Nevada Medical Pot Patients Can Sue Former Employer If Fired, Court Rules

If you’re a medical cannabis patient in Nevada, smoke up: medical cannabis patients in the state were recently empowered to consume cannabis on their own time after a landmark decision in court. On December 1, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that employees in the state have the right to sue their former employees if they […]

Senator Files Bill To Prep for Federal Cannabis Legalization

Democratic Senator John Hickenlooper of Colorado on Thursday introduced legislation designed to prepare the country for national cannabis legalization, laying the groundwork for drafting regulations to govern legal marijuana at the federal level. The bill, the Preparing Regulators Effectively for a Post-Prohibition Adult Use Regulated Environment (PREPARE) Act, directs the U.S. attorney general to develop […]

Study Finds Weed Cases Are Clogging Pennsylvania Courts

Marijuana-related criminal cases are clogging local courts in Pennsylvania and putting an unnecessary burden on scarce law enforcement resources, according to a new study from a justice reform advocacy organization. The Lehigh Valley Justice Institute, a nonpartisan research and advocacy group based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, reviewed 27,826 criminal cases of all kinds prosecuted in Lehigh […]

Will LA’s Social Equity Retail Licensing Be Stopped?

This Thursday, December 8, 2022, the City of Los Angeles will open Phase 3, Round 2 of storefront retail licensing. The City will only accept applications from verified social equity applicants. It will select winners via a “triple-blind” lottery, awarding up to 100 retail licenses. But a guy in Michigan is trying to prevent the […]

Man tells police he bought luxury car with cannabis — if only the vehicle hadn’t been reported as stolen

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Medical cannabis linked with less opioid use from cancer patients

Legal medical marijuana has been linked with reduced opioid use according to a new study conducted by the American Medical Association. Results add more evidence to the argument that legal marijuana can curb and manage opioid use, and could have a significant impact on the opioid crisis. The study, published in JAMA Oncology, analyzed the […]

DOJ shares cannabis banking concerns with Congress (Newsletter: December 5, 2022)

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Boom times are over: 10 years after Colorado legalized recreational marijuana

When Colorado voters legalized recreational marijuana in 2012, no other state had launched a legal adult-use market, and there was no road map. Dave Malone, co-founder and chief creative officer for Denver-based vertically integrated cannabis company Green Dot Labs, likened it to bushwhacking through the wilderness at night. “We’ve been in the dark with a […]

Legislators are poised to close a loophole which lets kiwi convenience stores to trade as specialist vape retailers

Allowing convenience stores to operate as ‘specialist vape retailers’ makes a mockery of New Zealand’s vaping laws, it has been claimed. Under legislation introduced in 2020 only licenced specialist vape retailers are allowed to sell a full range of flavours. Other establishments are limited to selling products in just three flavours – mint, menthol and […]

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