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The Highs and Lows of New York’s Cannabis Industry Rollout

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12
May

Recreational cannabis is now legal in New York. Theoretically, you can go into a dispensary and buy some cannabis and smoke/eat/drink/ingest it, or even open up your own cannabis business. There’s just one problem: there’s an indefinite license freeze going on right now, so nobody knows when new licenses will be rolled out. This article […]

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Did Biden’s Medical Cannabis Research Act Help Anything?

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26
Apr

A new year encourages hope and reflection, both of which are useful in evaluating existing cannabis policies at the federal level and what may be expected in the coming months. Significantly, while the industry suffered a loss in the unsuccessful efforts to include the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act in the National Defense […]

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President Biden’s Pardon of Simple Cannabis Offenders

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27
Mar

While federal legalization of cannabis continues to languish in the halls of Congress, the Biden administration is being proactive on the issue. On Oct. 6, 2022, President Joe Biden announced he will pardon all federal offenses of simple cannabis possession and called for rescheduling the drug.  Cannabis is currently a Schedule I narcotic under the […]

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