As former President Donald Trump’s tenure came to a close on Jan. 20, 2021, he issued a flurry of executive pardons and commutations with just hours left in office. While the batch of 73 pardons and 70 commutations contained a few controversial names, the majority of those who received the 11th-hour pardons and commutations had been championed by criminal justice reform advocates. Of the more than 140 individuals who received clemency from the former president, 12 of them had been incarcerated due to marijuana-related offenses.

The final batch of pardons came after several White House officials and criminal justice reform advocates scrambled for days to finalize the list and convince Trump to approve it. The president’s power of clemency allowed him to issue pardons, amnesties, reprieves and  remissions as well as commutations for federally prosecuted crimes. With five more states legalizing marijuana on the November ballot and the House of Representatives passing legislation that would decriminalize cannabis at the federal level, the pardons and commutations for marijuana-related offenses were inevitable.

Most of the defendants, including some who were serving life sentences, had their sentence commuted rather than pardoned. This means their sentences were either reduced or ended while their initial convictions remained. The only individual who received a full pardon was Utah’s Lynn Barney who had served a custodial sentence of 35 months for firearms possession and had been released. Prior to that, he had been convicted on charges of distributing marijuana. A statement from the White House describes him as a “model citizen” who is devoted to his work and children.

Other marijuana offenders who received the last-minute clemency include the following:

• Craig Cesal (61) was serving a life sentence for conspiring to distribute marijuana from Mexico, across the Texas border, and into Georgia back in 2002. His home state Illinois now allows both medical and recreational cannabis.
• James Romans (42) from Indiana who was sentenced to life in prison without parole for conspiracy to distribute marijuana. His sentence was commuted after he served 10 years.
• Jonathan Braun (36) who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to import marijuana and to commit money laundering.
• Noah Kleinman (45) was sentenced to nearly 20 years in California for illegally distributing marijuana.
• Ferell Damon Scott (56) was sentenced to life for possession with intent to distribute marijuana
• John Knock (73), a first time, nonviolent cannabis offender who was handed two life sentences plus 20 years for conspiracy to import marijuana into Canada and Europe.
• Anthony DeJohn was sentenced to life for conspiracy to distribute marijuana.
• Corvain Cooper (41) was sentenced to life for nonviolent participation in a conspiracy to distribute cannabis.
• Way Quoe Long (58) was sentenced to 50 years for nonviolent participation in a conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana.
• Michael Pelletier (64) was sentenced to 30 years for conspiracy to distribute marijuana.
• Brain Simmons was sentenced to 15 years for a nonviolent, marijuana-related offense.

Meanwhile, many companies are thriving within the legal cannabis landscape. A clear example is Green Hygienics Holdings Inc. (OTCQB: GRYN). This California-based company has 848 acres used to cultivate hemp, which is USDA Certified Organic. This is by far the largest such farm on the entire North American subcontinent.

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On November 3 last year, voters in New Jersey overwhelmingly approved a ballot question asking whether the state should allow adults aged 21 and over to sell, possess and use cannabis. The Legislature and Cannabis Regulatory Commission was tasked with creating a regulatory framework for recreational cannabis, with a constitutional amendment that would officially legalize cannabis kicking in on Jan. 1, 2021. However, with lawmakers still negotiating key sections of the legislation, the state still hasn’t passed legislation that would launch the recreational market.

Robert Williams, a retired constitutional law professor at Rutgers Law School, says that nearly two months after voters approved cannabis legalization, the commission hasn’t created any regulations or implemented any laws, a situation he calls “odd.” Although state lawmakers have already crafted and passed enabling legislation consisting of two bills to set the ball rolling, Gov. Phil Murphy hasn’t signed any legislation into law.

The governor, who had cannabis legalization as one of his campaign platforms, is holding off on signing the legislation until lawmakers add a provision to levy fines on underage marijuana users. According to a proposed change his office sent to legislators, anyone younger than 21 found with one ounce or less of cannabis would be fined $250 while the possession of one to six ounces of cannabis would carry a $500 fine. Along with decriminalizing cannabis, the goal was also to ensure that minors were protected, Murphy says.

Activists also argue the bills don’t do enough for the communities that were disproportionately affected by marijuana laws. Police in New Jersey are particularly tough on marijuana crimes, with Black people being three and a half times more likely to be arrested for possession than white people, despite relatively similar usage rates. Other issues holding back the legislation include the capping of the number of available licenses for the first two years and giving employers the right to test their employees for THC.

