during the meeting of the Finance Administration and Intergovernmental Relations Steering Committee regarding the call on federal government to resolve the conflict between its laws criminalizing any use of marijuana and the increasing number of states that allow medicinal use of marijuana in the U.S....
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Congressional leadership included in the omnibus spending package language that was introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) to prohibit the Department of Justice and its affiliated agencies from prosecuting state-lawful and compliant medical marijuana systems, businesses, and patients....
Marijuana use impact on security clearances Many employees and contractors of the United States federal government, military personnel, and government officials, who require access to classified information in the course of performing their duties, are required to obtain and maintain ...
Hellerstein earlier had evinced sympathy for the plaintiffs’ claims that medical marijuana had helped them, but appeared to take the government’s argument seriously that the plaintiffs should petition the DEA. The suit originally was filed in July as a growing number of states broke with the ...
The government is seeking records related specifically to that investigation. In court records, state Attorney General Bill Schuette and Assistant Attorney General Joshua Smith quoted confidentiality provisions in the medical-marijuana law: “Applications and supporting information submitted by qualifying patie...
Increased Use of Medical Marijuana: Skepticism vs. Evidence The use of medical marijuana-both the psychoactive tetrahydrocannabinol and its nonpsychoactive relative cannabidiol-is a growing practice in facilities served by senior care pharmacists. Currently, 30 states have approved its use under ... JY...
"And in the 23 states that have no approved medical marijuana, it basically starts to relieve the incongruence where states are moving in one way and the federal government is still saying what you're doing is illegal." The legislation has been co-signed by Sens. Ran...
When State and Federal Laws Collide: Marijuana Legalization As we saw earlier, the federal government can enforce the doctrine of pre-emption, but it doesn't exercise its full power in every case. In California, where medical marijuana is legal, the federal government has taken a different ta...
The U.S. government is barring federal dollars meant for opioid addiction treatment to be used on medical marijuana.