After South Dakota’s Election Day defeat of adult-use legalization, an emboldened lawmaker is moving to repeal the state’s medical cannabis law. South Dakota lawmaker moves to repeal state’s medical cannabis law is a post from: MJBizDaily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs Read More: South DakotaContinue Reading
Virginia lawmakers advanced a handful of drug policy bills this week—including measures to legalize commercial cannabis sales in the commonwealth, seal records related to marijuana and begin planning access to psychedelic-assisted therapy for veterans. The legal cannabis sales legislation is now set to be considered on the floors of bothContinue Reading
Ohio Republican lawmakers are reviving an effort to significantly alter the state’s voter-approved marijuana legalization law—in part by raising the tax on cannabis products, halving the number of plants adults could grow and eliminating certain social equity provisions. While GOP leadership has generally pledged that they will not seek toContinue Reading
Colorado’s second-most-populated city will hold a special election in April to overturn a recreational marijuana legalization measure that voters approved in November. Key Colorado city aims to overturn voter-approved recreational marijuana is a post from: MJBizDaily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs Read More: Key ColoradoContinue Reading
A House panel in Hawaii has advanced legislation that would protect state-registered medical marijuana patients from discrimination in the workplace. The bill, HB 325, would prevent employers from using a person’s status as a medical marijuana cardholder against them when making hiring, firing or other employment-related decisions, with some limitations.Continue Reading
The hemp law has prompted confusion among business owners and state officials since Gov. Phil Murphy signed the law in September. By Sophie Nieto-Muñoz, New Jersey Monitor Hemp companies suing New Jersey over a law that bans intoxicating hemp product sales are in “ongoing discussions” that could resolve the dispute, according to aContinue Reading
Business transformation expert Terry Mendez will become CEO of Safe Harbor Financial after Sundie Seefried retires from the cannabis financial services company in the next 30 days. Sundie Seefried, CEO of Safe Harbor cannabis financial services firm, is retiring is a post from: MJBizDaily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news forContinue Reading
Legislative committees in Washington State this week gave initial hearings to a handful of marijuana-related bills, including proposals that would allow direct-to-consumer sales by licensed cannabis growers and finally end the state’s felony criminalization of home cultivation. While lawmakers have not yet held votes on either of the two measures,Continue Reading
The campaign behind a Florida marijuana legalization ballot initiative “tricked” President Donald Trump into endorsing the reform, a state GOP senator says. Sen. Jon Martin (R) claimed in an interview with Florida’s Voice that the Smart & Safe Florida campaign deliberately misled the public about the cannabis initiative, which receivedContinue Reading
A South Dakota man who unsuccessfully attempted to repeal the state’s voter-approved medical marijuana law at the ballot last year is taking a different approach in 2025. As a newly elected state lawmaker, conservative activist Travis Ismay is now seeking to end the program legislatively with a new bill heContinue Reading
