Category: Cannabis Law News

Zimbabwe, Netherlands & Israel amongst others . Definitely a firm on the move.

If only every state had an organisation like this !

Portland, OR — At its monthly meeting on March 21, 2019 the Commissioners of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission accepted the findings of a State of Oregon Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) and denied the application for a producer marijuana license by Earth People’s Garden, LLC.  All five of the attending commission members voted in favor of issuing a final order upholding the license denial.

“Hogan Lovells Joins Ninth Circuit Fight Over Seized Hemp” reports the Recorder. Not a day goes by in 2019 without mention of a white shoe firm getting into the action with regard to hemp ( mainly hemp) or cannabis.

Things have been piling up this week so we’re in need of another digest especially with regard to the NJ proposed Monday vote which is beginning to resemble Coney Island’s Cyclone ride.

Rep Ed Perlmutter has stated… . “With 97.7 percent of the U.S. population living in a state where voters have legalized some form of adult recreational, medical or limited-medical use of marijuana, congressional inaction is no longer an option,” Perlmutter said. “And with broad, bipartisan support in the House, I look forward to the SAFE Banking Act continuing to move forward in the Financial Services Committee and on the floor of the House.”

The measures were sent to the state House for consideration.

Please forward your comments to the Liquor and Cannabis Board by mail, e-mail, or fax

NJ.com reports, “Monday could be the day when the Legislature takes a historic vote to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use in New Jersey.Or it could be the day when Democratic leaders concede defeat in convincing enough colleagues to get on board, setting the legalization effort back months and raising doubts about the fate of one of Gov. Phil Murphy’s central campaign promises.”

Florida medical cannabis patients are officially able to buy and consume smokable cannabis products after Republican Gov. Rick DeSantis signed legislation this week overturning the state’s controversial smoking ban, NBC reports.

Published last week in the Kight on Cannabis blog. Rod writes, “In the “BMA Advisory: Acceptance Criteria for Cannabidiol (CBD) Oil and Products Containing CBD“, a copy of which is embedded below, the USPS acknowledges the legal status of hemp derived CBD and provides temporary “acceptance criteria ” For demonstrating when a mailing is compliant with the 2014 Farm Act. According to the USPS, a mailing is compliant when it contains the following documentation”

The Transnational Institute (TNI) an international research and advocacy institute has produced a report with partners that says amongst other things, ” The ECDD recommendations also reveal problematic underlying evaluation methods and scheduling procedures along with a very questionable rationale for keeping cannabis in Schedule I.”

Our London correspondent, Mark Taylor, forwarded us this tweet from the FAAT think tank (International think & do tank. We address and change the policies of controlled #drugs, plants, products or substances. Paris, Barcelona, Geneva) overnight………… Tweeted soon after this initial message from FAAAT, the result of the meeting via a tweet from CND. They’ve voted for yet more delays on a decision.

Want to grow medical cannabis in Guernsey ? This is what you need to know.

A federal lawsuit says Pennsylvania State Police acted recklessly when troopers used a bulldozer to pursue a 51-year-old Grateful Dead fan caught growing marijuana on public land, killing him when he wound up under the machine’s treads.

“The legal cannabis industry is still relatively new in this country and quickly changing,” Hauser tells the Legal Intelligencer “As more investment capital comes in, as competition from the legal Canadian companies comes in, as companies are quickly trying to gain a national presence, as a result, there is a lot of consolidation.”

On one hand, or should we say foot, the Washington state Senate has passed a wide-reaching expungement bill that would vacate cannabis convictions for tens of thousands in the state. Meanwhile on the other foot two home grow companion bills in the state’s House and Senate have failed to advance past key legislative deadlines

Republican Gov, Kevin Stitt, Thursday signed a measure known as the “unity bill” because it’s supported by various factions of the cannabis industry. The measure received bipartisan support in the state House and Senate.