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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in January it will not regulate CBD as a food and dietary supplement ingredient and that it plans to work with Congress to create "safeguards and oversight to manage and minimize risks related to CBD products." While this announcement...

GOP-Led Bill To Legalize MMJ In North Carolina Passes Two More Committees On the heels of getting the first green light this session from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, a bill to legalize medical marijuana in North Carolina was passed in two more chamber's committees, reported...

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 "...

President Biden signed a new executive order Thursday to address racial inequity, especially among underserved communities.  The order, dubbed “Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government” seeks to...

Members of yet another Minnesota House committee have advanced a measure to legalize marijuana. The House Education Finance Committee approved the bill from Rep. Zack Stephenson (D) in a voice vote just days after it advanced through the House Human Services Policy Committee, reported Marijuana...

The top Senate Democrat continues to push for federal marijuana reform. Following a meeting with a group of fellow Democratic senators to discuss the path that would push cannabis legislation toward approval in the new Congress, Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) convened with several GOP...

While lawmakers in Washington state are working on preventing employers from sanctioning their workers who use recreational cannabis outside work hours, some state officials are forbidden from using it at all. Cannabis use remains strictly prohibited for Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board...

Maryland GOP Lawmakers Protect Gun Rights For MMJ Patients Maryland lawmakers reviewed a piece of legislation from Republican Robin Grammer and his four fellow GOP lawmakers at Wednesday's hearing that would protect medical marijuana patients' rights to possess guns, reported Marijuana...

Florida To Double Number Of MMJ Licenses, Gov. DeSantis’ Admin Confirms Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ administration announced Friday that the state health officials will accept applications for 22 medical marijuana licenses in late April, reported Health...

In November, a U.S. district judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by former Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried (D) and her co-plaintiffs against the federal government in which they were seeking to enable medical marijuana patients to buy and own firearms, ending a month-long legal...

2022 was a historic year for cannabis, even though marijuana banking reform was excluded from a large-scale spending bill in December after failing to make it into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). From the enactment of the first piece of standalone federal cannabis reform legislation...

The first cannabis-focused bill filed in the new Congress concerns the controversial issue of medical marijuana patients and their gun rights, or medical marijuana and second amendment conflicts. The bill (HR 363), introduced Friday by Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV), seeks “to...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a GOP-led bill seeking to prevent people from the burden of a criminal record for a simple marijuana paraphernalia arrest into law on Tuesday, reported Signal Cleveland. Senate Bill 288, a large-scale criminal justice legislation from Sen. Nathan Manning (R),...

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) filed a congressional house bill on Friday to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 in an effort to make federal tax deductions and credits possible for legal cannabis businesses. The first woman to graduate from the Corps of Cadets program at The Citadel and a long-time...

A bipartisan group of senators presented a bill to protect consumer access to kratom, a tropical plant native to Southeast Asia, which is currently not illegal and can produce effects similar to opioids, reported Marijuana Moment. Being legal, kratom is easily accessible around the U.S....