FL legalization campaign arrests; GOP congressman supports rescheduling, Ukraine medical marijuana bill is delayed; record ME sales
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Top Things to Know
Rep. Dean Phillips, a Democratic presidential candidate for 2024 in Minnesota, said that Joe Biden was simply too old to understand the necessity of legalizing marijuana.
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I think it is generational. “People in their eighties haven’t seen things, lived things or experienced things like younger generations. .”
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Florida Department of Law Enforcement has arrested two individuals accused of falsifying the signatures of a ballot initiative for legalizing marijuana in 2024 that is currently being heard by the State Supreme Court.
The President Volodymyr Zelensky has delayed signing into law a medical cannabis bill approved by Ukrainian legislators last week. This is due to a challenge by an opposition led by a former premier.
Maine Office of Cannabis Policy reported that Maine set a record for adult-use marijuana in 2023. Nearly $200 million in legal cannabis products have been sold so far this year, which is $40 million more than all of 2022.
Morgan Godvin, a member of the Oregon Measure 110 Oversight and Accountability Council, wrote an op/ed in which she argued that overturning a law that voters approved decriminalizing drugs would put police under strain and lead to more overdoses.
Federal
Sens. Ron Wyden (D – OR) and Patty Murray – (D – WA) called for the federal government not to apply severe punishments to immigrants who work in marijuana industry.
Sen. John Hickenlooper, (D-CO), tweeted: “This Christmas Colorado is making a list and checking it twice!” Here’s mine: Federal marijuana reform… What’s on yours?
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/ STATES
The Ohio lieutenant governor criticised the House of Representatives after it failed to pass legislation amending the marijuana legalization law approved by voters before the end of the year.
Wisconsin’s Assembly Speaker said, “We know from our Democratic counterparts that you won’t be able count on anything unless we go full recreational marijuana” in order to pass a medical cannabis bill.
Illinois regulators have proposed changes to hemp regulations.
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/ LOCAL
New York City Mayor spoke of the need to “attack unlicensed marijuana business”.
Sheriff Siskiyou County in California claimed that state law prevented him from taking action against illegal cannabis cultivation.
SCIENCE AND HEALTH
Reviewers concluded that “cannabinoids could be used to treat some cancer-related side effects and to reduce tumor growth, but a lack clinical trials makes it difficult to use them on real patients.”
The review concluded “the use psychedelics in treating alcohol use disorder is encouraging, but the weakness of the literature base prevents making definitive statements about it’s value.”
/ ADVOCACY / OPINION AND ANALYSIS
Delaware Cannabis Advocacy Network organized a “Joints for Junk”, where activists distributed marijuana pre-rolls to start a trash cleanup.
/ BUSINESS
MedMen Enterprises Inc. updated its financial statement filing capability.
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