Happy Hemp Day
in todays report:
Mississippi And South Dakota Officials Defend Marijuana Ballot Measures Against Legal Challenges
Meanwhile, the state Health Department, which is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the new voter-approved cannabis law, filed its own brief siding with Madison’s challenge, arguing that the city’s objections represent “only the tip of the iceberg” with the measure’s problems. The regulators said legalizing cannabis “conflicts with existing state and federal law” and would to transform the department “into something it is not.”
“While different states have adopted a variety of tests to determine when a constitutional change is an amendment or a revision, they have consistently held that the authority of the citizens to alter their governing document is paramount; and the courts should only subvert the people’s will in the narrowest of circumstances,” the attorney general’s office wrote in a memo on the state’s behalf.
“It is inconsequential that Amendment A deals with recreational marijuana, medical marijuana and hemp separately,” the memo says, referencing the single-subject argument. “They are all part of the same ‘group or class’ – cannabis. In other words: cannabis is cannabis is cannabis; just like corn is corn is corn.”
While voters in the state also approved a separate medical cannabis initiative on Election Day, that measure is not being challenge in the law enforcement driving-suit, which is being paid for in part with state funds.
Every single cannabis reform initiative that made the November ballot was approved by voters.
Advocates have pointed out that marijuana reform opponents are increasingly relying on the courts in efforts to quash legalization measures. That’s been especially true in 2020, which showed strong and bipartisan support for the policy change.
Mississippi And South Dakota Officials Defend Marijuana Ballot Measures Against Legal Challenges
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Major Funder Of Montana Marijuana Legalization Initiative Could Be Prosecuted For Campaign Finance Violations
An organization that contributed millions of dollars to the campaign behind Montana’s successful marijuana legalization ballot initiative is facing potential prosecution following an investigation into its refusal to reveal the names of its own donors.
North Fund, which registered as an incidental political committee in the state, put $4,709,520 toward the reform measure. But an anti-legalization activist filed a complaint prior to the November vote alleging that the group is actually an independent committee that is required to disclose information about where its funds come from.
At issue is whether the group exists mainly to influence elections.
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Killer Mike Challenges Joe Biden To Adopt Bernie Sanders’s Marijuana Legalization Plan
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As far as Biden in concerned, he feels marijuana should be placed in Schedule II, the second most restrictive category under the Controlled Substances Act, along with cocaine. But advocates argue that does not go far enough and could have an inadvertent, adverse impact on state-legal markets. They’re pushing him to adopt a policy of complete descheduling, which would be
accomplished if a bill approved by the House
earlier this month makes it through the Senate and onto the president’s desk.
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Killer Mike Says Minorities Deserve Big Stake In Legal Weed Industry | TMZ
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As far as Biden in concerned, he feels marijuana should be placed in Schedule II, the second most restrictive category under the Controlled Substances Act, along with cocaine. But advocates argue that does not go far enough and could have an inadvertent, adverse impact on state-legal markets. They’re pushing him to adopt a policy of complete descheduling, which would be
accomplished if a bill approved by the House
earlier this month makes it through the Senate and onto the president’s desk.
Killer Mike Challenges Joe Biden To Adopt Bernie Sanders’s Marijuana Legalization Plan
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