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The House Rules Committee has once again declined Rep. Robert Garcia's (D-CA) efforts to eliminate marijuana testing for federal job applicants through substantial spending bills. See Also: Governor Newsom To Review Expanded Marijuana Rights Bills For Patients And Employees These...

Local Pediatrician Raises Concerns Over Cannabis Edible Incidents In San Diego A doctor at Rady Children's Hospital says that she usually sees 100 children per year who have ingested cannabis edibles, reported NBC 7 San Diego. "These are products purchased legally, and...

Regulators in Colorado have identified numerous cases in which licensed marijuana businesses are cheating on their lab testing, according to a memo from the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division (MED), reported Denver Westword. The memo stressed potential public safety...

A year after the ban on employers testing for marijuana use during the hiring process was enacted, the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations, which oversees its implementation, said it had not received any complaints over unlawful pre-hire marijuana testing in 2022, reported MSN. “This...

Arizona-based technology company, PathogenDx, has launched a simple and easy-to-use automated sample preparation system for bacterial and fungal pathogen testing in the cannabis and hemp sectors – Octa AutoPrep Station. PathogenDx The system is compatible with the company’s AOAC-...

The biggest federal workers union in the nation recently accepted a resolution backing cannabis legalization and urging for the removal of policies penalizing federal workers over their off-the-clock marijuana use in states where the plant is legal. The measure is called “Resolution to...

The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) is considering a change to its cannabis testing policy. Following the recent news that the New York Police (NYPD) would stop drug testing officers for marijuana, which the department reversed several hours later, an FDNY union rep is...

A new bill seeking to promote climate resilience jobs and establish a White House Office of Climate Resilience to encourage climate protection work has been filed by a group of more than two dozen congressional Democrats, reported Marijuana Moment.  An important...

In an attempt to deal with cannabis testing issues and laboratory inconsistencies, California is standardizing the process throughout the state's approximately 40 active weed testing facilities. What Happened The initiative comes under the new state law...

New York residents need not fear losing their jobs due to recreational marijuana use anymore. The New York Department of Labor confirmed that employers are now prohibited from testing their employees for the presence of cannabis, reported Marijuana Moment.  While employers...

Hound Labs, Inc., a health tech company, confirmed Friday that it has secured a $20 million investment to support the production of the Hound Marijuana Breathalyzer.  Its first commercial product, the Hound Marijuana Breathalyzer is the result of the company's...

One of the marijuana-based companies meeting with the public at this week's Weedstock Cannabis Investor Conference in Denver is CannLabs (OTC: SDSPD). The cannabis testing service, state-licensed in Colorado, recently went public via a reserve merger and has ambitious expansion plans. (Its...