Jan 30 2024
State Representative Walt Brooks (R) has filed House Bill 389, with the measure assigned to the House Rules Committee.
Specifically, the bill would authorize “closed-door medical cannabis pharmacies”, described as “means a facility operated by a home delivery medical cannabis pharmacy for delivering cannabis or a medical cannabis product.”
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Jan 29 2024
Filed by State Representative Lauren Davis along with 11 cosponsors, House Bill 2320 was given approval today by the House Committee on Regulated Substances & Gaming in a 9 to 2 vote.
The measure initially would have prohibited “licensed cannabis retailers from selling cannabis concentrates with a tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration greater than 35 percent” to anyone who is under 25, even though the legal marijuana age is 21. An exception would in with a medical cannabis endorsement who may continue to sell these products to qualifying patients and designated providers who are entered in the Medical Cannabis Authorization Database.”
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Jan 29 2024
Today the House Regulated Substances and Gaming Committee voted 7 to 4 to pass House Bill 2194. The measure would legalize the personal cultivation of up to four marijuana plants for everyone 21 and older.
The measure clarifies that “no more than 10 plants may be produced at any one time on the premises of a single housing unit, regardless of the number of residents living on the premises of the housing unit.”
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Jan 29 2024
“It’s been nearly two years since we’ve asked the good people of Oregon to meticulously rank some of their state’s best products”, says High Times. “Now check out the new generation of winners, from returning fan favorites to brand new competitors that seriously impressed our judges.”
Below is a list of the winners for each major category.
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Jan 29 2024
Anthony Armour joined the DEA in 2004. In 2019, after 15 years of service, Armour was fired after testing positive for a minute amount of THC during a random drug test.
Last year Armour filed a lawsuit against the agency with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Armour and his attorney claimed that the DEA had no legal standing to fire him given he was using a legal product (hemp, and hemp-derived CBD, was legalized nationwide in 2018, with products allowed to contain up to 0.3% THC).
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Jan 29 2024
As the DEA continues to consider whether or not marijuana should be rescheduled, federal lawmakers continue to push a variety of bills designed to reform marijuana laws through the legislative branch.
Below is a look at the legislation in both the US Senate and House of Representatives with the most sponsors.
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Jan 29 2024
Senator Gillibrand and Congressmember Nadler were joined in Harlem by Senator Cordell Cleare, New York City Council Member Yusef Salaam, New York State Assemblymember Eddie Gibbs, New York State Assemblymember Rev. Al Taylor, Executive Director of Empire State NORML David Holland, business leaders, and other marijuana reform advocates.
“The highly stigmatized substance is currently classified in the same category as heroin and a more dangerous category than fentanyl or cocaine — even though marijuana is not associated with the same acute health risks and potential for addiction and abuse”, says a press release from Senator Gillibrand’s office. “Additionally, people of color are more likely to have criminal records for marijuana possession and to face needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities as a result.”
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Jan 29 2024
Filed by Senator Shawn Bordeaux (D), Senate Bill 141 was “first read in Senate and referred to Senate Health and Human Services” on January 24. It has been scheduled for a hearing in the committee for later today.
South Dakota legalized medical marijuana in 2021. The law legally recognizes “nonresident cardholders”, described as a person diagnosed “with a debilitating medical condition”, who is “not a resident of this state or who has been a resident of this state for fewer than forty-five days”, who was “issued a currently valid registry identification card or its equivalent by another state, district, territory, commonwealth, insular possession of the United States, or country recognized by the United States that allows the person to use cannabis for medical purposes in the jurisdiction of issuance”.
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Jan 28 2024
Although 20 of the National Football League’s 32 teams (62%) are from states that have legalized recreational marijuana, 100% of the teams that made it to the championship matches are from one of those states.
The Kansas City Chiefs are from Missouri, and the Baltimore Ravens are from Maryland; both legalized recreational marijuana via the initiative process in 2022.
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Jan 27 2024
On Thursday workers at the Trulieve Cannabis Corp central Phoenix production facility voted 37 to 4 in favor of unionizing with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 99.
“The successful union election at Trulieve Magnolia is the first for Arizona agricultural workers in the cannabis industry, and only the second-ever union election to be administered by the Arizona Agricultural Labor Relations Board (AERB)”, states a UFCW press release. “Established in 1993, the AERB’s statutes are patterned after the National Labor Relations Act, which specifically excludes agricultural workers from its jurisdiction.”
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