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Feds to build cannabis seed bank under Senate bill (Newsletter: May 29, 2018)
Canadian Senate panel revises legalization bill; Prohibs host webinar on suing marijuana industry; UN agency head suggests legalizing drugs
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/ TOP THINGS TO KNOW
The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee is setting aside $500,000 for federal authorities to begin restoring the nation’s cannabis seed bank, and is directing the Department of Agriculture to inform hemp farmers of their eligibility for federal funding support.
- In a related development, the Trump administration issued a response to an industrial hemp petition that crossed the WhiteHouse.gov signature threshold.
Not a ton of cannabis news happened on Monday. Check out yesterday’s Marijuana Moment newsletter if you skipped reading it on the holiday…
/ FEDERAL
The office of U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams disputed a reported that he voiced support for supervised drug consumption sites.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’s Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force will hold its first meeting on Wednesday.
Congressman Tom Garrett (R-VA), the chief sponsor of a marijuana descheduling bill, says he won’t run for reelection, citing alcoholism.
Federal law enforcement officials say that foreign drug organizations are producing illegal marijuana in states with legalization.
/ STATES
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) plans to sign a bill doubling the amount of marijuana tax revenue dedicated to school construction.
The California Assembly Appropriations Committee approved a bill to allow marijuana social use and sales at special events held on local fairgrounds.
Arizona independent gubernatorial candidate Noah Dyer says he was fired from his job as an advertising executive for supporting marijuana legalization.
A New Jersey assemblyman filed a bill to add substance use disorder as a medical cannabis qualifying condition.
Here’s a look at marijuana bills pending before Delaware lawmakers.
/ LOCAL
Brooklyn, New York’s borough president wants marijuana to be legalized, but with strict controls.
/ INTERNATIONAL
The Canadian Senate Social Affairs Committee amended the government’s marijuana legalization bill to allow provinces and territories to ban homegrow, and to direct regulators to set potency limits.
The head of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean said that countries should consider legalizing drugs to reduce illegal market violence.
More than 100 people have died in extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh’s “war on drugs.”
/ ADVOCACY
Prohibitionist David Evans is co-hosting a webinar on “Effectively Suing the Cannabis & Marijuana Industry” next month.
Andrew Sullivan wrote about the value of psychedelics.
/ OPINION & ANALYSIS
The New York Times Ethicist said breaking marijuana laws “isn’t very wrong.”
/ BUSINESS
Canopy Growth Corp.. hired the former vice chair of the Canadian federal government’s Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation.
A top New York Times investigative reporter is apparently working on a story concerning “Tobacco and Pot.”
Cannabis company Surterra Holdings is doing some Capitol Hill lobbying, a new filing discloses.
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