Latest / NRBC Compliance Brief / Vol. 1, Ed. 78 — Fri Oct 30: Senators ask USPS to refuse cannabis deliveries
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- This is the New Realm Compliance Brief, Volume one, Edition seventy-eight, for Friday, October thirtieth. Our top story: two Republican senators, James Lankford of Oklahoma and Ted Budd of North Carolina, have asked the Postal Service to stay out of Georgia's new medical cannabis delivery plan. Georgia's medical cannabis commission voted last month to allow home delivery through the Postal Service, FedEx, UPS, and DHL. In a letter to the Postmaster General, the senators said they strongly oppose any effort to allow the shipment of marijuana, and said Georgia lacks authority to change federal postal rules. A Postal Service spokesperson pointed to existing rules against mailing controlled substances and said the agency had nothing additional to offer. Whether the carriers participate will decide whether home delivery becomes a real purchasing channel for THC products in Georgia. In Washington, Representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee, a Democrat, filed a bill that would rewrite the Controlled Substances Act. It would replace the five-schedule system with a dual-axis framework, shift scheduling authority from the Justice Department to the Department of Health and Human Services, and remove marijuana from the act entirely. Cohen is retiring at the end of this year, and the bill has no scheduled committee action. Around the states: in Michigan, Representative Jay DeBoyer filed a bill to suspend the state's new twenty-four percent wholesale cannabis tax for one year, saying it is generating far less revenue than projected. And in Massachusetts, campaigns for and against Question Eight, which would eliminate the state's recreational marijuana industry, have spent nearly six and a half million dollars ahead of Tuesday's vote. On the radar: November twelfth, when the federal exclusion of synthetic cannabinoids takes effect and Illinois' new hemp retail rules begin. December fourth, Rhode Island's hemp inventory report deadline. And December eleventh, when the federal limit of four tenths of a milligram of THC per container takes effect. Full details and source links are in today's email. This update is for general information only — it is not legal advice.