Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday that he and his colleagues are “very close” to passing legislation that would authorize financial institutions to provide services to cannabis businesses. Speaking during a debate in his New York senate race, Schumer signaled that the SAFE Banking Act may finally be close to earning full passage. “I […]
The wholesale value of marijuana across 15 adult-use states has reached $5 billion—making it the sixth most valuable cash crop in the country, above potatoes and rice—according to a new report. And that’s not even accounting for the massive medical cannabis market that provides for patients in almost two dozen other states. Leafly’s 2022 Cannabis […]
Research into a Nazca ritual site in Peru has determined that a child sacrificed more than a thousand years ago as part of a religious ceremony had consumed the psychedelic drug mescaline prior to execution. Scientists made the discovery by analyzing a single hair from the head of a child whose head had been severed […]
Nevada marijuana regulators say they received 100 applications for the state’s first-ever marijuana consumption lounge licenses during a short submission window last month, with plans to begin issuing approvals in “early 2023.” The Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB) started accepting the applications on October 14 and closed submissions on October 27. This comes more than […]
Virginia authorities announced the results of a recent survey on the dangers of cannabis-impaired driving, but things didn’t go exactly as planned: Officials said that the survey shows “unsettling” and “alarming” attitudes about how safe it is to drive when under the influence of pot. The Virginia Cannabis Control Authority (CCA) released new survey results […]
Join Harris Bricken attorney Griffen Thorne for a panel discussion at this year’s Cannabis Business Virtual Symposium hosted by the California Society of CPAs (CalCPA). Griffen will be joined by Juli Crockett, a cannabis compliance consultant, to discuss changes for cannabis and hemp businesses in the United States with an emphasis on California. Event description […]
With one week until the Election Day, Missouri activists still need to sway a small portion of voters to approve a marijuana legalization initiative that’s on the ballot, a new poll suggests. The Emerson College/The Hill survey conducted for local TV news stations in the state found that 47 percent of very likely voters back […]
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) says he wants to see marijuana federally legalized, in part so that his state’s cannabis farmers can “legally supply the rest of the nation.” The governor made the remarks in a video that played at the Oakland International Film Festival in September, where activists gave a sneak preview screening of […]