At age 19, I was just one year into my military service when I was tasked, along with about a dozen guys my age, with pulling all of the food supplies off the USS Midway (CV-41) and restocking them onboard the ancient troop carrier from the 1930s that we would live on while the Midway […]
State Question 788
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Seeking clarity
Oklahoma Gazette submitted a list of questions regarding the current state of Oklahoma’s medical cannabis program to the Oklahoma State Department of Health based on the most common reader questions. Here are the responses, compiled by a number of Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority employees. Oklahoma Gazette: Can dispensaries still sell to patients when the OMMA […]
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Cover: Planting prosperity
Medicinal cannabis has been legal in Oklahoma for just over half a year, and this train has no brakes. Based on computations stemming from the amount of gross state tax collections of 7 percent, the industry has raked in over $18.1 million in April alone. That means a total of more than $43 million since […]
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Commentary: Clearing smoke
Nearly a year ago, just before passage of State Question 788, I wrote an article in Oklahoma Gazette about the historic demonization of cannabis and how political and industrial forces conspired to destroy the market for the plant. Many industrialists and their political allies, including major timber, agricultural and chemical interests, aligned against cannabis to […]
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Cover: Canna culture
CannaCon April 18-19 Cox Convention Center 1 Myriad Gardens cannacon.org $40-$150 4/20 Spring Sesh 10 a.m. April 20 Lucky’s Grow Supply 7507 Broadway Extension luckysgrowsupply.com Free Chronic Palooza noon April 20 State Fair Park 3001 General Pershing Blvd. chronicpalooza.xyz Free-$30 Oklahoma City is preparing for its first 420 after the passage of State Question 788. […]
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Batting cleanup
Oklahoma Cannabis Industry Association executive director Bud Scott knows what the major issues are with House Bill 2612 because he authored the 400-page bill that became much of the architecture of the “unity bill.” Scott said he expects many concerns to be addressed before the legislative session closes, but not all of them. “We have […]
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Challenging authority
Five days after House Bill 2612 was signed into law, it has a legal challenge. The petition was filed on behalf of plaintiff Leslie Ann Collum in Oklahoma County District Court on March 19. Collum is a medical marijuana license holder, registered nurse and the owner of Painted Nurse Apothecary, 3017 N. Lee Ave. She […]
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Human relations
Evan Way is an associate attorney with Crowe & Dunlevy and a member of its Cannabis Industry Practice Group. He recently took time to answer Oklahoma Gazette’s questions about State Question 788’s legalization of medical marijuana and how it pertains to employment law. Oklahoma Gazette: How did the law treat a marijuana user before SQ788? […]
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Bitter pills
After moving back to Oklahoma to care for his ailing mother, Dave became an unlikely victim of circumstance when he suffered an injury from which he would never fully recover. Despite a two decade-long track record of responsible opioid use authorized by his former physician, Dave was instructed to gradually reduce his dose if he […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Sooner grown
Among the Oklahoma-centric news alerts this month were the all-too-usual national embarrassments: fracking-induced earthquakes, negligent parenting, prison violence and Kevin Stitt sworn in as governor. But a closer look at Oklahoma’s mentions revealed something unexpected: In at least two areas, our state is something of a progressive trendsetter. A Jan. 9 Associated Press story on […]