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• Attorney pleads guilty in drug-trafficking conspiracy…”stored approximately 1,000 pounds of marijuana and cash proceeds at Morris’s Top Tier Law firm located on South Independence Boulevard in Virginia Beach” October 4, 2024
  NORFOLK, Va. – Matthew Taylor Morris, 38, a local attorney and resident of Virginia Beach, pled guilty to his role in a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of marijuana. According to court documents, beginning in at least January 2021, Donald Thomas Rogers, 35, of Portsmouth, the owner of a Federal Firearm Licensee (FFL), allegedly became […]
• Arizona Court Says Cannabis Users Must Actually Be Impaired To Be Punished For DUI October 4, 2024
  Header Image:The Hon. Andrew M. Jacobs Source:  Marijuana Moment & Arizona Mirror “This reinforces our understanding of the voters’ intent, expressed through their enactment of Proposition 207, that unimpaired driving after consuming marijuana cannot be penalized.” By Jim Small, Arizona Mirror The state can’t suspend someone’s driver’s license because they have THC in their bloodstream […]
• Former Stiiizy Inc. employee files suit, says company pays below minimum wage October 4, 2024
  Bloomberg.. A former Stiiizy Inc. employee said the cannabis company’s policy of paying hourly employees per trimmed marijuana plant often results in a rate below minimum wage, according to a lawsuit filed in California state court. Worker Christian Segura said Stiiizy paid him $2.50 per cannabis plant he took care of. He was on average […]
• NY Office of Cannabis Management: Attorney, Crystal Rodriguez-Dabney Appointed to CCB October 3, 2024
  The NY OCM’s latest staff changes include OCM Chief Equity Officer Update: OCM’s Chief Equity Officer, Damian Fagon, has announced his resignation from the agency, effective November 27, 2024. This announcement comes after conclusion of the NYS Inspector General investigation, which resulted in a determination that the allegations at issue for that investigation were unsubstantiated. Fagon […]
• Lawyer Dr Teresa Nicoletti Says Pharmacy Board of Australia’s New Compounding Rules “Are Plain Common Sense” October 3, 2024
  Cannabiz Australia has her thoughts (paywall)   Read at The ‘new’ compounding rules are just plain common sense
• Guyana’s Attorney General Directs Law Enforcement To No Longer Jail Cannabis Offenders October 3, 2024
  ICBC reports Guyana’s Attorney General Anil Nandlall recently cautioned law enforcement not to jail cannabis consumers in possession of less than 30 grams of cannabis in the South American country, stating that doing so is against the law. “The statement from the Attorney General follows a report of the Police arresting and locking up a […]
• German court prohibits GmbH business model with doctors in the field of medical cannabis October 3, 2024
  Source: The German Cannabis Business Association   09/25/2024 | The Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main has prohibited a limited liability company that described itself as “Germany’s leading platform for therapy with medical cannabis” from cooperating with doctors, according to the Hesse Medical Association. The GmbH had concluded contracts with doctors who undertook to present their work and […]
• German Law Firm Oppenhoff Hires Cannabis Expert Franziska Katterbach  October 3, 2024
    09/23/2024 | The commercial law firm Oppenhoff is strengthening its healthcare and M&A practice with Franziska Katterbach as a new partner at its Frankfurt office. Katterbach will join Oppenhoff on October 1, 2024 from Khiron Life Sciences, a medical cannabis company, reports Legal Tribune Online. She was previously Managing Director for Khiron’s European business and also worked for Canopy Growth, also […]
• Arkanasas Election Officials Say Medical Cannabis “Expansion Initiative” Has “Insufficient” Signatures. Arkansans for Patient Access (APA) Disagrees & Files Suit – Courts Says Recount Please October 3, 2024
  Marijuana Moment Just one day after Arkansas’s top elections official deemed that a medical marijuana legalization expansion initiative has “insufficient” signatures, the campaign behind that reform proposal has filed a lawsuit with the state Supreme Court contesting that determination. Last month, Arkansans for Patient Access (APA) turned in a final batch of petitions for the cannabis measure, […]
• Florida: Truelieve Sues Republican Party, TV Stations October 3, 2024
  “The GOP acted with actual malice, either knowingly or recklessly disregarding that the statements it published about Trulieve were false … and — when specifically put on notice of the truth and asked to retract — refusing to retract, because the GOP intends to dupe Florida voters into voting against a ballot initiative that would […]
• Paper – University of Malta – The effects of the recent legislation on the legalisation of cannabis : any room for further reform? September 30, 2024
  Well spotted by Lex Pelger You can read all his other amazing discoveries here. https://www.cannabinoidsandthepeople.whitewhalecreations.com/ Attard, Eliza (2024) Keywords: Cannabis — Law and legislation — Malta Marijuana — Law and legislation — Malta Drug legalization — Malta Issue Date: 2024 Citation: Attard, E. (2024). The effects of the recent legislation on the legalisation of cannabis: any […]
• MJ Biz Presentation: The Differences Between Cannabis Decontamination and Remediation: Analyzing the Latest Research September 29, 2024
  Tuesday, December 3 • 9:50 – 10:30 a.m. ET Jean Smith-Gonnell will be participating on the panel “The Differences Between Cannabis Decontamination and Remediation: Analyzing the Latest Research,” at the 13th Annual MJBizCon. She will be joined by panelists from McKinney Regulatory Science Advisors. This session will explore the critical distinctions between cannabis decontamination and […]
• The Sixth Annual NW Cannabis & Psychedelics Conference September 27, 2024
  It’s alread half way through before I found out about it on Linked In. As they say… For the record
• Hinshaw lawyer Mitchel Chargo Discusses How Native Tribes are Influencing U.S. Cannabis Policy and Creating New Revenue Opportunities September 25, 2024
  September 24, 2024 Hinshaw partner Mitchel Chargo was featured in a recent mg Magazine story discussing the significance of the landmark opening of the Great Smoky Cannabis Company dispensary by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. While cannabis remains illegal under North Carolina law, the dispensary’s launch was met with overwhelming public support, drawing […]