Following closely on the heels of both New York and New Jersey enacting recreational cannabis laws, New Mexico and Virginia have enacted their own laws allowing adults to use cannabis for recreational purposes. Virginia went further by enacting the first law providing employment protections to individuals using cannabis oil. Although not immediately effective, New Mexico and Virginia employers should immediately
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The Week in Weed: September 9, 2016
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
- Fed’s Williams sees ‘unsustainable tension’ on pot-related banking
(Reuters UK: Health & Drugs, 7 September 2016)
RENO, Nev. (Reuters) – As more and more states legalize the use of marijuana, which is banned under U.S. federal laws, banks are facing “unsustainable…
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The Week in Weed: July 29, 2016
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
- The Famous Marijuana Memos: Q&A With Former DOJ Deputy Attorney General James Cole
(Marijuana Business Daily: News, 27 July 2016)
There’s a good argument to be made that James Cole has had a bigger impact on the U.S. cannabis industry than…
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The Week in Weed: June 24, 2016
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at the world of legalized marijuana.
- Microsoft makes bold move into marijuana biz
(USA Today, 17 June 2016)
Microsoft is welcoming marijuana compliance company Kind Financial onto its Azure Government cloud platform, marking a legitimizing first for the legal cannabis business while positioning the technology giant at the vanguard of…
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The Week in Weed: March 25, 2016
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your every Friday look at news from the world of legalized cannabis. The biggest news is that the Supreme Court decided not to hear a case brought by the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma against the state of Colorado, concerning Colorado’s legalization of marijuana. There are any number of articles on this topic,…
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How a Bill Becomes a Law – DC Style
One of the difficulties in researching or tracking state laws is that each jurisdiction has a slightly different process for enacting legislation. In broad stokes, they are similar: they all have a legislature that passes bills and an executive who then signs or vetoes them, but the details of each state’s method of enacting statutes can be confusing if you…
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