This week’s update highlights important advancements of legislation in Maryland, New Hampshire, and Delaware, and additional important movements in Pennsylvania, Maine, Illinois and other states. Pennsylvania NORML opposes SB749, which will make it easier for employees in “safety sensitive” occupations to be terminated and denied unemployment compensation if an employer makes a “good faith” determination […]
Select retailers will begin selling marijuana and cannabis-infused products to those ages 21 and older on Thursday, April 21, Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy announced late yesterday. Earlier this week, state regulators gave approval for several existing medical cannabis retailers to begin also providing cannabis to the adult use market. “I want our legal adult-use cannabis […]
Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin is seeking to re-criminalize certain activities specific to the possession of marijuana in Virginia. The Governor has proposed an amendment in the nature of a substitute to SB 591 which would create two new misdemeanors for personal marijuana possession. Currently, the personal possession of more than one ounce of marijuana by […]
New York, NY – Today, the Journal of the American Medical Association released a research letter showing an alarming spike in teen overdose deaths between 2020 and 2021 after decades of low and stable rates. Conducted by Joseph Friedman and colleagues, the study found that among young people ages 14-18, the overdose death rate doubled […]
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has signed HB 933 and SB 671, to provide numerous operational improvements to the state’s medical cannabis program, including eliminating the requirement that patients register with the Board of Pharmacy after receiving their written certification from a registered practitioner. “These legislative improvements will bring great relief to the thousands of Virginians […]
All eyes are on the Senate now that the House has passed their own Marijuana legalization legislation, and Schumer has been promising action for a long time now. However, signs are pointing to legislation hitting the Senate floor by the end of this month, and we’re starting to get some opinions from Senators on the […]
This week’s update highlights important legalization advancement in Maryland, medical cannabis advancement in South Carolina, and additional important movements in Delaware, Illinois and other states. California Twenty-five years after the passage of Prop. 215, California still has many regions lacking access to medicinal cannabis on account of the enactment of local bans on licensed providers. […]
Hemp and marijuana are entirely separate from each other in the eyes of the law. However, that doesn’t stop a new hemp-infused beverage to affect a drug test for Marines and Navy sailors. An advisory was sent out to all members of the Navy that warns them against drinking Rockstar’s Passion Fruit drink with hemp […]
Social equity has become a hand-in-hand term next to marijuana. It’s been the ticket to making pot a nationwide talking point in politics, giving it a sense of urgency that the image of a pothead doesn’t elicit. But the road to making that happen is proving to be extremely complicated for some states, including California. […]
Voters in several states are anticipated to decide on marijuana-related ballot measures in November. Here is where those efforts stand… Arkansas The group Arkansans for Compassionate Care has withdrawn its 2022 ballot initiative effort. The group says that it intends to refile for the 2024 ballot. A second statewide group, Arkansans for Marijuana Reform, is […]
