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Meeting Agenda for December 13, 2022 at 7 pm
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Federal Drug Policy Reform: Midterm Elections: with Senator Fetterman elected in Pennsylvania, we now have a tristate area of federal pro-cannabis legislators.
Maryland and Missouri have joined the states that legalized marijuana.
President Joe Biden signed the Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act, the U.S. Senate approved and House-passed cannabis research bill; the first standalone marijuana reform legislation ever sent to the president’s desk. The Congressional Cannabis Caucus said: “For decades, the federal government has stood in the way of science and progress—peddling a misguided and discriminatory approach to cannabis.”
Congressional hearing: Developments in State Cannabis Laws and Cannabis Reforms at the
Federal Level with NORML's Paul Armentano.
Marijuana Policy Project (MPP): contact your elected officials; pass federal reform in the lame duck session: CLICK HERE to email your Senators.
New Jersey Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Banking Protections Bill As Congress Prepares to Act.
DEA’s most corrupt agent: Parties, sex amid ‘unwinnable war’
The Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC): Meetings: Jan. 12, 2023, at 1 pm.
At its 12/3/22 meeting, the CRC approved 113 conditional
adult-use cannabis license applications, six conversions, eight annual
applications, and Harmony’s
medical cannabis dispensary expansion to adult-use cannabis.
The CRC held three virtual
meetings on 11/15, 16, and 17 to
determine where the social equity excise fee money will go. The next hearings on
this issue will be on 1/10/23 and 1/18/23 at 7 pm.
Ascend Fort Lee became the 21st store in NJ to offer recreational cannabis when it opened for adult use sales on November 17.
The CRC approved rules for indoor and outdoor Cannabis Consumption Areas.
The
Trenton City Council approved
WOAH FLOW’s ATC application on 12/1/22, following the recommendation of the Trenton
Cannabis Advisory Committee. State regulations require a
resolution of support from the governing body of a municipality, approving the cannabis
business operation. The state also requires approval from the local zoning and/or
planning board.
More Plant Medicine: SoundMind, a psychedelic therapy and training center, has launched Veteran Peer Support Model to help veterans address a variety of mental health conditions. Hannah McLane, Director, hannah@soundmind.institute
Medical Cannabis
Insurance bills:
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S313/A3248: Costs
of medical cannabis to be reimbursed by Catastrophic Illness in Children
Relief Fund, PAAD, Senior Gold and VCCO. The bills passed both Health
Committees and are in the Senate and Assembly Budget and Oversight Committees.
OLS Fiscal
Estimate is here.
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S309/ A3511: Requires
workers'
compensation, PIP, and health insurance coverage.
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S782 /A3932: Subsidize
medical cannabis in Medicaid or NJ Family Care.
Home
cultivation bills: Web
site: https://www.letpatientsgrownj.com/
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S342/A997:
Authorizes home cultivation of medical cannabis.
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A1422:
Legalizes possession of six marijuana plants for personal use.
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S353/A3657:
Legalizes six plants for personal use and 10 plants for medical
NJ’s bill subscription service allows you to create a list of bills, track legislative action & stay up to date on topics you care about.
Hospital and Institutional Access: NJ patients in hospitals, nursing homes, state
institutions, group homes and hospice are unable to access medical cannabis.
Implement the Jake Honig law’s Institutional Caregivers to accomplish this!
Bennabis Health Expands and Launches Workers’ Compensation Program
Bennabis Health offers a membership program for medical
cannabis. Patients who join will have a 15% discount at participating
Network Dispensaries.
Upcoming Events:
Real
Cannabis Holiday Online Shop-A-Thon, 12/15, 6-9 pm
Heady NJ: Working
in South Jersey Cannabis, 1/21/23, 1 – 5 PM,
$20 fee.
Recent events:
F.E.M. PREAACH - Psychedelics Panel, Stockton
U., 11/12.
Heady NJ: Cannabis Gathering, UFCW Union Hall, West Berlin, 11/12.
Ewing FOP: Marijuana
Presentation, Ewing Hollowbrook Center 11/9.
Thanksgiving Giveaway, State House, Trenton, 11/24.
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