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23rd September 2022
US - Arkansas: The Arkansas Supreme Court decided yesterday (22nd September) that the votes will be counted for the ballot measure that would legalise recreational cannabis, press reports. The state’s Supreme Court decided last month to allow the ballot measure onto the November ballot, but whether the votes were counted depended on yesterday’s decision.22nd September 2022
US - Minnesota: Medical cannabis company Vireo Health has filed a lawsuit against the state alleging that House File (HF) 4065 – which allows the sale of hemp-derived edibles – unfairly discriminates against cannabis-derived edibles. According to the company, the hemp-derived edibles are chemically identical to their cannabis-derived medical edibles.
22nd September 2022
US - Oklahoma: The Oklahoma Supreme Court decided yesterday that the ballot initiative to legalise recreational cannabis in the state could not appear on the 8th November ballot because it had been delayed beyond the deadline for printing the papers, media reports. Justices dismissed two separate legal challenges to the ballot title, clearing the initiative’s path for a vote during the state’s next general or special election. Supporters of the measure say it will appear on the November ballot in 2024 at the latest, or sooner if the governor calls a special election.
21st September 2022
US - New York: The Cannabis Control Board (CCB) has resolved to adopt revised regulations for the home cultivation of cannabis for medical use. Certified medical cannabis patients or designated caregivers will be able to harvest up to six plants, only three of which could be mature. The CCB has also approved amendments to the state's cannabinoid hemp program. Among other changes, the new rules create a licence for approved hemp farmers to sell flowers and raise the maximum cannabinoid allowance per individual serving to 100 mg. All the new rules will take effect on 5th October.
21st September 2022
US - California: Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law a number of new bills relating to cannabis. Assembly Bill 2188 prohibits employers, with a few exceptions, from discriminating against employees in hiring, termination, or any term or condition of employment for using cannabis while off the job. AB 1894 prohibits any indication on the packaging of cannabis vaporisers and cartridges that they are disposable and can be thrown away in trash or recycling streams, and requires specific labelling about their proper disposal.
21st September 2022
US - California: Assembly Bill 1885, newly signed into law, expands the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act to cover cannabis products intended for animals – other than livestock or food animals – and requires regulations for such products. Senate Bill 1186, also now law, prohibits localities from banning the retail sale by delivery of medical cannabis to qualified patients or their caregivers.
16th September 2022
- US - Oklahoma: Three challenges were filed to a ballot initiative to legalise recreational cannabis during a mandatory ten-day window that opponents had to file such challenges, which ended on Thursday, press reports. Organisers of the initiative now have until Monday to file their rebuttal to the challenges, and the Oklahoma Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether the initiative reaches the 8th November ballot. Ballots sent to voters overseas are scheduled to be sent on 23rd September.
16th September 2022
- US - federal: A bipartisan group of members of Congress wrote a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Rober Califf criticising the FDA's "completely insufficient response" after they requested technical assistance after filing the CBD Product Safety and Standardization Act, press reports. The lawmakers called the FDA response "simply a reformatting of a document provided to Congress over two years ago”. The letter further calls out the FDA for not using its authority to regulate hemp-derived products granted to it under the 2018 Farm Bill and "allowing a marketplace where dangerous products, like those containing delta-8 THC, are often indistinguishable from products that meet strict standards for quality, dosage, packaging, and sale established by state regulators who have stepped in to fill the regulatory void”.
15th September 2022
US - Nevada: A judge has ruled that the Nevada Board of Pharmacy may no longer list cannabis as a Schedule I drug, press reports. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which brought the lawsuit, claimed the Schedule I listing, despite voters passing an initiative in 2016 to legalise cannabis, created a loophole that allowed law enforcement to arrest people unjustly for cannabis offences.
15th September 2022
US - federal: Representative Jared Huffman, a California Democrat, has introduced the Small and Homestead Independent Producers (SHIP) Act, which would allow small cannabis cultivators and manufacturers to operate and send their cannabis products across state lines directly to consumers. The bill is contingent, however, upon cannabis being removed from the federal Controlled Substances Act and federal criminal penalties for manufacturing and distributing cannabis being eliminated.
14th September 2022
US - Missouri: The Missouri Supreme Court declined to hear a lawsuit challenging a ballot initiative to legalise recreational cannabis, thereby clearing the final legal hurdles for the initiative to appear on the November ballot, press reports. Although the secretary of state had already validated the ballot initiative, a lawsuit challenged the validation process but was dismissed by lower courts.
