Category: legislation
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SD Lawmakers Quietly Pull Medical Cannabis Arrest Bill From Agenda
Lawmakers Quietly Pull Medical Cannabis Arrest Bill From Agenda By Jason Karimi | WeedPress: The Paper Trail PIERRE, S.D. — A controversial bill that would have expanded police authority to arrest registered medical cannabis patients was quietly pulled from the South Dakota Legislature’s agenda this week — a move that signals mounting resistance to efforts…
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New SD Bill Would Let Police Arrest Medical Cannabis Patients Over Misplaced Cards
SB 95 would allow police to arrest otherwise compliant medical marijuana patients in South Dakota solely for failing to immediately produce a physical card or card number, overriding existing statutory protections 🏛️ South Dakota SB 95 — What It Does By Jason Karimi Bill Summary: Require that a medical cannabis cardholder provide a card or…
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S. Rep. No. 91-613 (1969)
S. Rep. No. 91-613 (1969) is the Senate Judiciary Committee report accompanying S. 3246, the bill that became Title II and III of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 (Public Law 91-513), also known as the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). This is the foundational federal law classifying drugs into schedules and…
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Lawmakers Filing Bills In Anticipation Of Federal Schedule 3 Change
Weedpress has been preparing to be ahead of the curve on this highway of federal law changes. Now that everyone else is trying to play catch up, and failing, WeedPress continues to stand by for anyone in the country wishing to gain clarity on the administrative procedures and legal necessities of this complex regulatory policy…
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Iowa Lawmakers To Put Kratom Into Schedule One: SCOOP
Kratom, and its derivatives are being placed in Schedule One by lawmakers in Iowa. This is a developing story.
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Iowa House Reworking Psilocybin Legislation: Scoop
Multiple legislative contacts tell WeedPress the bill that passed the House 84-6 last year to allow psilocybin mushrooms is being reworked. House File 978 is an Iowa bill to implement psilocybin regulation at the state level to create a state-regulated psilocybin program despite ongoing federal prohibition. HF 978, which passed the House 84-6, would establish…
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New Action On Iowa Marijuana Bills Posted
New Action based on your list: Marijuana example. You requested to be notified of the following actions or changes to your watched bills and rules: Legislation HF 995A bill for an act relating to the issuance of a medical cannabidiol registration card to a person who is not a resident of Iowa.(Formerly HSB 240.)01/14/2026Referred to Health…
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Nebraska Legislature Is Now In Session
The Nebraska Legislature is back in session. Senators have just 60 working days to conduct committee hearings and debate new priority bills, with bill introductions happening within the first ten days. Session Schedule and Duties According to the official legislative calendar: The Nebraska Unicameral began Day 1 of the 109th Legislature’s Second Regular Session on…
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Ilhan Omar’s Office Called WeedPress For Help On Federal Exemption To State Cannabis Laws!!!!
Just a brief note, but I was asked this last week by Ilhan Omar’s Congressional office for info on a bill I wrote the bill summary for in 2021 that passed the Minnesota House. Read the bill here: House File 1023. The bill was introduced by Young Americans for Liberty endorsed House Rep Jeremy Munson.…
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Re: Ilhan’s Federal Exemption For State Hemp/Cannabis Industries In Minnesota
WeedPress note: Posting here at 4:20 am for quick reference to Maine (sched z) Colorado Georgia and Illinois (not scheduled) ND MN Arkansas North Carolina and Tennessee anomalies Here is the 1980s THC Therapeutic Research Act, upon which Minnesota’s Medical Cannabis Therapeutic Research Act was roughly based upon. https://www.scribd.com/document/226270524/Memorandum-to-Governor-s-Office-Re-Medical-Marijuana “For the purposes of this section, THC is…
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Why Ilhan Omar’s “Fed Exemption for Hemp” Has No Application Process
21 USC 822(d) has no application process. 21 USC 822(d) covers a class of activity, such as religious use of peyote. 21 USC 822(d) should be between a state and the federal administration, like it is between that church and the federal administration. There is no application, but a state attorney general…
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Petition To South Dakota Legislature Senate And House Leadership
Copy To: President of the South Dakota Senate Copy to: Speaker of the South Dakota House This petition is submitted pursuant to: South Dakota Constitution 0N-6-4§ 4: § 4. Right of petition and peaceable assembly. The right of petition, and of the people peaceably to assemble to consult for the common good and make known their opinions, shall never be abridged.…
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Federal Exception For Cannabis Legislation By Iowans For Medical Marijuana
Federal Exception for Cannabis Proposed Legislation 124E.27 Legal Task Force. The department shall convene a task force of legal experts to assist in executing the department’s responsibilities under 2020 Iowa Acts, chapter 1116, section 31 (protection of federal funding). Under state and federal controlled substances acts medical use of cannabis is inconsistent without interstate marketing approval or…
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2025 Iowa Legislative Update, Key Cannabis/Psilocybin Developments
2025 Iowa Legislative Session Update. There were several bills filed this session that would make changes to Chapter 124E: HF 950, HF 990 / SF 399, HF 995, and one that references Chapter 124E, HF 978. The bill that references Chapter 124E creates a new Chapter 124F, a medical psilocybin program. House File…
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