Tag: Marijuana Moment
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Truck Drivers Can Use Cannabis Under Schedule 3 Absent Policy Interventions
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/drug-testing-industry-group-is-sounding-the-alarm-about-marijuana-rescheduling-as-trump-plans-action/ I’m now a solo advocate and quit representing other people as the entire weed movement and all its groups desire criminality, rebellion, and cool kid ego games and I can’t do it any longer. When I say that, as cannabis advocates, we cannot unleash regulations that don’t respect public health and safety, or programs…
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Senator John Thune: Federal Solution To State Medical Marijuana Laws In Hands Of State, Not Congress
Senator John Thune’s office had me come install a TV mount for them and while there I asked a question. I got a letter in response that wasn’t a form letter at all. Below is the recording I made of my phone call to the state Attorney Generals office. I am also contacting the governor…
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Standing Granted In Religious Cannabis Lawsuit
A case I’m working on for a religious cannabis lawsuit demanding equal access to state authorized medical dispensaries via some remedy entailing a separate process for religious users to apply for a religious card has been granted standing following the state’s motion to dismiss. The case will now move on to the merits. I am…
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Religious Cannabis Exemption Iowa Research
Government cannot favor religious activity over secular, or visa versa. The judicial cannon of constitutional avoidance means an unconstitutional statute is only unconstitutional if it is actually applied to someone in an unconstitutional way. Someone has to be injured by it, or it’s never going to be held unconstitutional. The problem with…
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Updated Draft To Dismiss Schedule One Cannabis Charges, by Jason Karimi
Here’s the fully footnoted draft and is worth downloading as the below text does not include formatting or footnotes: And no, I do not present this as perfected nor even legally correct as I am not an attorney. All feedback welcome at this blog in the comments. I will edit and vet this – it still…
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Patient Stories Don’t Legalize As Well As Moral Arguments
“While sharing personal anecdotes has historically been a major factor in changing hearts and minds, people posting more generalized, character judgment-based arguments was a more clear harbinger for state-level cannabis reform. “Marijuana legalization is a highly unusual topic in how a bipartisan consensus was reached in a matter of years while the American society was otherwise…
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Activists Ask Governors To Request Federal Protections For Interstate Commerce
Looks I’m not the only one tired of being falsely accused of being a federal criminal due to my state medical marijuana cardholder status. Marijuana Moment explains: The Alliance for Sensible Markets campaign is currently circulating a sign-on letter for those interested in putting pressure on the governors of California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington to make the…
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The Minnesota GOP Senate Backdoor-Legalizes Weed Smoking
Minnesota has recently relegalized smoking cannabis during a recent special legislative session! Starting March 1st of next year, you can light up cannabis flower legally in Minnesota — with a prescription doctor’s recommendation. While smoking medical cannabis will still remain potentially illegal under federal law for now, Minnesota’s lawmakers are still currently working on how…
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Lawsuit Against Governor Reynolds A Success: State’s Motion To Dismiss Explains Why This Is A Victory For Iowa PATIENT Advocates
Here’s the latest on our efforts to get the State of Iowa to properly and competently apply for federal exemption from federal marijuana laws to protect Iowa marijuana patients and industry supporters. On April 29, Kim Reynolds, Defendant, filed this motion to dismiss the lawsuit on the grounds that the lawsuit is now moot, since…
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Hawaii Lawmakers Seek Marijuana Exemption From DEA While Also Requesting Legal Psilocybin Plan
As previously reported by us all here at WeedPress, a third state has officially joined attempts to request federal exemption to state marijuana laws. First initiated by Iowa advocate Carl Olsen, Iowa, Minnesota, and now Hawaii officials have endorsed demanding that state marijuana laws be exempt from federal laws and regulations. A previously little-known code,…
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Hawaii Officials Discuss Ways State Can Petition DEA For Exception To Federal Marijuana Schedule I Classification
The roughly 2,000 Facebook followers and email subscribers here at WeedPress should be intrigued. On Tuesday this week, Hawaii’s Health, Human Services, and Homelessness committee discussed Hawaii House Concurrent Resolution 132. HCR 132 directs Hawaii officials to begin the process of “requesting the Department of Health to submit a request to the Drug Enforcement Administration…
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These Grants Were WITHHELD (!!!) From States For Violating Federal Marijuana Laws In 2020
The following four links provide all the more reason for Iowa to exempt it’s medical marijuana patients from federal laws using the exemption process DEA makes available to marijuana advocates, industry leaders, and affected patients. New York v. United States, February 26, 2020 Eligibility for Federal Grants, Maine Commissioner, May 6, 2020 Federal mental health…
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Marijuana Moment Reports: Iowa Officials To Seek Federal Marijuana Exemption From DEA
I told you so for ten years: Iowa will be the first state to petition for federal marijuana exemptions. Carl Olsen has spent his entire life’s work to make this thing work the way it is intended. Even when government officials are thoroughly incompetent, this story shows a citizen can always keep government in check.…
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Iowa’s GAME CHANGING WORK On Federal Marijuana Laws Being Covered Tomorrow Over At Marijuana Moment
Follow us at WeedPress for links to tomorrow’s article! This is exactly the press coverage we need to get the word out!
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Where Vice Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris Stands On Marijuana
Marijuana Moment has the details.
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Virginia Officially Becomes 27th State To Decriminalize Marijuana Possession Or Use! No Jail Time, No Financial Ruin!
Details here thanks to Marijuana Moment. My kids, and friend’s families, will not suffer the tyranny of shame, judgment, and sabotage from their elderly evil community for much longer, or there will, be hell, to pay.
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USDA Approves Hemp Plans For Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa Thursday
Marijuana Moment has the details
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Federal Reserve Sends Reminder That Hemp Businesses Can Get Bank Accounts
Marijuana Moment’s Kyle Jaeger has the full details. Here’s an excerpt: But as others have recognized, the central bank district said that despite “the change in the legal treatment of hemp, many bankers have been reluctant to work with the industry because of regulatory concerns.” To that end, the the Board of Governors of…
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DEVELOPING: Illinois To Legalize Recreational Marijuana “Nearly Right Away” Says New Governor | Get Ready For A Midwest Shake-Up
Pritzker wants to legalize recreational marijuana ‘nearly right away’ in Illinois Pritzker wants to legalize recreational marijuana ‘nearly right away’ in Illinois Pritzker wants to legalize recreational marijuana ‘nearly right away’ in Illinois By: Nic Flosi Posted: Nov 07 2018 04:18PM CST Video Posted: Nov 07 2018 09:56PM CST Updated: Nov 07 2018 10:08PM CST CHICAGO…
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Senator Paul Ryan: “There’s a lot of industrial uses for hemp that I understand from talking to Mitch McConnell is a big deal to Kentucky agriculture”
…So says Tom Angell’s Marijuana Moment, one of the if not the best sources of marijuana news nationwide.
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SAM Just Retweeted Tom Angell
College age use of marijuana use is at a 30-year high and the pot industry still says youth use is declining in the age of legalization. 😳 https://t.co/UYLMplTplR — Smart Approaches to Marijuana (@learnaboutsam) September 7, 2018 Follow WeedPress on Twitter
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