Efforts for Expedited Process to Get Medical Marijuana Lauded in Nevada
- LEGALITIES, MEDICAL MARIJUANA, NEWS
- June 22, 2016
Legislation B24-0013: The Medical Cannabis Amendment Act proposes significant changes to the medical marijuana program in the District. First of all, some provisions increase the number of licensed dispensaries allowed to operate in the District and provide tax relief to operators. The legislation also proposes that individuals “self-certify” for medical marijuana to be codified into law, writes NORML. Furthermore, the legislation,
READ MOREJACKSON, Miss. — Patients have started buying medical marijuana in Mississippi, nearly a year after the products were legalized in the state. The Mississippi Medical Marijuana Assn. said in a news release Thursday that the first purchases happened Wednesday at the Cannabis Co. in Brookhaven and at two dispensaries in Oxford — Hybrid Relief and Star Buds.
READ MOREA Nebraska senator is kicking off the start of the new session with another attempt to finally legalize medical marijuana in the state. Sen. Anna Wishart (D) has been fighting to enact the reform over the past several years, pursuing medical cannabis legalization both through the legislature and activist-led ballot campaigns. Now she’s filed a
READ MORECOLUMBUS, Ohio – A newly introduced Ohio Senate bill would create a 13-member medicinal cannabis oversight commission, as well as a new state agency, in hopes of being more responsive to the state’s medical marijuana industry and expand the diagnoses for which it could be prescribed. Senate Bill 9 is similar to Senate Bill 261 from
READ MOREThe proceedings against Dr. Joseph Dorn, who was one of the first Florida doctors eligible to order medical marijuana for patients, have been closely watched in the state’s medical cannabis community. A state medical board has cleared a doctor who ordered medical marijuana for two undercover investigators posing as patients, finding the Florida Department of
READ MOREWashington, D.C. lawmakers approved a bill on Tuesday that would make fundamental changes to the medical marijuana program in the nation’s capital—including by eliminating cannabis business licensing caps, providing tax relief to operators, further promoting social equity and creating new regulated business categories such as on-site consumption facilities and cannabis cooking classes. It would also
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