OH GOP legalization invoice; IN medical marijuana laws deliberate; MO hashish initiatives flawed, former prisoner says
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/ TOP THINGS TO KNOW
The Drug Enforcement Administration and National Institute on Drug Abuse are backing a White Home plan to make it simpler to analysis marijuana, psychedelics and different Schedule I medicine.
A pair of Ohio Republican lawmakers formally filed a marijuana legalization invoice. The transfer comes as activists are nearing completion of the primary part of their signature drive for an initiative to legalize hashish.
An Indiana Republican representative stated he plans to file a medical hashish invoice within the new session. Democrats, in the meantime, are pushing to legalize leisure marijuana in 2022.
Former Missouri marijuana prisoner Jeff Mizanskey—whose sentence was commuted by a governor— says in a brand new op-ed that proposed hashish poll initiatives have “important flaws” and that lawmakers ought to as a substitute go a legalization plan that emphasizes “liberty and freedom.”
/ FEDERAL
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Nationwide Agricultural Statistics Service tweeted a reminder that responses to a federal hemp survey are due on Friday.
Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee Democrats tweeted about enchancment to hemp crop insurance coverage, saying, “Because the hemp trade grows, it will be important that we offer producers with threat administration instruments which are versatile and efficient sufficient crop insurance coverage. This information is nice for our hemp producers and financial system.”
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) spoke concerning the low tax price in her marijuana legalization invoice.
Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH) tweeted, “#HOPEAct and #SAFEBanking take achievable, bipartisan steps in direction of hashish reform which are essential to the lives of thousands and thousands of People. With these payments, Congress can #PassProgress and start the lengthy overdue technique of ending the federal prohibition of hashish. #HOPEforSAFE.” He additionally tweeted a meme calling on Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to schedule a vote on the marijuana banking invoice.
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) tweeted, “Our brave veterans deserve entry to lifesaving remedy for PTSD and power sickness—interval. I’m working with my Hashish Caucus Co-Chairs to ensure medical hashish is accessible to our vets. It’s lengthy overdue.”
Rep. Marie Newman (D-IL) tweeted, “The hashish trade is likely one of the quickest rising industries, and its staff ought to have entry to a robust union. I’ll all the time stand with staff and the center class within the struggle for honest wages, robust advantages, and secure working circumstances.”
Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) tweeted, “The drug warfare has confirmed that criminalizing substance use solely worsens the disaster. @POTUS’s proposal to completely classify fentanyl analogs as Schedule I medicine is sort of actually lethal. Our method have to be rooted in public well being and saving lives.”
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) tweeted, “The ‘warfare on medicine’ has completed nothing however devastate communities throughout the nation. I’ve launched a invoice with @RepCori to start out treating substance use as the general public well being problem that it truly is.”
/ STATES
Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Cranley, at present Cincinnati’s mayor, tweeted, “For many years we locked up largely Black and brown males for possessing a drug that we knew was much less dangerous than alcohol. It’s time we alter that. Let’s #LegalizeIt and make investments that income proper again into our communities.”
Pennsylvania Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro, at present the lawyer common, tweeted, “Do you need to see marijuana legalization, inexpensive well being care, and a elevate within the minimal wage? Me too. There’s one method to get it completed in Pennsylvania, and it comes on Election Day.”
Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried, at present the agriculture commissioner, tweeted, “Floridians stick collectively. In 2022, we’re sticking collectively to increase Medicaid so folks can get the care they want, legalize marijuana with restorative justice, shield the environment and a lot extra.”
Maryland lawmakers declined to vote on overriding Gov. Lary Hogan’s (R) veto of a invoice to decriminalize drug paraphernalia.
A New Mexico senator spoke throughout a congressional hearing about how the state is diversifying its income away from counting on the oil and gasoline trade by legalizing marijuana.
The Colorado Courtroom of Appeals dominated that drug canine alerts not generate possible trigger for searches.
The Vermont Division of Well being stated it has no related information about police claims of fentanyl-laced marijuana.
The Michigan Poison & Drug Info Heart despatched a public well being alert about experiences of fentanyl-laced marijuana.
Connecticut regulators posted a “closing draft” of marijuana social fairness standards and associated workforce growth plan standards.
The New York State Honest could have designated smoking areas at its 2022 occasion as a consequence of complaints about marijuana smoke this 12 months.
Montana regulators despatched a warning a couple of rip-off focusing on marijuana companies.
Massachusetts regulators are accepting purposes for hemp licenses.
Kansas regulators printed hemp guidelines.
Oklahoma regulators proposed guidelines on hashish seed gross sales and hemp testing and processing.
New Jersey regulators printed a report on the strategies used to find out economically deprived areas for the needs of awarding precedence marijuana enterprise licenses.
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/ LOCAL
The New York City Well being Division printed a flyer on defending kids from marijuana edibles.
Pennington County, South Dakota’s state’s lawyer spoke about marijuana enforcement coverage.
Wellington, Colorado voters permitted a poll measure to repeal the ban on marijuana dispensaries by a one-vote margin.
Denver, Colorado officers despatched a bulletin about transitioning marijuana licensing to a web-based system.
/ INTERNATIONAL
The Mexican Senate’s political coordination board agreed to maneuver ahead on a marijuana legalization invoice and different laws.
The Toronto, Ontario, Canada Board of Well being voted to advance a proposal to decriminalize medicine.
The UK Home of Commons speaker stated he could ask police to deliver drug-sniffing canines into legislative buildings after traces of cocaine had been detected in delicate areas.
Costa Rica’s Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Courtroom of Justice notified lawmakers {that a} medical hashish and hemp invoice doesn’t have any constitutional points.
Australia’s Therapeutic Items Administration is contemplating whether or not to reschedule psilocybin and MDMA.
The Kenyan authorities is asking a courtroom to dismiss a case the place Rastafarians are searching for to overturn marijuana criminalization on spiritual discrimination grounds.
/ SCIENCE & HEALTH
A evaluate concluded that “though THC and THC/CBD interventions offered a major improvement in pain intensity and had been extra doubtless to supply a 30% discount in ache, the proof was of moderate-to-low high quality.”
/ ADVOCACY, OPINION & ANALYSIS
The Republican National Committee tweeted, “The proprietor of a hashish dispensary in Oakland, California says, ‘I used to be safer promoting weed on the streets of Oakland than I’m promoting it legally” within the Democrat-run metropolis. That’s an issue.’”
A ballot of senior staffers on Capitol Hill discovered that 5 p.c suppose marijuana legalization might be a high focus of Congress in 2022.
Drug coverage reform funder Phil Harvey handed away.
The Marijuana Policy Project employed a southeast legislative supervisor.
The Anchorage Daily News editorial board stated Alaska’s marijuana legalization legislation is usually working effectively however that lawmakers ought to make some tweaks in 2022.
The Baltimore Sun editorial board urged Maryland lawmakers to override Gov. Larry Hogan’s (R) veto of a invoice to decriminalize drug paraphernalia.
/ BUSINESS
Avicanna Inc. filed a provisional U.S. patent utility for an oral cannabinoid know-how.
Illinois retailers bought greater than $120 million value of adult-use marijuana merchandise in November.
Missouri dispensaries bought almost $26 million value of medical hashish merchandise in November.
/ CULTURE
The National Basketball Social Justice Coalition tweeted, “The #EQUALAct is a long-overdue reckoning with the crack-powder cocaine sentencing disparity created with no scientific foundation on the peak of the Warfare on Medicine.”
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