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19/09/2018

Denver could essentially legalize psychedelic mushrooms by next spring if a group of local activists has its way. But they have a few hurdles to overcome first. This week, members of Denver for Psilocybin handed in to city officials a pair of municipal initiatives aimed at removing penalties for pos...

12/09/2018

Lawmakers have removed language from pending federal legislation that sought to facilitate veterans’ access to medical cannabis in jurisdictions that regulate it. The decision to strip out the Veterans Equal Access Amendment flies in the face of the horrific medical realities that our nation’s h...

11/09/2018

WASHINGTON, DC — US Senators Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Brian Schatz (D-HI) have introduced legislation, The Veterans Medical Ma*****na Safe Harbor Act, to expand and facilitate medical cannabis access to military veterans suffering from chronic pain, PTSD, and other serious medical conditions. Under ...

04/09/2018

Delaware’s Democrat Governor John Carney signed legislation into law today vacating past ma*****na convictions. Senate Bill 197, which took immediate effect, “provides mandatory expungement eligibility to individuals who were convicted of the possession [of one ounce or less], use or consumption...

28/08/2018

The Alaska Ma*****na Control Board, which oversees the state’s regulatory system for cannabis, has released proposed rules governing on-site consumption of cannabis at approved locations. Members of the public are invited to review and provide written comments on the proposed rules by 4:30 p.m. on...

25/08/2018

WASHINGTON, DC — The National Organization for the Reform of Ma*****na Laws (NORML) is endorsing North Dakota’s voter-initiated, adult use ma*****na legalization effort, Measure 3. “NORML is pleased to support the grassroots Measure 3 campaign. With state legislators continuing to drag their f...

20/08/2018

North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger announced Monday that a ma*****na legalization initiative sponsored by the grassroots group Legalize ND has qualified for the November ballot. The group had handed in more than 17,000 raw signatures last month and needed 13,452 valid voter signatures to qual...

15/08/2018

WASHINGTON, DC — The nation’s largest organization dedicated exclusively to ma*****na policy, the Ma*****na Policy Project, announced Tuesday it has hired Steve Hawkins to serve as its next executive director. The announcement comes after a months-long candidate search that included several exce...

14/08/2018

SAN DIEGO, CA — The use of cannabidiol (CBD) products for the treatment of either a specific health condition or for general well-being is becoming prevalent among the general public, according to survey data published in the journal Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research. Researchers at San Diego Stat...

13/08/2018

ROCHESTER, NY — Eighty-five percent of Americans believe that ma*****na “should be legalized for medical use,” and 57 percent of respondents endorse regulating it for anyone over the age of 21, according to national survey data compiled by Harris Insight & Analytics. Among younger respondents ...

02/08/2018

Starting this week, licensed medical ma*****na dispensaries in Pennsylvania will begin selling dry-leaf herbal cannabis, also known as “flower” or “bud,” in addition to other forms of medical ma*****na products already being sold, such as oils, pills and topicals. Nearly half of the dispensa...

01/08/2018

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — Some portions of Oklahoma’s voter-approved medical ma*****na law have taken effect, while state regulators continue to work to make revisions to the language of the new law. Last Thursday, the penalty-reduction piece of Oklahoma’s medical ma*****na initiative became operati...

28/07/2018

TRENTON, NJ — State Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has shaken up New Jersey’s ma*****na politics with an announcement Tuesday that he has ordered county and municipal prosecutors to defer all ma*****na-related cases until early September. The move was an unexpected response to a squabble over wh...

27/07/2018

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) campaigned on, among other things, a promise to legalize ma*****na in his first 100 days in office. That didn’t happen. It may not happen at all this year, and state Sen. Ronald Rice (D) is one major reason why. Ma*****na legalization advocates led by Senate Judicia...

18/07/2018

The New Jersey Department of Health announced on Monday that it will begin accepting applications for six additional businesses to grow, process, and sell medical ma*****na in the Garden State. The state aims to locate two each in the northern, central and southern regions of New Jersey.

17/07/2018

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15/07/2018

Older Americans are using cannabis more frequently than ever before, according to a review of demographic data published in the journal Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine. A pair of investigators at the University of Florida reviewed 18 peer-reviewed studies published between the years 2000 and 2017...

12/07/2018

Legislation to significantly expand patients’ access to medical cannabis in Maine will become law later this fall following Monday’s decision by lawmakers to override Governor Paul LePage’s veto. By a vote of 119 to 23 in the House and 25 to 8 in the Senate, Maine lawmakers rejected Gov. Paul ...

09/07/2018

PHOENIX, AZ — A ruling from the Arizona Court of Appeals has found that the possession of concentrated forms of cannabis resin is not protected by the state’s voter-initiated medical ma*****na access law, the Arizona Medical Ma*****na Act. The 2 to 1 decision upholds the two-and-one-half year pr...

08/07/2018

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — Republican Gov. Mary Fallin has scrapped plans to convene a special legislative session for the purposes of amending provisions of State Question 788 – the medical ma*****na access initiative approved by voters last week. On Friday, Fallin – who publicly campaigned against ...

07/07/2018

MONTPELIER, VT — Legislation permitting adults to legally possess and grow set quantities of cannabis for their own personal use took effect on Sunday, July 1. Vermont joins Alaska, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington in legalizing t...

04/07/2018

MONTPELIER, VT — July 1, 2018 will go down in Vermont’s history as the day the state officially stopped punishing adults for consuming ma*****na. Residents of Vermont are seeing the fruits of our movement’s tireless efforts to reform harmful and ill-conceived ma*****na laws. As of Sunday, adul...

30/06/2018

On the evening of June 27, the Delaware House of Representatives voted 21-15 (with five not voting) to legalize, tax, and regulate ma*****na for adults. This was only the third time that the majority of a state legislative chamber voted to legalize and regulate ma*****na. Unfortunately, however, a m...

29/06/2018

One of the reddest of red states went green on Tuesday, when voters in Oklahoma approved a remarkably progressive medical ma*****na initiative by a healthy margin of 56% to 43%. The initiative, State Question 778, allows registered patients to possess up to three ounces of ma*****na anywhere and up....

28/06/2018

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — A majority of Oklahomans voted on Tuesday to enact State Question 788 — a statewide voter-initiated measure that permits doctors to use their discretion to recommend medical cannabis to those patients who will benefit from it. Oklahoma is now the 31st state to legalize and re...

27/06/2018

26/06/2018

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — Oklahoma voters will decide on Tuesday on State Question 788 – a statewide voter-initiated measure that permits doctors to use their discretion to recommend medical cannabis to patients. Under the proposed plan, licensed medical ma*****na patients may cultivate up to six matu...

21/06/2018

Last night, the Canadian Senate approved The Cannabis Act, making Canada the second country in the world to legally regulate all aspects of the ma*****na market – including production, sale and consumption – following Uruguay’s historic move to do so in 2013. The bill has already passed the Ho...

19/06/2018

OTTAWA, ON — Members of the Canadian Senate voted late last week in favor of Bill C-45, sweeping legislation amending the federal Controlled Drugs and Substances Act so that those over the age of 18 may legally possess, purchase, and grow personal use quantities of cannabis. Since Senate members a...