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Judge: fired medical cannabis patient can sue employer

Judge: fired medical cannabis patient can sue employer

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 17, 2017

Employers can be sued for refusing to hire applicants who tested positive for medical cannabis, a Connecticut federal judge ruled last week. In the case of Noffsinger v. SSC Niantic Operating Co., Katelin...

Social cannabis sales delayed in Maine

Social cannabis sales delayed in Maine

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 17, 2017

Maine will not make its February deadline for beginning the sales of social cannabis and will not be ready until next summer at the earliest, according to the committee tasked with implementing legalization....

Could a state-run bank for the cannabis industry be in California's future?

Could a state-run bank for the cannabis industry be in California’s future?

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 16, 2017

California government, financial and cannabis leaders met last week in a debate on whether a state-run bank could solve the cannabis industry’s banking problem. The 17-member group included representatives...

Feds study if cannabis leads to curbing opioid epidemic

Feds study if cannabis leads to curbing opioid epidemic

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 15, 2017

Last week, the National Institutes of Health awarded a $3.8 million grant to researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System, which marked the first time the U.S. Government...

Justice Department takes no action on cannabis research applicants

Justice Department takes no action on cannabis research applicants

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 15, 2017

The Justice Department under Attorney General Jeff Sessions blocked the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) from taking action on two dozen requests to grow cannabis for research. The DEA began accepting...

FDA acknowledges CBD's positive health effects, calls for feedback

FDA acknowledges CBD’s positive health effects, calls for feedback

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 15, 2017

FDA officials put out a call for comments in Monday’s Federal Register, seeking information about cannabidiol (CBD) and how the United Nation’s World Health Organization should designate it as a substance....

Judge reverses decision on cannabis distribution in Nevada

Judge reverses decision on cannabis distribution in Nevada

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 14, 2017

The decision which would allow other entities besides liquor distributors in Nevada to distribute social cannabis, was effectively reversed. A Nevada judge on Friday sided with the Independent Alcohol...

States begin crackdown on black market cannabis

States begin crackdown on black market cannabis

August 14, 2017

Officials from states where cannabis is legal suspect unlawful trafficking places the industry at risk. Social cannabis states are trying to clamp down on those smuggling the plant across state borders,...

Expanded cannabis distribution rights approved in Nevada

Expanded cannabis distribution rights approved in Nevada

August 11, 2017

The Nevada Department of Taxation decided there are an inadequate number of liquor distributors interested in transporting cannabis to retail establishments, opening the business up to others who may be...

Mass. officials begin crackdown on cannabis-impaired driving

Mass. officials begin crackdown on cannabis-impaired driving

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 9, 2017

Massachusetts officials are vowing to crack down on cannabis-impaired driving as the state prepares for full implementation of its social cannabis law. State law enforcement said Thursday they are increasing...

Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington

State leaders rebuke AG Sessions’ criticism of legal cannabis

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 8, 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent letters with “serious questions” to the governors of Washington, Colorado, and Oregon on existing cannabis legislation last week, and now state officials have rebuked...

Task force report does not make the case for AG Sessions' cannabis crackdown

Task force report does not make the case for AG Sessions’ cannabis crackdown

Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen August 7, 2017

Attorney General Sessions’ Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety came up with no new conclusions or recommendations to forward the anti-cannabis policies, the Associated Press reported Friday....

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