{"id":713,"date":"2016-04-29T08:13:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T13:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.masstortlawyerblog.com\/?p=713"},"modified":"2018-04-12T12:40:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T17:40:45","slug":"cannabis-products-raise-health-safety-concerns-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/cannabis-products-raise-health-safety-concerns-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis Products Raise Health and Safety Concerns for Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cannabis is still a controversial topic in the United States. Although some states have deregulated marijuana and even allowed for recreational use, others have maintained criminal liability and punishments for the possession and distribution of marijuana. As the legal and regulatory landscape for cannabis continues to change, certain companies specializing in cannabis-based products are cropping up in states that allow medical or recreational consumption. Since this is such a new frontier, however, there are few safety measures in place to ensure that patients and patrons who purchase these products aren&#8217;t receiving a potentially dangerous product.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government\u00a0recently reaffirmed its long-standing position that federal prosecutors should not focus their resources on prosecuting cannabis-related crimes. In 2009, the Department of Justice issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/blog\/memorandum-selected-united-state-attorneys-investigations-and-prosecutions-states\" target=\"_blank\">memo<\/a> instructing federal prosecutors to forgo investigating criminal activity involving cannabis if\u00a0the suspect&#8217;s conduct clearly conformed with the state&#8217;s medical marijuana laws. Five years later, Congress enacted an amendment that barred the Department of Justice from allocating federal funds to programs that would prevent states from passing legislation allowing medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/cannabis-products-raise-health-safety-concerns-consumers\/#more-713\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cannabis is still a controversial topic in the United States. Although some states have deregulated marijuana and even allowed for recreational use, others have maintained criminal liability and punishments for the possession and distribution of marijuana. 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