Levying fines on underage people who use cannabis goes against the legislation’s objective, which is to limit interactions with police, especially among Black youth. ACLU of New Jersey executive director Amol Sinha asks why minors should be burdened with criminal records if the state is passing laws to clear criminal records of people with cannabis-related offenses.

With the cannabis legislation hanging in limbo, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has asked state prosecutors at all levels to dismiss or, at the very least, delay any marijuana charges that would otherwise be considered legal under the pending legislation.

Aside from the legal gymnastics going on in New Jersey, cannabis firms elsewhere are thriving. For example, Green Hygienics Holdings Inc. (OTCQB: GRYN) is poised to grow its revenue explosively given that it has a capacity to cultivate more than 800 acres of USDA Certified Organic hemp while the average hemp farm in the entire North America is only 15 acres big.

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Green Hygienics Holdings (OTCQB: GRYN) (“GHH”) has announced its engagement of the services of McAllister Garfield, P.C., a top law firm in the industrial hemp space. According to the update, Green Hygienics anticipates rapid growth in 2021 and intends to roll out an omnichannel bricks and clicks retail strategy premiering multiple premium brands layering over different market segments in the hemp industry. The company has retained McAllister Garfield, a pioneering law firm in the hemp space, to advise and assist in navigating regulatory compliance and in the roll out of cannabinoid-based product lines and retail opportunities. The firm will assist GHH to secure three business licenses in the downtown vicinity of San Diego for a hemp-centric coffee house, a smoking lounge and a dispensary. “When lawmakers tighten the belt on hemp regulations, Green Hygienics is positioning itself to sustain and thrive under the most stringent of new regulations,” said GRYN CEO Ronald Loudoun. “Navigating regulatory compliance in an emerging industry is no small task, but a very important one to our company, and retaining counsel of such an established law firm with an innate understanding of cannabis law is a necessary step as we build out our highly differentiated business model.”

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Green Hygienic Holdings (“GHH”) is a California-based, innovative, technology-driven enterprise focused on the high-standard cultivation and processing of industrial hemp and manufacturing of pharmaceutical-grade bioactive cannabinoids. GHH’s mission is to adhere to the highest standards of operations in consistently delivering safe and premium-quality products to consumers as well as to partnering with CPG (consumer-packaged-goods) and pharmaceutical companies. Green Hygienic Holdings intends to be a leader in compliances and capabilities in the hemp and cannabinoid supply marketplace. Using state-of-the-art technologies, GHH intends to open a whole new world of novel cannabinoids and targeted bio-delivery technologies never before explored, solving the issues of stability, pharmacokinetics, biological tissue penetration, and bioavailability. The company is building a team of visionary agrotechnology, pharmaceutical and life scientists working at the intersection of nutraceutical, cosmeceutical and pharmaceutical technologies with a goal to improve lives. For more information, please visit the Corporate Video Link and www.GreenHygienics.com.

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Green Hygienics Holdings (OTCQB: GRYN), an innovative, premium-cannabis cultivation and branding enterprise, on Tuesday announced that it has obtained an investment from TRITON FUNDS, a La Jolla, California-based investment firm. TRITON will take on an advisory board role with GRYN and purchase a promissory note in the principal amount of up to $750,000, which is convertible into common shares at a conversion price of $2.50 each, and a warrant to purchase up to 250,000 shares at an exercise price of $3.00 each. In accordance with the terms of the transaction documents, both the note and the warrant are subject to vesting conditions. In addition, the company revealed its new corporate website URL (www.GreenHygienics.com). “We are excited to work with TRITON and its team of vested students, alumni, scientific advisors and industry advisors,” Green Hygienics Holdings CEO Ron Loudoun stated in the news release. “Additionally, TRITON has an extensive investor network, and we anticipate these assets will help bring more awareness to the Company while potentially opening some new relationships for business development.”

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On Monday, the secretary of state’s office in South Dakota announced that a measure seeking to legalize recreational marijuana has qualified for the state’s November ballot.

In September, the former federal prosecutor, Brenda Johnson, submitted the legislation which would permit people who are 21 years and above to possess and distribute a maximum of one ounce of cannabis. The measure also allows people to grow a maximum of three marijuana plants.

The residents of South Dakota will be deciding on two separate measures during the November elections because last month, the secretary of state said that the campaign seeking to legalize medical marijuana in South Dakota had gathered more than 30,000 signatures, which is the required number for the measure to qualify for the 2020 ballot.

Under the adult-use marijuana legalization measure, the Department of Revenue in South Dakota would be tasked with the responsibility of issuing permits to the manufacturers, testing laboratories, and retailers. A tax of 15% would be imposed on all marijuana products sold, and the revenue would be used to cover the implementation of marijuana programs and public education. Some of it would be added to the state general fund.

