Author: Ethan McLeod
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After I-81, How Legal Are Shrooms Now In D.C.? A Local Attorney Explains.
District voters took a big leap forward on the drug-liberalization front last year with the overwhelming passage of Initiative 81. The ballot initiative directed D.C. Police to cut back on the enforcement of laws that criminalize the planting, growing, distributing and buying of plant-based psychedelics, and for prosecutors to cease charging residents for such activities.…
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Can Maryland Expunge All Possession Charges After Legalizing Cannabis? It’s Complicated, Officials Say.
As advocates and legislators gear up for Maryland’s most serious legalization push yet, officials are giving some overdue focus to the other side of the coin: what to do about decades’ worth of prior cannabis possession charges and convictions? “It is an incredibly large number of cases that have been identified that go all the…
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New Poll Shows Marylanders Still Strongly Support Cannabis Legalization
Three-fifths of Marylanders support legalizing recreational cannabis use while one-third are opposed, according to the latest polling out of Goucher College. The results, shared on Tuesday, represent a slight dip from seven months ago, when 67% of surveyed adults said they supported allowing recreational use, in line with policies across 18 states and the District…
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Hopkins Scores $4 Million From NIH To Study Psilocybin As Tool To Quit Smoking
With top medical research institutions now giving regular and serious consideration to the medical utility of psychedelics, the federal government is finally putting some money behind the movement. Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Medicine announced Monday that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will provide nearly $4 million to help researchers study how psilocybin, known more colloquially…
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Maryland: Health Experts Talk Cannabis Potency And Youth Use At Legalization Workgroup Session
Experts advised a panel of Maryland lawmakers on Wednesday to prioritize public health education on cannabis and to prevent large companies from shaping regulations if and when the state opts to legalize the plant. “I think we’re in this public health experiment which is still in its very early stages, especially related to high-potency products,…
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Maryland: Regulators Advance Discount Cannabis Plan For Vets And Medicaid Recipients
Maryland cannabis regulators have advanced a framework for providing discounted cannabis to eligible registered patients, including veterans and state Medicaid recipients. The Policy Committee of the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission unanimously approved a proposed framework for the Compassionate Use Fund on Thursday. The fund, established through a broader industry-expansion bill in 2018, allows registered patients…
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Maryland: Annapolis Lobbyists Launch Trade Group For Minority-Owned Cannabis Businesses
As Maryland’s momentum builds for full-on cannabis legalization in 2022, a pair of lobbyists from both sides of the aisle have formed an association to represent minority business interests in the industry. As first reported by Maryland Matters this week, former Maryland Republican Party chair John Kane and ex-Prince George’s County Del. Michael Arrington, a…
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Maryland: MSOs Trulieve, PharmaCann Clean Up At Latest MMCC Meeting
Out-of-state cannabis giants once again grew their territory within Maryland’s medical cannabis industry on Thursday with approval from state regulators. The biggest winner from Thursday’s meeting of the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission (MMCC) was Trulieve, a Florida-based company with retail, growing and processing operations in 11 states. In an ongoing trend of consolidation, commissioners unanimously…
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‘Cannabis Clubs’ Crop Up In Virginia, Legal Or Not
Now in month three of the legalization era, Virginians are enjoying newfound freedoms with recreational weed: they can grow up to four plants at home, consume in private at their leisure and give it away to friends and relatives age 21 and over. And while a sanctioned recreational industry is still a ways off, that…
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Maryland Approves Slew Of License Transfers To Multistate Operators, More Edibles
Look for more edible options coming to dispensary shelves in Maryland soon. The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission (MMCC) on Thursday approved three more licensed processors to produce and distribute edible cannabis products across the state. The trio includes Eastern Shore-based MaryMed, a vertically integrated subsidiary of Minnesota-based multistate operator Vireo Health International; Culta, another vertically…
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