Susan Ryan
Welcome again to The Week in Weed, your Friday take a look at what’s taking place on the earth of legalized marijuana.
This week, we begin off in Nevada, the place a choose decided that marijuana ought to now not seem on the state’s Schedule I, and the place lots of people want to open hashish lounges. Then we journey to Mississippi, the place medical marijuana gross sales will start in January 2023. In federal information, we see OSHA placing the hashish business on discover after the demise of a employee. And at last, Chuck Schumer is not working to permit marijuana on Amtrak.
NEVADA RESCHEDULING
A Nevada district court docket choose ordered the Nevada State Board of Pharmacy to take away hashish from its Schedule I. The ruling acknowledged that the board has no authority to control hashish and thus it should be de-scheduled. The truth that marijuana is unlawful on the federal degree isn’t related, mentioned the manager director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, a celebration to the go well with.
“The notion {that a} state company is ready to interact in illegal actions as a result of it’s taking place on the federal authorities – it’s simply not the way in which it really works.”
NEVADA LOUNGES
In different Nevada information, the state’s Hashish Compliance Board launched figures exhibiting over 100 candidates for 40 consumption lounge licenses. The method of awarding the licenses includes various kinds of institutions and various kinds of candidates, however state officers anticipate that lounges will open in early 2023.
MISSISSIPPI
Talking of 2023, that’s when gross sales of medical hashish will start in Mississippi. The state issued licenses to cultivators, dispensaries, processors and numerous different entitles concerned within the strategy of bringing marijuana to market. To start out, all these folks might be serving solely 406 sufferers, however the business is anticipated to develop considerably in a number of years.
OSHA
Following the demise of a hashish business employee in Massachusetts (see our report here), the federal Occupational Security and Well being Administration (OSHA) issued a hazard alert letter to the power, citing “occupational portions of complete and floor hashish.” Marijuana could also be unlawful on the federal degree, however OSHA holds these within the business to federal security requirements.
AND FINALLY
In case you have a psychological checklist of clearly satirical tales that folks in some way imagine are true, we’ve one other item so as to add to your file. The Buffalo Chronicle (satirically) reported that Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is engaged on a invoice to permit the sale and use of hashish on Amtrak’s “slow-moving routes.” That is NOT, repeat NOT, true.
Keep secure and be nicely everybody – we’ll see you subsequent week!
