Federal Marijuana Banking Bill Advances (a Little)

As reported by Tom Angell, the House Committee on Financial Services just voted (45-15) to approve a version of the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act. You can find the full story at Forbes here. Here is the text of the original House bill (HR 1595): SAFE Banking Act (Original House version).   The Forbes article…

Posted by mikosra on March 30, 2019 in News, Updates, bank, banking, cannabis, Committee on Financial Services, House, HR 1595, marihuana, marijuana, SAFE Banking Act, warren

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UPDATE: Florida Passes Law Removing Ban on Smokable Marijuana

Back in the fall of 2016, Florida voters passed Amendment 2, which legalized the medical use of marijuana. When Florida lawmakers passed legislation to implement the Amendment, they imposed a limitation on how patients could consume marijuana: namely, they defined “medical use” to exclude smoking of marijuana: “(j) ‘Medical use’ . . . . does…

Posted by mikosra on March 20, 2019 in News, Updates, Amendment 2, cannabis, desantis, Florida, governor sb182, lawsuit, marihuana, marijuana, medical, morgan, scott, smokable, smoke, smoking

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States have Proposed Hemp Regulations, but None Yet Approved by USDA

As I explained back in Nov., the 2018 Farm Bill makes some important changes to federal law governing marijuana. See New Congressional Farm Bill Legalizes Some Marijuana. By redefining “marijuana” to exclude hemp (i.e., cannabis plants with very low levels of THC), the Farm Bill legalizes the manufacture, distribution, and possession of those cannabis plants as…

Posted by mikosra on March 4, 2019 in News, Updates, agriculture, cannabis, farm bill, hemp, kentucky, marihuana, marijuana, pennsylvania, state plan

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