Bill Restricting Consumable Hemp Products Heads to Governor’s Desk Image Cannabis News April 4, 2024 Iowa Senate Passes Bills Tightening Regulations on Hemp Products and Cannabis Dispensaries. The Iowa Senate sent Governor Kim Reynolds a bill Tuesday that tightens Iowa’s laws and regulations on consumable hemp products as the productsContinue Reading
Legal Marijuana Is Making Roads Deadlier Image Cannabis News April 4, 2024 Cannabis-related traffic fatalities are a threat to public safety, but governments need to get serious. Marijuana legalization is killing a lot of people. Not slowly — though some studies suggest that it may be doing that, too —Continue Reading
Is Marijuana decriminalization helping Chinese mafias in the U.S.? Image Cannabis News April 4, 2024 Cannabis farms have become a source of mayhem that needs to be contained. Chinese gangsters are taking advantage of a patchwork of marijuana legislation across the United States to expand their criminal enterprises, setting upContinue Reading
In today’s cannabis industry, there’s an immense array of products ranging from flower to cartridges, concentrates and extracts, to edibles and topicals. And then there are all of the ancillary smoking accessories: pipes, rolling paper kits, bongs, vapes, dab-rigs—you name it. There are also lifestyle products created for the cannabisContinue Reading
Massachusetts officials have unanimously approved the governor’s proposal to pardon thousands of people with misdemeanor marijuana convictions of their records. The relief is effective immediately. The Governor’s Council voted 7-0 on Wednesday to give consent to Gov. Maura Healey’s (D) clemency plan that she announced last month. The record sealingContinue Reading
A federal court has granted the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss a challenge from a Pennsylvania-based harm reduction center that’s been seeking to open an overdose prevention site where people could use currently illicit drugs in a supervised setting while receiving treatment resources. In an order and attached memo onContinue Reading
Lawmakers in Missouri’s House of Representatives have given preliminary approval to a budget bill that would spend $10 million from state opioid settlement funds on research grants to study the use of psilocybin to treat opioid use disorder. The measure, HB 2010, underwent several amendments in the House on TuesdayContinue Reading
Jesse Ventura, the former wrestling star and governor of Minnesota, is promoting a line of “hand-selected” cannabis products under his new brand that he says he’d “offer to you if you were visiting me in the Governor’s mansion.” Ventura first announced the launch of Jesse Ventura Farms, a hemp brandContinue Reading
“The commission has awarded licenses three times now, and they’re still in court.” By Jemma Stephenson, Alabama Reflector An Alabama Senate bill filed Tuesday would significantly increase the number of medical marijuana production licenses amid a months-long legal dispute over the process of awarding existing licenses. SB 276, sponsored byContinue Reading
The Florida campaign behind a marijuana legalization initiative that will be on the November ballot has announced that it’s raised an additional $15 million from a variety of major cannabis companies as it gears up for an effort to raise awareness about the measure among voters. Two days after theContinue Reading
