Category: Outlaw Report
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Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission Finally Awards Grower and Processor Approvals
The much-anticipated Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission meeting where a number of growers and processors received Stage One pre-approvals for licenses went on for more than four hours. These licenses have been nearly two years in the making—the result of a 2018 law introduced to prioritize minority-owned businesses and begin to correct the fact that virtually…
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Hemp Smell Complaints in Baltimore County Inspire More Legislation
Community complaints about the smell emanating from hemp farms and unfounded claims that the odor is causing health problems for some in Baltimore County has again inspired legislation threatening Maryland’s “right-to-farm” laws. Last week, County Councilperson Wade Kach, a Republican representing Cockeysville, Maryland introduced Bill 94-20, preventing hemp farms from being more than 2,000 feet…
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Quick Hit: Meet Mia Mason, the Pro-Cannabis Candidate Going Up Against Andy Harris
Readers of The Outlaw Report know all about Congressman Andy Harrs, anti-cannabis politician to his core. Harris infamously is to blame for Washington D.C. legalizing cannabis but not being able to have a proper commercial cannabis industry and he is also something of a Covid truther and all-around drug reform spoiler sport as his attempts…
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Federal Court Of Special Appeals Rules in Favor Of Virginia Truck Driver With Weed In His Shoe
Earlier this month, The United States Court of Special Appeals Fourth Circuit in the Eastern District of Virginia issued a ruling in favor of a truck driver stopped for not having the proper permit and also charged with cannabis possession. The ruling came down on September 11, and explained why Jaison Feliciana, driving a bakery…
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Cannabis Commission’s Policy Committee Meeting; Maryland Dispensary Shake-Ups
The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission (MMCC) Policy Committee meeting from last week went deep on the complicated ins and outs of testing that even members of the committee were still wrapping their heads around. Primarily, this was about the ongoing development of a technical authority for testing medicinal cannabis and all that it entails. “The…
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Quick Hit: West Virginia Democratic Candidates’ Normalization of Cannabis Act
At Democrat candidate for West Virginia’s House of Delegates Chris Yeager’s hemp farm in Mason County, West Virginia, fellow House candidate Rusty Williams introduced The Normalization of Cannabis Act and streamed it to Facebook. Williams called The Normalization of Cannabis Act “the first piece of comprehensive cannabis legislation that we intend to introduce should we…
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Unpacking Racially Disproportionate Cannabis Arrests in D.C. and Baltimore
Earlier this month, The Washington Post published “D.C. legalized marijuana, but one thing didn’t change: Almost everyone arrested on pot charges is Black,” a lengthy report that crunched cannabis arrest numbers in the District and spoke to some of those affected by those arrests, which are occurring after D.C. legalized cannabis, has a medicinal cannabis…
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The Outlaw Report Podcast Episode 07: Anacostia Organics’ Linda Mercado Greene and MORE Act Fallout
We have an especially in-depth episode of The Outlaw Report this week, featuring host Scott Cecil in conversation with Linda Mercado Greene of Anacostia Organics. But before that, The Outlaw Report’s Brandon Soderberg talks—and rants—about the Democrats kicking the can on the The MORE Act and after the talk with Greene, Scott and Brandon also…
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Lance Lucas, Who Bribed Former Maryland Delegate For Medicinal Cannabis Licenses, Sentenced
Lance Lucas, the Baltimore businessman who pleaded guilty earlier this year for bribing former Maryland delegate Cheryl Glenn to gain favor for companies applying for medicinal cannabis licenses was sentenced last week. He was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison which will be followed by three years of supervised release. In July, Glenn was…
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Quick Hit: Virginia Man Punches State Trooper During Traffic Stop For Cannabis Smell
A September 16, 2020 NBC12 story titled, “VSP: Richmond man arrested after punching trooper in face.” is the kind of police stenography masquerading as journalism The Outlaw Report has criticized plenty before. It describes a stop in which a state trooper in Richmond, Virginia pulled over a man for speeding and then after saying he…
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House Vote on MORE Act Postponed Until After the Election
The House of Representatives decided to delay a planned vote on landmark cannabis legislation The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act (MORE) until after the election, citing the need to pass a Covid-19 relief package beforehand and concern that voting on a cannabis bill could be a political liability before the November election. Under the…
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Op-Ed: National Expungement Week of Action in the DMV
by Ray Dixon National Expungement Week (N.E.W.) is a non-cannabis specific awareness movement that facilitates expungement relief and wrap-around services to communities affected by the War on Drugs. The American Bar Association describes “expungement” as “the process by which a record of criminal conviction is destroyed or sealed from state or federal record.” An expungement…