Kansas Lawmakers Create Special Medical Marijuana Committee To Prepare Issue This Summer For 2023 Action
Kansas lawmakers on Thursday voted to form a dedicated committee to work on medical marijuana issues this summer in the hopes that reform legislation will be ready to pass when the legislature returns for business early in 2023. The bicameral Legislative Coordinating Council voted to create a number of committeesContinue Reading
American Medical Association Approves Marijuana Expungements Resolution And Addresses ‘Over-Medicalization’ Of Cannabis
Members of the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to adopt a measure this week expressing support for expunging prior marijuana records in states that have legalized cannabis. The organization’s House of Delegates—which maintains an overarching policy opposing legalization—also approved separate resolutions addressing the “over-medicalization” of cannabis and criticizing the marketingContinue Reading
Will the Supreme Court Legalize Cannabis?
A great dark cloud hangs over the bright and sunny success of marijuana legalization in the US: federal law, which still declares cannabis an outlaw plant. This status quo causes great distress to American cannabis businesses and those still in federal prisons for marijuana offenses. Despite all the progress atContinue Reading
Will the Supreme Court Legalize Cannabis?
A great dark cloud hangs over the bright and sunny success of marijuana legalization in the US: federal law, which still declares cannabis an outlaw plant. This status quo causes great distress to American cannabis businesses and those still in federal prisons for marijuana offenses. Despite all the progress atContinue Reading
Teen Marijuana Use Dropped Dramatically In Colorado In 2021, State Study Finds
Adolescent marijuana use in Colorado declined significantly in 2021, according to the latest version of a biennial state survey released on Wednesday. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s (CDPHE) Healthy Kids Colorado Survey found that young people were 35 percent less likely to use cannabis in 2021 thanContinue Reading
Death and (excise) taxes: Why Canadian cannabis brands are struggling to survive
Cannabis excise taxes are squeezing Canada’s craft producers and their bottom line. Can you imagine if liquor was taxed by alcohol percentage? The post Death and (excise) taxes: Why Canadian cannabis brands are struggling to survive appeared first on Leafly. Read More: Death and (excise) taxes: Why CanadianContinue Reading
DOJ to address cannabis in ‘days ahead,’ AG says (Newsletter: June 17, 2022)
Lawmakers push state marijuana protections; Veterans cannabis bill coming; Feds creating national medical marijuana registry Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. (function() { window.mc4wp = window.mc4wp || { listeners:Continue Reading
Here’s why Discord is weed’s hottest platform in 2022
Subscribe to these 9 elite breeder servers on Discord. The post Here’s why Discord is weed’s hottest platform in 2022 appeared first on Leafly. Read More: Here’s why Discord is weed’s hottest platform in 2022Continue Reading
Bipartisan Congressmen Urge Support For Medical Marijuana Bill For Military Veterans They’ll Be Introducing Soon
A bipartisan push to provide military veterans with access to medical marijuana is underway again, with the sponsors of a reform proposal circulating a letter to congressional colleagues on Wednesday asking them to support the legislation, which they plan to introduce in Congress soon. The Veterans Equal Access Act fromContinue Reading
Congressional Lawmakers Seek Broad Marijuana Protections For Legal States In Key Spending Bill Coming Next Week
Congressional lawmakers are urging House leaders to include broad protections for states, territories and tribes that choose to legalize marijuana as part of a key spending bill that’s expected to be introduced next week. Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Tom McClintock (R-CA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Barbara Lee (D-CA), alongContinue Reading