Category: Federal
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Lawsuit Against Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission Calls Its Racial Equity Attempts “a Sham”
A lawsuit has been filed against the Natalie M. LaPrade Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission on behalf of MediGrow LLC, a Prince George’s County-based cannabis company. The lawsuit, filed late last month, demands Maryland’s federal court address the MMCC’s application for medicinal cannabis growers and processors—specifically its equity questions—and says that the questions “are arbitrary, capricious,…
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Elizabeth Warren’s Cannabis Plan, Revealed
Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a new plan for cannabis reform that is sure to excite those who have been clamoring for the federal government’s outdated policies to be updated. The plan, titled, “A Just and Equitable Cannabis Industry,” has an introduction that reads, “It’s long past time to legalize marijuana and create a cannabis industry…
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2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates’ Views on Cannabis: A Guide
Cannabis, while it is not one of the main topics this election season, is one where most Americans agree. A majority of Americans (66%) now support cannabis legalization, according to a Gallup poll released October 2019. In 2010, Gallup recorded that nationwide support for cannabis legalization was at just 44%. Meanwhile, 91% of U.S. adults…
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When It Comes To Hemp, Maryland Is Somewhat ‘Open For Business’
While Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia push for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to speed up its review of Virginia’s Plan to Regulate Hemp Production, Maryland’s move into the world of industrialized hemp remains more circumspect. Maryland’s Industrial Hemp Research Pilot Program is only now in its second year and…
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Trump Targets Medicinal Cannabis, Proposes Death Penalty for Drug Dealers
President Donald Trump began last week by suggesting the United States use the death penalty for people who use and deal drugs and proposing the removal of federal protections to states running medicinal cannabis programs. And that was all before we learned that former Trump advisor Roger Stone would have his prison sentencing recommendation reduced…
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Catch the Smoke: Dec. 26, 2023 First denial for I-71 gifting store In the last days of 2023, ABC released the year’s final dispositions on the license applications. Four more businesses were approved including a testing laboratory. But, more significantly the first complete denial of an unlicensed applicant was cemented. LOCAL’D was denied their application…