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Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law Monday authorising businesses that are already licensed to sell cannabis to serve hot food and non-alcoholic beverages. Starting next year, diners in the western US state of California can smoke cannabis at certain restaurants, thanks to a new law allowing for "cannabis cafes" akin to those... Continue Reading →
Six hundred people are still arrested every day in America for marijuana. At NORML, this is a stark reminder of why we do the work that we do and how much more still needs to be done. While nearly half of all states have moved to sensibly legalize and regulate cannabis over the past decade,... Continue Reading →
“What’s your legal authority to say, ‘Pay us $5,000 for us to consider this?’” By John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight A Rapid City medical marijuana dispensary wants help from the state Supreme Court in obtaining a license for another location. The state Department of Health wants the business to pay another $5,000 fee and complete... Continue Reading →
Amid a state challenge to a pair of Nebraska medical marijuana legalization ballot initiatives, a top cannabis law firm has released an analysis projecting that the reform would create over $925 million in economic benefits for the state through 2030. The analysis for the measures, championed by the campaign Nebraska Families 4 Medical Cannabis (NF4MC),... Continue Reading →
A New Hampshire effort to revive a bill that would have allowed medical marijuana operators in the state to open second cultivation locations—including in greenhouses, which is currently forbidden—fell short on Thursday. House lawmakers successfully voted to override the governor’s veto of the legislation, but later in the day senators opted to sustain it. The... Continue Reading →
Pennsylvania lawmakers have sent a bill to the governor to correct an omission in a law that unintentionally excluded dispensaries from state-level tax relief for the medical marijuana industry. About three months after the legislature approved a budget bill that Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) signed containing tax reform provisions as a partial workaround to a federal... Continue Reading →
Lawyers in a federal appeals court case faced off this week over when the government may lawfully disarm someone for using marijuana, with the Department of Justice (DOJ) arguing that merely a person’s recent use of the drug is sufficient to establish that they’re in violation of the law and should not legally be able... Continue Reading →
Voters in Baltimore, Maryland will vote next month on a local ballot initiative that would create a city fund to support communities disproportionately impacted by marijuana prohibition before the state enacted legalization. If approved, the effort would be supported by tax revenue from cannabis sales. While the statewide legalization law provides that 35 percent of... Continue Reading →
California-based Lowell Farms Inc. (CSE: LOWL) (OTCQX: LOWLF) is expanding into retail, announcing Wednesday it has reached agreements to manage two Los Angeles dispensaries with an option to buy them. According to a management services agreement, Lowell Farms’ wholly owned subsidiary, Mercati Dei Fiori, LLC, assumed operational management of the retail stores – Rose Collective... Continue Reading →
A new scientific review says cannabis oil may help promote the healing of skin wounds, finding that it offers “promising benefits” despite a need to better optimize product formulations. The report, by researchers at universities in India and Thailand, looked specifically at how cannabis oil can reduce so-called “reactive oxygen species” (ROS) during the healing... Continue Reading →
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