WIRE: House Committee holds hearings on marijuana laws, racism and justice reform
Washington, DC — The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security held a hearing Wednesday entitled “Marijuana Laws in America: Racial [...]
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WIRE: 63 percent of adults now support national cannabis legalization
New York, NY — About 63 percent of US adults believe that the personal use of cannabis ought to be legal in every state in the country, according to nationwide polling [...]
WIRE: House small business chair introduces bill to end cannabis prohibition
Washington, DC — House Small Business Committee Chairwoman Nydia Velázquez, and Representatives Jared Golden and Dwight Evans have introduced a package of legislation, [...]
WIRE: Illinois Gov signs bill legalizing recreational cannabis
Elmhurst, Illinois — Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s signed The Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (HB1438-SFA2) today, making Illinois the eleventh state to legalize and [...]
WIRE: House votes to protect legal marijuana states
Washington, DC: Today, the House of Representatives voted 267 to 165 in favor of the bipartisan Blumenauer-McClintock-Norton amendment, named for Representatives Earl [...]
WIRE: Homeland Security memo aims to deny new citizenship to marijuana users
Washington, DC: Those applying for US citizenship may be denied if they have personally used marijuana, or if they have been employed in the cannabis industry — [...]
WIRE: More than 25 percent of House sign on to marijuana banking act
Washington, DC: More than one-quarter of US House members have signed on to newly introduced legislation to facilitate greater access to banking for state-licensed cannabis [...]
WIRE: Potency of commercial CBD products often mislabeled
New York, NY: Independent testing of a random sampling of commercially marketed CBD-infused products finds that their potency is frequently mislabeled, according to a NBC 4 [...]
WIRE: Colorado retail cannabis sales crest $6 billion
Denver, CO: Over $6 billion of cannabis and cannabis-infused products have been legally sold by licensed retailers in Colorado since 2014, according to data provided by the [...]
WIRE: Denver city lawmakers extend cannabis social use initiative
Denver, CO: Members of the Denver City Council voted 10 to 1 this week to make permanent an ordinance that permits the licensing of marijuana-specific social use [...]