The New York Cannabis Control Board approved draft rules allowing home cultivation of recreational marijuana and signed off on more than 100 new business licenses as a top regulator acknowledged the "rocky start" for the legal market this year.
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JUST IN: The South Carolina Senate has given final passage to a bill to legalize medical cannabis, sending it to the House of Representatives for consideration.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says officials in the state "don’t even have a choice anymore" on legalizing marijuana "given the way in which this is moving so quickly across our region and across the country."
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Bill To Legalize Marijuana In Germany Advances After State Representatives Fail To Block It: Now the chamber's comments will go to the federal government cabinet, which drafted the legalization legislation.
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NEW: The Congressional Research Service said it is "likely" the DEA will accept a marijuana rescheduling recommendation—adding that such a move would have "broad implications" for taxes, housing, immigration, military service, employment and more.
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NEW STUDY of military veterans finds that medical cannabis "was reported to improve quality of life and reduce unwanted medication use"—indicating that it can "play a harm-reduction role, helping veterans to use fewer pharmaceutical medications."
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said marijuana banking legislation is on the body's summer agenda—though he stressed that GOP support will be needed and he didn't mention his previously expressed plan to attach cannabis expungements to @SAFEbanking
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Maryland Police Won't Be Able To Use Marijuana Odor As Basis For Searches Under Bill That Governor Has Allowed To Become Law: The measure will also lower the fine for public cannabis consumption from $250 to $50.
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BOOM: Maryland lawmakers passed a bill to prevent police from using the smell of marijuana as justification for searching people or vehicles.
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BREAKING: The Texas House of Representatives approved a bill to allow doctors to recommend medical cannabis as an opioid alternative for chronic pain while also replacing the current THC potency cap.
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Baseball player Jon Singleton is making a comeback after having been suspended for marijuana several times.
These days, MLB has removed cannabis from its banned substances list & has a partnership with a CBD company.
Does the league owe him an apology?
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NEW STUDY: Marijuana enhances "sexual functioning and satisfaction, particularly increased desire and orgasm intensity" and can "potentially close the orgasm inequality gap" between men and women.
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YIKES: Police in Hays, Kansas raided a terminally ill cancer patient's hospital room over his use of medical cannabis extracts.
Democratic lawmakers are renewing their call to legalize medical marijuana in 2023.
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Stop saying that marijuana reform is "only a mater of time."
That's false.
It is a matter of extremely hard work by dedicated activists holding policymakers to account.
Time alone does not change the laws.
Relentless advocacy over time changes laws.
If @JoeBiden and Congress agree that Brittney Griner should be set free, then they must free all of our friends and family locked up for marijuana here at home too. #ThatsTheTweet
Colorado Voters Approve Psychedelics Legalization Ballot Initiative: Psilocybin, ibogaine, mescaline, DMT and psilocyn will be legalized for adults 21 and older, and the state will create "healing centers" for supervised use. https://t.co/PlSprFUwfo
LOL. Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman sent a fundraising email with the subject line "Nightmare blunt rotation" about a gathering of Republican politicians including Mehmet Oz, Marco Rubio and Rick Scott.
As you read the news about Brittney Griner's marijuana verdict today, do not let the fact that Russia's drug laws are especially egregious and unjust obscure the fact that the U.S.'s drug laws are also egregious and unjust—and the president is doing virtually nothing about it.
YIKES: President Joe Biden's daughter-in-law reportedly shopped at a marijuana dispensary—accompanied by taxpayer-funded Secret Service protection—while the president leaves his campaign promises to free cannabis prisoners unfulfilled.
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