Marijuana Politics Archives - International Cannabis Business Conference https://internationalcbc.com/tag/marijuana-politics/ USA Canada And Europe's International Cannabis Business Conference Fri, 11 Aug 2017 21:02:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://internationalcbc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-icbclogo_512_512-32x32.jpg Marijuana Politics Archives - International Cannabis Business Conference https://internationalcbc.com/tag/marijuana-politics/ 32 32 First Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opens in Hawaii https://internationalcbc.com/first-medical-marijuana-dispensary-opens-hawaii/ Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:30:38 +0000 https://internationalcbc.com/?p=27248 This week scored a mark in history for medical cannabis patients in the Aloha State. Initial sales went into effect on Tuesday on Maui and Wednesday on Oahu at two of the state-licensed dispensaries on the island chain. Although eight dispensaries have been granted licenses by the state’s Department of Health, business owners had been […]

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]]> National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators Urges Ending Cannabis Prohibition https://internationalcbc.com/national-hispanic-caucus-of-state-legislators-urges-ending-cannabis-prohibition/ Thu, 10 Aug 2017 14:00:47 +0000 https://internationalcbc.com/?p=27241 Just a couple of days ago, my colleague Anthony Johnson reported that for the second year in a row, the National Conference of State Legislatures has passed a resolution in support of fully removing cannabis from the list of Controlled Substances, essentially freeing the growing majority of states which have some form of legal cannabis, […]

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]]> State Legislatures Want to End Federal Cannabis Prohibition https://internationalcbc.com/state-legislatures-want-end-federal-cannabis-prohibition/ Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:10:49 +0000 https://internationalcbc.com/?p=27214 On the heels of New Jersey Senator Cory Booker introducing the “Marijuana Justice Act” to repeal cannabis prohibition, the National Conference of State Legislatures has joined the call for legalization, urging the federal government to remove marijuana from the list of controlled substances. This is the second year in a row that the NCSL has […]

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