U.S. Cannabis Council CEO Steve Hawkins on the Federal Lobbying Group’s Goals for 2022 January 4, 2022 Tom Hymes News & Insights, Organizations & Associations, Spotlight 0 Comments A 501(c)4 nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., the United States Cannabis Council (USCC), launched a mere 11 months ago with the mandate “to advance social equity, end the federal prohibition of cannabis, modernize federal and state regulations and promote high… Read More→
Congress approves bills that will expand medical marijuana access for veterans March 16, 2020 AggregatedNews Organizations & Associations 0 Comments The bills would allow VA doctors to recommend medical marijuana prescriptions to patients while another would kickstart veteran-related cannabis research. A pair of key bills that could expand veterans’ access to medical marijuana passed in a House Committee this week.… Read More→
VA memo reminds staffers they can be fired for marijuana use March 6, 2020 AggregatedNews Organizations & Associations 0 Comments Veterans Affairs employees can still be fired for using marijuana even in states where the drug is legal, department officials said in a new message sent out to employees this week. The memo, described as a “self-explanatory, simple reminder” by VA leadership, applies… Read More→
Moulton legislation would push VA on medical marijuana for veterans November 14, 2018 AggregatedNews Organizations & Associations, Policy & Legal 0 Comments Millions of American military veterans — more than one in five, according to an American Legion survey — use marijuana to treat a medical ailment. But many of those veterans say the Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides health care to former… Read More→
Why Advocacy Needs to be a Part of Your Communications Strategy September 24, 2018 Shawna Seldon McGregor Marketing, Opinions, Organizations & Associations 0 Comments Heading into the November Midterms, it’s a perfect time to reflect on the myriad ways in which lawmakers and regulators affect our ability to do business in the legal cannabis sector—and how reaching those audiences needs to be an important… Read More→
V.A. Shuns Medical Marijuana, Leaving Vets to Improvise July 25, 2018 AggregatedNews Organizations & Associations 0 Comments Some of the local growers along the coast here see it as an act of medical compassion: Donating part of their crop of high-potency medical marijuana to ailing veterans, who line up by the dozens each month in the echoing… Read More→
FDA Rejects Petition To Further Restrict Marijuana July 6, 2018 AggregatedNews Organizations & Associations, Policy & Legal 0 Comments The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has denied a request from an anti-legalization group to place marijuana and its derivatives on a list of restricted substances that are not "generally recognized as safe and effective." The move is "not… Read More→
Democratic Senator Calls Out Big Pharma For Marijuana Opposition February 24, 2018 AggregatedNews Organizations & Associations, Policy & Legal 0 Comments A prominent Democratic U.S. senator is slamming pharmaceutical companies for opposing marijuana legalization. "To them it's competition for chronic pain, and that's outrageous because we don't have the crisis in people who take marijuana for chronic pain having overdose issues,"… Read More→
Lacking Applicants, Secret Service Eases Restrictions on Marijuana Use for Potential Employees June 13, 2017 AggregatedNews Organizations & Associations 0 Comments It has become so difficult for the U.S. Secret Service to find recruits that have never before experimented with marijuana that the agency’s new director, Randolph Alles, has thrown his hands in air on the issue, announcing last week that… Read More→
American Pediatricians Reinforce That Any Kind of Marijuana Is Risky for Kids February 27, 2017 AggregatedNews Organizations & Associations 0 Comments CHICAGO — An influential doctors group is beefing up warnings about marijuana's potential harms for teens amid increasingly lax laws and attitudes on pot use. Many parents use the drug and think it's OK for their kids, but "we would… Read More→
DEA Reinforces That All Cannabis Extracts, Including CBD Oil, Are Schedule I Substances December 14, 2016 AggregatedNews Organizations & Associations, Policy & Legal 3 Comments The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) made CBD oil a little more federally illegal in a little-noticed bureaucratic maneuver this morning. Today’s Federal Register (Dec. 14, 2016) contains an item (21 CFR Part 1308) that establishes a new drug code… Read More→
More States Say Yes to Marijuana as NFL Continues to Say No November 21, 2016 AggregatedNews Organizations & Associations, Policy & Legal 0 Comments Voters in seven more states said "yes" to marijuana this month. Pot now is legal for recreational or medicinal use in more than half the country. It's still against federal law and classified as a Schedule 1 drug, meaning U.S.… Read More→
UK Government Says Marijuana Does Have Medicinal Value October 24, 2016 AggregatedNews Organizations & Associations, Policy & Legal 0 Comments The government’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has found that Cannabidiol (CBD) has a “restoring, correcting or modifying” effect on “physiological functions” when administered to humans, in a potential milestone in the campaign to legalise cannabis and bring… Read More→
Here’s Why the FDA Does Not Believe Marijuana Is Medicine October 19, 2016 AggregatedNews Organizations & Associations, Policy & Legal 2 Comments The November election will be a pivotal moment for the future of U.S. marijuana policy. Voters in five states, including California, will decide whether to legalize weed for recreational use by adults, and citizens in four others will cast ballots on… Read More→
A Look Into the NFL’s Tumultuous Relationship With Marijuana September 22, 2016 AggregatedNews Organizations & Associations, Policy & Legal 0 Comments At the conclusion of North Dallas Forty wide receiver Phil Elliott, played by Nick Nolte, gets blackballed by his team owner for "smoking a marijuana cigarette." After being presented with a photo that shows Elliott toking up, the team owner… Read More→