 29, 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 2359, to reduce barriers to employment for those harmed by the War on Drugs.

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Legislation Decriminalization Edibles Patients 160

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 166

NORML

MARCH 23, 2023

"Members of the DC City government continue to prioritize policies that both advance and protect the freedoms of responsible cannabis consumers. The post District of Columbia: Legislation Expanding Medical Cannabis Access Enacted Into Law appeared first on NORML.

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NORML

MAY 17, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Medical cannabis sales kicked off in Arkansas last Friday as the first dispensary opened its doors. Governor Kevin Stitt (R) of Oklahoma signed legislation into law to permit the retail sale of hemp and hemp-derived CBD products. California. CA resident?

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Legislation Hemp Compliance Compliance 166

NORML

MARCH 15, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt (R) signed legislation into law that would strengthen and clarify medical cannabis patient protections. Send a message to your federal lawmakers in support of this important legislation. CA resident? HI resident?

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Legislation Hemp Compliance Compliance 175

Illinois News Joint

OCTOBER 10, 2024

IDFPR cites the explosive growth by stating that 82 new dispensaries open for business in the last year, the single-largest expansion of cannabis dispensaries since the program first started with the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act (CRTA) in 2014. Find detailed information about this topic here.)

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Seed-To-Sale Data Dispensary Agriculture 111

NORML

MAY 12, 2020

Years later and after countless hours devoted by herself and other advocates at Virginia NORML, the state’s first medical cannabis dispensaries will finally begin opening dispensary doors to patients this summer. Tamara Netzel and Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring at the Virginia 2020 Legislative Cannabis Summit.

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NORML

MAY 14, 2020

.” NORML Legal Committee member Tom Dean said: “There is a massive and palpable void left in Mikel’s absence that is felt across the entire movement, from consumers to dispensary owners and everyone in between. ” NORML State Policies Coordinator Carly Wolf said: “Mikel’s passing is a huge loss.

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Advocacy Policy Education Legalization 362

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 124

Illinois News Joint

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In coordination with the Cannabis Regulation Oversight Office (CROO) and legislators, IDFPR has begun efforts to allow medical patients to receive their medical tax rate at any dispensary in Illinois. This policy would benefit medical patients by giving greater access and reducing burdens for purchasing cannabis.

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Dispensary Patients Access Legislation 116

NORML

APRIL 22, 2020

In others, regulators have either relaxed protocols or moved forward with new, emergency rules to facilitate expanded access – such as permitting patients to seek telemedicine appointments and allowing dispensaries to permit curbside pick-up and home delivery. ” You can find the full Senate letter here.

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NORML

APRIL 7, 2020

Rather, they reported that cases “were concentrated in states where consumers do not have legal access to recreational marijuana dispensaries. An accompanying editorial, “Marijuana legislation and electronic cigarette- or vaping-associated lung injury,” also appears online here.

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Vaping Legalization Concentrates Access 277

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. Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 170, to expand access to medical cannabis in Delaware. DE resident?

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Legislation Decriminalization Cultivation Patients 104

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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Veriheal

MARCH 19, 2025

Now, it seems that numerous medical marijuana dispensaries in South Dakota are closing their doors. In this article, youll discover the complicated history of legal cannabis in South Dakota, why recreational cannabis failed despite voters’ wishes, and why some medical dispensaries in South Dakota are now closing their doors.

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NORML

JANUARY 27, 2020

Hearing details : Wednesday 1/29/20 @ 2:30PM House Minority Caucus Room 411 Legislative Avenue Dover, DE 19901. For some patients, proximity to a dispensary can often be a challenge as they must drive long distances to access medical cannabis. In almost all cases, these provisions have led to few incidences of abuse or diversion.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 1, 2021

Nevada Current reports… As the Nevada Legislature debates a variety of cannabis-related measures, dissension among dispensary owners could impede efforts to take Nevada’s fledgling weed industry to the next level, says Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom. . Segerblom: Weed infighting threatens vision of cannabis mecca .

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 11, 2022

The measure also calls on the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division , the state’s regulator of marijuana businesses, to “balance the amount of influence that the marijuana industry has” on pot-related policy and rulemaking. BILL SUMMARY. Improve Marijuana Industry Regulation. 2022 Regular Session. 2022a_149_01.

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Legislation Seed-To-Sale Compliance Compliance 105

NORML

OCTOBER 2, 2019

During the previous months, Las Vegas NORML traversed the Battle Born State’s dispensaries, collecting signatures from medical patients and consumers alike in support of the surprising amount of monumental federal cannabis reform legislation, many of which would positively affect the lives of the consumers themselves.

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Advocacy Legislation Collective Access 194

Veriheal

JUNE 27, 2023

CAURD (Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensaries) dispensaries are slow to open across the state of New York, causing a backup in the cannabis supply chain. While many people are ready and waiting to open a cannabis dispensary in New York, CAURD licensees must open before others enter the legal adult cannabis space.

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Legislation Retail Supply Chain Dispensary 97

Veriheal

JANUARY 26, 2021

The 2021 legislative session is set to see some changes to cannabis policy. Activists and organizers supporting a change in Washington’s cannabis policy are hoping to tackle some key issues such as adult-use home cultivation, social equality, medical cannabis excise tax, and establishing a cannabis commission.

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NORML

JANUARY 29, 2020

Starting within the first few days of the year, Las Vegas NORML hosted their monthly meeting with a very special guest and a representative who’s become a huge legislative champion for cannabis, Assemblyman Steve Yeager. ” describes Saglibene.

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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.

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Veriheal

APRIL 29, 2024

It sets up the retail side with dispensaries and how we would do that.” This legislation will create a cannabis program run by the Louisiana Department of Health. There has been some backlash regarding the proposal, but legislators are determined to push forward. “We This is a very simple bill,” he stated to the committee. “It

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NORML

JANUARY 31, 2020

Proponents of cannabis reform in Kentucky had an opportunity to have their voices heard at the legislative level on January 22nd and 23rd. Jason Nemes, R-Louisville, or as the emerging trend is becoming with Kentucky’s legislators, thanking them for their support. They are there to represent their constituents, after all.

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Illinois News Joint

JUNE 22, 2023

The extension comes on the heels of the spring legislative session and the failed cannabis omnibus, which included curbside pickup provisions for medical patients and recreational consumers, as well as drive-through operations. This is the second extension of the variance that has been permitting curbside pickup since January.

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