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Veterans House Bill

Veterans Medical Marijuana Amendment Fails in House

Veterans Medical Marijuana Amendment Fails in House

An amendment to a 2016 spending bill that would have allowed doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs to discuss medical marijuana with veterans has been defeated in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Cromnibus

Initiative 71 May Be Safe Despite Cromnibus

Many Americans have actually experienced a government shutdown so the term has a less apocalyptic connotation in 2014. Fortunately, Congress was able to avert a shutdown this year at the 11th hour by signing a massive spending bill that funds the federal government.

dispensaries

D.C.’s Dispensaries Poised to Prosper

Medical marijuana has been legal in the District of Columbia since 2010, but dispensaries did not begin opening until the spring of 2013. They have had a pretty rugged year, operating within the confines of a highly restrictive law. That may be about to change, however, because the District’s Council has made moves.

Banking amendment

House Passes Cannabis Banking Amendment

On July 16, 2014, Congress made a historic move to ease restrictions on banks and to allow them to conduct business with marijuana-related business. The measure was passed as an amendment to a Treasury Department appropriations bills, H.R. 5016 and it was sponsored by Reps. Denny Heck, D-WA, Dana Rohrabacher, R-CA, Ed Perlmutter, D-CO, and Barbara Lee, D-CA.

Dispensary open. Sonya Yruel/Drug Policy Alliance.

House of Representatives Votes to Open Banking for Cannabis Businesses

WASHINGTON, DC – The House of Representatives cast two votes today in support of opening up banking services to state-legal marijuana businesses. By a vote of 231-192, the House passed an amendment to the Financial Services appropriations bill, forbidding the use of federal funds to penalize financial institutions that serve marijuana businesses operating legally under state law.

Senate

Medical Marijuana Amendment in Senate

On May 30, 2014, the United States House of Representatives took a stand for patient’s rights and, with overwhelming bipartisan support, passed a budget amendment designed to restrict the Department of Justice from using federal funds to prosecute patients and caregivers in medical marijuana states.

Senate

Will Senate Defund DEA Raids?

In the wee hours of Friday, May 30, 2014, the U.S. House of Representatives approved an amendment to an appropriations bill that medical marijuana proponents hope will stop the Drug Enforcement Administration raids of businesses operating legally under state medical marijuana laws.

Vote on MMJ

Anti-Pot Republicans Forsake Federalism In Medical Marijuana Vote

Early this morning, by a vote of 219 to 189, the House of Representatives approved an amendment aimed at stopping federal interference with state laws that “authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.”


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