Watch Live: Minnesota Senate Debates And Votes On Marijuana Legalization Bill Days After House Companion Passes

The Minnesota Senate on Friday is debating and voting on a bill to legalize marijuana that advanced through 13 committees. If the measure is approved, it will set the stage for a conference with the House to resolve differences with a companion reform measure that the chamber passed on Tuesday. This Senate floor action comes […]

Missouri to issue 48 marijuana microbusiness licenses in October

Missouri plans to license an initial round of 48 cannabis microbusinesses, to be awarded via a lottery in October. The microbusiness licenses “are designed to allow marginalized or under-represented individuals to participate in the legal marijuana market,” according to new release issued by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS). ADVERTISEMENT Microbusiness retail […]

Marijuana Advocates And Industry Groups React To Marijuana Banking Bill Refiling, As Key Senator Raises Early Concerns

A bipartisan marijuana banking bill that House and Senate lawmakers refiled this week is getting praise from many of the major marijuana industry stakeholders and financial institutions who’ve backed earlier versions of the reform. And key advocates— including critics of the measure’s limited equity provisions—are giving tepid support for revisions in the latest version, urging […]

Oregon Cannabis: Employment Law Issues for Struggling Businesses

We all know the Oregon cannabis industry is struggling. We write often about the causes on a macro level, possible solutions, and what we see as business litigators. We haven’t written much about one of the basic areas of employment law that applies to Oregon marijuana businesses: workers rights to wages and employer responsibilities. As […]

House Speaker Pledges To Give Marijuana Legalization Bill A Committee Vote, GOP Congresswoman Says

The Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has agreed to hold a committee debate and vote on a bill to federally legalize marijuana, the GOP congresswoman who is sponsoring the legislation says. As one condition of her support for leadership’s unrelated proposal to raise the debt ceiling and cut various federal programs, Rep. […]

California Cannabis Department Grants Nearly $20 Million to Academic Institutions

The California Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) granted $19,942,918 to 16 academic institutions with plans to research cannabis on April 26. The grants will be dedicated to research initiatives exploring the effectiveness of cannabis on “mental health of young people, novel cannabinoids like Delta-8 and Delta-10 THC, and a first-of-its kind study of California’s legacy cannabis […]

GOP Senators Kill Veterans Cannabis Research Bill

Republicans in the U.S. Senate voted this week to block a bill that would have directed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct research into cannabis as a treatment for chronic pain and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In a procedural vote on Wednesday, the Senate declined to advance the Veterans Affairs Medicinal Cannabis Research […]

Twitter Refines Weed Policy To Allow Packaged Products and More

Twitter is opening the door for advertisers of packaged weed products, the Associated Press reports, with refined changes to the announcement that it will begin allowing THC ads in addition to CBD ads last February.  The new changes will allow packaged cannabis products in ad creative and include updated medical and adult-use cannabis markets. It’s […]

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