GOP Senate Chair Says He Plans Marijuana Banking Vote
FeaturedMarijuana IndustryMarijuana Industry News September 15, 2019 0
A bipartisan bill to protect banks that service marijuana businesses will get a House floor vote by the end of the month, the office of Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) confirmed to Marijuana Moment on Friday. House leadership announced the decision to Democratic lawmakers at a closed-door meeting on... Read more
GOP Senate chair plans cannabis banking vote (Newsletter: September 13, 2019)
Marijuana IndustryMarijuana Industry News September 14, 2019 0
Booker: Marijuana safer than french fries; Oregon psilocybin measure cleared for signatures; Study: Media perpetuates cannabis stereotypes Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment... Read more
New ‘Marijuana 1-to-3 Act’ Would Reclassify Cannabis Under Federal Law
FeaturedMarijuana IndustryMarijuana Industry News September 14, 2019 0
A bipartisan bill to protect banks that service marijuana businesses will get a House floor vote by the end of the month, the office of Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) confirmed to Marijuana Moment on Friday. House leadership announced the decision to Democratic lawmakers at a closed-door meeting on... Read more
Marijuana Banking Bill Will Get A Full House Floor Vote This Month
FeaturedMarijuana IndustryMarijuana Industry News September 14, 2019 0
A bipartisan bill to protect banks that service marijuana businesses will get a House floor vote by the end of the month, the office of Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) confirmed to Marijuana Moment on Friday. House leadership announced the decision to Democratic lawmakers at a closed-door meeting on... Read more
Crapo plans landmark cannabis banking vote
Marijuana Industry News September 14, 2019 0
Senate Banking Chairman Mike Crapo says he wants to hold a vote on legislation that would enable banks to serve cannabis-related businesses, in what would be a major victory for the marijuana industry and for lenders eager to enter the space. In an interview with POLITICO, Crapo said he... Read more
Off-Duty Use of Medical Marijuana: To What Extent Can Employers Say Something About It?
Marijuana Industry NewsMedical Marijuana September 14, 2019 0
By Nathaniel M. Glasser and Anastasia A. Regne Before the rise in acceptance of medical marijuana use, companies often strictly enforced zero tolerance drug policies, even if those policies effectively prohibited employees’ off-duty use of medical marijuana. The legal landscape, and public perception, has drastically changed over the last... Read more
Study finds Marijuana use among college students at 35-year high
Marijuana Industry NewsRecreational Marijuana September 14, 2019 0
Marijuana use by college students hit a 35-year high, according to a study released last Tuesday. The annual Monitoring the Future panel study, a joint effort by researchers at the University’s Institute for Social Research, found that, in 2018, 43 percent of full-time college students said they used marijuana... Read more
Lab Testing Standard Published by ASTM International Cannabis Committee
Marijuana Industry News September 14, 2019 0
PRESS RELEASE W. CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Sept. 12, 2019 – A new ASTM International standard will help bring consistent practices to laboratories working in the cannabis industry. The organization’s cannabis committee (D37) developed the new standard (soon to be published as D8282). The practice was developed by a task group... Read more
Clearing N.J. marijuana convictions stalls again. Democrats now offering Murphy another expungement plan.
Marijuana Industry NewsNew Jersey September 14, 2019 0
Those hoping to have their marijuana convictions cleared will have to keep waiting. The state Senate did not vote on Gov. Phil Murphy’s changes to its expungement legislation on Thursday but instead introduced a new bill of its own. Senators Sandra Cunningham, D-Hudson, and Teresa Ruiz, D-Essex, along with Senate President Stephen... Read more
P.L. Light Systems to Introduce NXT-LP Ceramic Metal Halide Luminaire
Marijuana Industry News September 14, 2019
We’ve recently seen quite a bit of M&A activity in the U.S. cannabis sector, which comes as no surprise following the consolidation that’s occurred in Canada. It makes sense that a growing industry fragmented by scarce institutional capital, varying state-by-state license structures and regulations specifically geared toward individual ownership... Read more
