Bipartisan and bicameral New Hampshire lawmakers have reached an agreement on creating a commission that will study the feasibility of legalizing marijuana through a state-run model and proposing legislation to enact the reform. Members of a House-Senate conference committee voted on Wednesday to incorporate the cannabis commission compromise into aContinue Reading
A key National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) panel last week recommended that cannabis be removed from the collegiate sports association’s list of banned substances after finding that marijuana is not a performance-enhancing drug. The decision from the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports (CSMAS), which wasContinue Reading
Nevada regulators have approved the state’s first conditional licenses for marijuana consumption lounges—bringing three operators one step closer to opening the cannabis social use spaces for adults. The Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB) first announced in November that it had granted 40 prospective consumption lounge licenses for businesses that hadContinue Reading
A bill to legalize marijuana in Colombia has stalled out for the year after the Senate failed to advance it with enough support during a final vote on Tuesday—even though a simple majority of senators who were present voted in favor. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Juan Carlos Losada, wasContinue Reading
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is “confident” Congress will be able to pass a bipartisan marijuana banking bill this session—and other Democratic senators also echoed that point, according to a cannabis industry entrepreneur who spoke with the lawmakers recently. After speaking at an event focused on higher education lastContinue Reading
“Simply put, federally rescheduling cannabis does nothing to address the growing and untenable divide between state and federal cannabis laws.” By Paul Armentano, NORML Since California legalized the use of cannabis for medical purposes in 1996, there has existed a growing chasm between state-level marijuana policies and federal law. Today, theContinue Reading
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