Sentences with phrase «under federal marijuana»

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That is a conundrum for the state's airports, which are locally owned and operated but are subject to federal law, under which marijuana is an illegal substance.

Under federal law, marijuana remains listed as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled SubstanceUnder federal law, marijuana remains listed as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substanceunder the Controlled Substance Act.

The federal government does not intervene with legalized marijuana at the state level under the guidance of the Cole Memo written in 2013 by then Deputy Attorney General James Cole.

States have clashed with the federal government over marijuana, which remains illegal under federal law.

Taking a page from laws creating sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants, a group of lawmakers have submitted a bill that bans California law enforcement from working with federal authorities if they attempt to take action against marijuana grow facilities or dispensaries that operate legally under state law.

Fourteen states have legal marijuana on the ballot in 2016, and a recent report showed that, under certain circumstances, legalization could generate $ 28 billion in tax revenue at the federal, state, and local levels.

The referendums come amid shifts in American opinions on marijuana in recent years that have energized efforts to legalize cannabis, a drug that remains illegal under federal law even as Colorado and Washington state have been given the go - ahead to experiment with legalization.

Marijuana is illegal under federal law, but so far eight states and the District of Columbia have legalized the drug for recreational use, while 28 states in total have legalized medical cannabis.

The process of branding cannabis businesses is further slowed by marijuana's classification under the federal Controlled Substances Act as a Schedule 1 drug (along with heroin, LSD and other hallucenogens).

Drugs are rescheduled often, but marijuana has been deemed a Schedule I substance for 46 years, which makes it illegal to grow, possess, use, or distribute under federal law.

While marijuana is still illegal under federal law, legal medical marijuana markets have been opened across with Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska opened recreational markets as well.

At the federal level, marijuana remains classified as a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act, where Schedule I substances are considered to have a high potential for dependency and no accepted medical use, making distribution of marijuana a federal offense.

Banks and insurance companies refuse to do business with cannabis companies because marijuana is illegal under federal law and most financial institutions are federally insured, forcing marijuana businesses to operate in cash.

«Currently, under federal banking laws, many legal, regulated legitimate marijuana businesses — operating legally according to state law — are prevented from maintaining bank accounts and accessing financial products like any other business, such as accepting credit cards, depositing revenues or writing checks to meet payroll or pay taxes,» Perlmutter said.

Because marijuana remains illegal under federal law, and because most banks operate under federal regulations, it is hard for dispensaries to open checking accounts or take credit cards.

In a strange twist of fate, while growing medical marijuana plants is now permitted in parts of the U.S., industrial hemp remains prohibited under a federal ban.

When Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo on marijuana to federal prosectors Thursday, reiterating their leeway to prosecute federal marijuana laws as they see fit, regardless of whether the plant is legal under state and local law, he likely spurred future infringements on liberty, struck a blow against federalism, and defied public opinion.

Pot remains illegal under federal law, and Sessions» new direction lets federal prosecutors in states where marijuana is legal decide how aggressively to enforce that law.

Worried about the fact that marijuana is still listed as an illegal drug under federal law?

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This recipe is only intended for those who have obtained marijuana legally under applicable federal and state laws.

Like sports betting, marijuana is illegal under federal law.

So even in states that have legalized marijuana for some or all purposes, it is still illegal under federal law.

Yet another courtroom battle promises to pull the White House into the legal spotlight today as crucial arguments are heard in New York in a sweeping lawsuit that is challenging the administration's marijuana policy by seeking to legalize pot under federal law.

A federal judge in New York tossed out a sweeping lawsuit that sought to make marijuana legal under federal law, ruling that the plaintiffs had failed to take the necessary first step of asking the DEA to remove cannabis from its list of dangerous substances.

Now Cuomo has reversed himself, proposing a medical marijuana research program run under exacting federal guidelines that would be the most restrictive in the country.

Marijuana use is illegal under federal law but allowed in some cases in dozens of states.

«It is still not entirely clear to me that the federal government would prohibit the movement of medical marijuana under state supervision from one legal medical marijuana state to another,» Gottfried said earlier today.

It also eased the threat that the Department of Justice under Attorney General Jeff Sessions — a staunch foe of legalization — would step up enforcement of federal prohibitions on sales and use of marijuana in states such as Colorado.

This whole medicinal pot issue is a little thorny, since marijuana is illegal under federal law — period, end of story, even in states that have passed legislation or ballot initiatives making the drug legal for use by people who are sick, those individuals are still subject to arrest by federal officials for possession or cultivation.

Finally, because marijuana is still illegal in most states and under federal law, people who possess or sell marijuana may face legal consequences.

David Monson, a third - generation farmer and veteran Republican state representative from the northeastern corner of the state, and Wayne Hauge, also a third - generation farmer from the northwestern corner of the state, filed suit in Bismarck in June, in essence asking a federal judge to tell the DEA that its power to enforce drug prohibition (under the federal Controlled Substances Act) does not give it the power to regulate a purely agricultural endeavor to cultivate hemp, the nonnarcotic cousin of marijuana.

The AP has an interesting article about a little - known government operation under which the federal government grows marijuana, tests it, rolls it into cigarettes and mails these marijuana cigarettes (in tins of 300) out to a very select group of citizens.

Of course, we should, as a beginning to our discussion, remind everyone that although Colorado and Washington have legalized marijuana at the state level, marijuana remains illegal everywhere in the United States under federal law.

Under federal law, it is illegal the minute you have any marijuana or marijuana seeds.

There is also a federal appropriations bill which prohibits expenditure of federal funds to prosecute marijuana crimes which are legal under state law, although these bills only last a year at a time.

At the SJC, the employer argued that the employee's accommodation was facially unreasonable given that, while her medical marijuana was legal under state law, it was nonetheless illegal under Federal law.

Dish Network filed a motion to dismiss at the trial court level, arguing that because medical marijuana use is not a «lawful» activity under federal law, it is not a «lawful» activity under Colorado's Lawful Activities Statute.

These businesses and the individuals involved in these establishments are well aware that marijuana remains illegal under federal law and the US attorneys, despite the Cole Memo and other memos, of course always had the discretion to go after and prosecute egregious violators of the federal law.

After all, marijuana was first outlawed under federal law in 1937 when FDR was President and the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 was passed when Richard Nixon was President.

One case from Colorado held that while marijuana is illegal under federal law as a Schedule I drug (which means it officially has no medicinal uses under federal law), an employee is not protected for discipline or discharge for a positive test.

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The appellate decision hinged on their finding that since marijuana remains illegal under federal law, its use is therefore not «lawful» under Colorado's «Lawful Activities» statute.

Marijuana is still considered an illegal substance under federal law, Walker says.

Seven states so far have legalized cannabis for recreational use and medical marijuana is legal in 21 other states, but federally - funded banks can not serve the needs of cannabis - related businesses, because it is still an illegal drug under federal law.

The first thing to consider is that although legal under state law, marijuana remains a Schedule 1 illegal substance under federal law.