Jay Inslee

48 New Cannabis Winners In Missouri’s Second Lottery Round Missouri's second round of the cannabis licensing lottery elected 48 applicants to obtain cannabis microbusiness permits, out of 2,000 applicants who applied between April 15-29. This was the second random lottery drawing out of...

Iowa: Senate Committee Approves Bill Adding 25% Excise Tex On Consumable Hemp Products  State Senate Ways and Means Committee passed a bill Wednesday that would place a sin tax on consumable hemp products. Under Senate Study Bill 3186 consumable hemp products would have a 25% excise tax...

Washington lawmakers recently approved a bill that would eliminate excise taxes on medical marijuana products, reported Forbes.  First introduced last year, HB 1453, provides a tax exemption to "qualifying patients and designated providers who hold a recognition card, from the...

The Washington Legislature passed a law this week to make drug possession a gross misdemeanor and to set up substance-use treatment programs, reported Crosscut. The move came just weeks after Gov. Jay Inslee (D) revealed his plans to call a special session to discuss decriminalizing the possession...

WA State To Award 52 New Social Equity Cannabis Licenses Over Next Ten Years Washington state plans to expand the recreational cannabis market by adding dozens of more marijuana retail shops over the next ten years, reported Axios Seattle. To that end, Gov. Jay Inslee (D) signed a bill on Monday -...

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) said Tuesday that he will call a special session to discuss decriminalizing the possession of controlled substances after lawmakers failed to pass a bill in the regular session. The special session is scheduled to start May 16. “My...

PA Dems Against Safe Drug Consumption Sites Four Pennsylvania lawmakers seek to end a push to launch operations in a safe drug consumption site. With the move, Sens. Sharif Street (D), Christine Tartaglione (D), Anthony Williams (D) and Jimmy Dillon (D) submitted an amicus brief to the U.S....

Washington state's House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday prohibiting some employers from cannabis testing new applicants. State Sen. Karen Keiser (D) sponsored this legislation, SB 5123, and introduced it in the Senate in January where...

New Bill Could End Legal Marijuana Alternative In Kentucky GOP lawmaker Rebecca Raymer has filed a bill proposing a ban on sales of products containing delta-8 THC alongside other hemp-derived intoxicating substances in Kentucky. Raymer is "hopeful" the bill will address the "...

Washington State lawmakers recently passed a measure that replaces the word “marijuana” with “cannabis” in all state laws, referring to the racist origins of the Spanish word for weed as utilized by Harry Anslinger, who in the 1930s implemented extreme drug laws...

A new budget bill with a proposal to earmark $200,000 for researching the possibility of legalizing psilocybin services in Washington State was filed by the State legislature on Thursday. The bill also proposes relying on current cannabis regulatory systems to track psychedelic...

Washington state Governor Jay Inslee (D) has signed into law a bill that requires freight trains to have at least two crew members. The bill, H.B. 1841, becomes effective June 11. Before signing the bill last week, Inslee vetoed a section of the bill saying that the bill would become effective...

Who "won" and who "lost" this week's Democratic debate in Detroit? That's hard to say before any new large-scale polling comes out. Checking with the pundits can give a sense of what the pros thought, but there's little widespread agreement.  Even the...

The presence of former Vice President Joe Biden onstage Wednesday on the second night of debate among Democratic presidential candidates put the Obama administration’s policies in the spotlight in clashes over health care, immigration and criminal justice.  Biden, who has a comfortable...

Many of the 20 Democrats participating over two days in the CNN Democratic Presidential Debates in Detroit favor cannabis legalization. Where the candidates differ the most is in past policies that may contradict their positions today — and in how legalization would look under...