The measure seeking to legalize medical marijuana has provisions that require the lawmakers to approve the legislation allowing patients to access medical cannabis and the sale of hemp by April 1, 2022.

The signatures required for medical marijuana to enter the ballot were 16,962, which is lower than that of recreational marijuana, which is a proposed constitutional amendment, which were 33,921 signatures.

In a press release, the Secretary of State, Steven Barnett, said that his office conducted a random sample of the submitted petition signatures and found 68.745% (36,707) of them to be valid.

Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) and New Approach PAC are both in favor of the recreational and medical marijuana measures.

Speaking to an online industry publication, the deputy director of the Marijuana Policy Project, Matthew Shweich, said that South Dakota would be the first state to legalize both medical and recreational marijuana on the same ballot in the history of America. The legalization of recreational marijuana would be of benefit to the residents of South Dakota as it would mark the end of unlawful arrests of law-abiding citizens for marijuana offenses. Instead, law enforcement will use its resources to combat severe crimes. Recreational marijuana sales will generate revenue for the state and create new jobs.

There is less likelihood of Congress passing a marijuana legalization measure this year, said Schweish, who played a significant role in the campaigns for collecting the signatures for the two initiatives.

Marijuana advocates are hopeful that the voters will approve both measures; however, they are also expecting pushback from Gov. Kristi Noem, who opposed hemp legalization legislation in 2019, as well as the state Republican Party, which urged the voters not to sign the ballot petition in September.

In the U.S., other states, such as New Jersey and Mississippi, are also going to enter their measures in the ballot for the voters to decide in November’s elections.

It is widely believed that the entire cannabis industry, including entities like Dama Financial and Green Hygienics Holdings Inc. (OTCQB: GRYN), will be following the ballot measures closely since they could determine whether the wave to legalize marijuana across the country hits a major speed bump or gathers steam.

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Green Hygienics Holdings (OTCQB: GRYN), an innovative, premium-cannabis cultivation and branding enterprise, recently appointed seasoned business executive Sid Senroy as the new head of quality and compliance. An article discussing the appointments reads, “‘This will directly support the company to achieve its stated objectives to adhere to the highest standards of operations in consistently delivering safe and premium-quality products to consumers and that the company intends to be a leader in FDA cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practice) capabilities in the hemp and CBD marketplace,’ Green Hygienics Holdings CEO Ron Loudoun stated in a news release (http://cnw.fm/Kk2Fx). . . . Senroy has successfully led several global quality and compliance business units as senior consultant or executive over the past 20 years, leading to the approval of key blockbuster drugs with total sales exceeding $30 billion annually over the last decade.”

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Green Hygienics Holdings (OTCQB: GRYN), an innovative, premium-cannabis cultivation and branding enterprise, named four professional managers to its board as part of the company’s endeavors to build its leadership in the rapidly growing industrial-hemp market (http://cnw.fm/0oWvU). A recent article discussing the appointments reads, “According to Green Hygienics Holdings CEO Ron Loudoun, each of the four professionals joining the team adds considerable value to the company’s growth strategy. ‘The industrial-hemp industry is paced for revolutionary progress, and I am pleased to welcome these gentlemen as we compete in this incredible market,’ he said. . . . A Research and Markets report indicates that the global industrial-hemp market is projected to grow from $4.6 billion in 2019 to $26.6 billion by 2025, recording a CAGR of 34%. The increase will be mainly driven by factors such as widespread legalization of industrial-hemp cultivation and the growing use of hemp seed and hemp-seed oil in different food and medical applications.”

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Green Hygienics Holdings is an innovative, full-scope, science-driven, premium-hemp branding enterprise focused on the cultivation and processing of industrial hemp for cannabidiol (“CBD”). The Hemp Farming Act of 2018 removed hemp from Schedule I controlled substances (defined as cannabis with less than 0.3% THC), making it an ordinary agricultural commodity. GRYN’s mission is to grow the company in a sustainable and profitable manner to be one of the largest industrial hemp-for-CBD producers in North America. The company will adhere to the highest standards of operations in consistently delivering safe and premium-quality products to consumers. GRYN intends to be a leader in FDA cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practice) capabilities in the hemp and CBD marketplace. The company’s business model includes generating revenues from the sale of hemp and premium-grade CBD products, creating trusted global consumer brands, developing valuable IP and growing the company rapidly through strategic acquisitions. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.GreenHygienicsHoldings.com.

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