Legalization Amendment To Be Added to Missouri Constitution

Missouri’s state constitution will have a new entry this week, with the voter-approved recreational cannabis amendment slated to be added on Thursday.  The Springfield News-Leader reports that while Amendment 3, which was approved by Missouri voters in last month’s election, will be added to the state constitution this week, “Missourians won’t be impacted by the […]

Dispensaries’ Cashless ATM Transactions Get The Ax

Cannabis dispensaries in several states were left scrambling to find ways to process transactions without cash when a popular workaround to federal banking regulations known as cashless ATMs stopped working for many retailers beginning last week. Cashless ATMs, also known as “point of banking” systems, allow customers to use bank cards instead of cash at […]

New Mexico Company Supports Medical Pot Patients With Workers’ Compensation Access

Bennabis Health recently announced that its medical cannabis program is now available to patients living in New Mexico. The company has partnered with AltaVida Dispensary, located in Albuquerque, to help aid medical cannabis patients, specifically with workers’ compensation cases involving a patient seeking to use cannabis as medicine for chronic pain. “This is a tremendously […]

Minnesota Files Lawsuit Against Several Companies for Illicit Edible Sales

The state of Minnesota said Monday that it is suing a trio of businesses for alleged violations of the state’s edible cannabinoid laws, saying that they are selling products that contain up to 50 times the permitted amount of THC.  The lawsuit filed by the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy targets three companies, one of which, […]

California Large Licensing Gets Really Small

California law required the state Department of Cannabis Control to begin accepting large license applications on January 1, 2023. Earlier this year, DCC published proposed large licensing regulations (which I described here). As usually happens, on December 5, 2022, DCC dropped its second set of modifications to the proposed regulations. When DCC’s rules take effect, […]

Cannabis sector layoffs continue as Weedmaps cuts 25% of staff

The parent company of cannabis advertising platform Weedmaps is laying off roughly 25% of its staff, or up to 175 employees. ADVERTISEMENT “This decision was based on cost-reduction initiatives intended to reduce operating expenses and sharpen the company’s focus on key growth priorities,” WM Technology disclosed in a Nov. 29 regulatory filing. WM Technology said […]

Identifying ‘Chemical X’: How chemists discovered a drug never before seen in Australia

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Do benefits-covered patients offer a path to growth for Canadian medical cannabis companies?

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D.C. Council Approves Bill To Eliminate Medical Marijuana License Caps, Promote Equity, Provide Tax Relief And More

Washington, D.C. lawmakers approved a bill on Tuesday that would make fundamental changes to the medical marijuana program in the nation’s capital—including by eliminating cannabis business licensing caps, providing tax relief to operators, further promoting social equity and creating new regulated business categories such as on-site consumption facilities and cannabis cooking classes. It would also […]

Harmful & Dangerous | YouTube Forces Label on Vape Content Creators | RegWatch

Harmful & Dangerous | YouTube Forces Label on Vape Content Creators | RegWatch Content creators on YouTube are being forced into a terrible choice either self-mark pro-vaping content as “harmful & dangerous” or face a litany of warnings, restrictions, and inevitable channel strikes. With three strikes, YouTube deletes your entire channel erasing all videos and […]

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