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According to an online poll, 45% of U.S adults have reduced or replaced their alcohol consumption with cannabis since the pandemic started.

Mexican lawmakers are requesting an extension to their December 15 deadline to pass a cannabis legalization law. The bill as it stands would allow for possession up to 28 grams, home cultivation, a legal market, and the expungement of some prior cannabis crimes.

Medical cannabis constituted Maine’s most lucrative crop in 2020, outpacing potatoes, milk, and other food crops.

Denver cannabis regulators announced new proposals that would allow for cannabis delivery and additional social use venues, as well as new provisions that would prioritize those licenses for entrepreneurs who qualify under the state’s social equity requirements.

A recent Wyoming poll found for the first time ever that a majority of voters there support legalizing adult-use cannabis.

Ontario’s auditor general said the unregulated cannabis market is still thriving because the legally available products are of lower quality.

Lawmakers in New Jersey’s Assembly Judiciary Committee have advanced a bill that would lower possession penalties for psilocybin mushrooms from a potential 5-year prison sentence to a maximum $1,000 fine and six months in jail.

South Dakota lawmakers have formally approved regulations for the state’s industrial hemp industry. The new rules take effect in 20 days.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says state lawmakers have reached a deal to legalize and regulate cannabis after voters overwhelmingly approved a voter initiative calling for the reforms last month.

A former civilian employee for the U.S. Marine Corps was sentenced to four years and four months in prison in Japan after he was arrested last year for illegal cannabis sales.

Nebraska State Sen. Anna Wishart says she is crafting adult-use legalization language that will be added to a medical cannabis legalization initiative planned for 2022.

The NBA will not be testing for cannabis use during the upcoming season. The policy was extended from drug testing rules agreed upon last season by the league and players union.

Cannabis researcher Dr. Lyle Craker has filed suit over the DEA’s failure to license additional growers for research-grade cannabis.

Hemp health and wellness company The Gift has been awarded a $10,000 grant through a partnership between Beyoncé’s charity initiative BeyGOOD and the NAACP.

The House Rules Committee voted yesterday to advance the MORE Act — which would end the federal prohibition of cannabis — positioning the landmark bill for a full floor vote later this week. If passed, the legislation is all but guaranteed to fail in the GOP-controlled Senate.

The USDA has expanded its pilot hemp crop insurance offerings into new states and announced improvements to the insurance program.

CannTrust, the embattled Canadian cannabis producer whose license was suspended amid multiple compliance violations last year, is launching two new brands after an 18-month remediation process.

Will Read is the founder and president of CannaPlanners, a Vermont-based web design and marketing company that specializes in the needs of the cannabis industry.

The United Nations Commission for Narcotic Drugs has voted to reclassify the status of cannabis under the Union’s 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which will give member states more room to reconsider their own cannabis laws.

A first-of-its-kind study published this month found that CBD has no negative impacts on driving while THC intoxication lasts for about four hours.

San Francisco city officials have voted to ban smoking in apartment buildings. The ban, however, does not extend to cannabis smoking because it would effectively remove the only legal consumption option for apartment-dwelling cannabis patients.

The Thai government has ruled that most parts of the cannabis/hemp plant — including the leaves, branches, trunks, bark, fiber, and roots (not flower) — are now allowed in manufactured cosmetics and food.

Under new adult-use cannabis regulations in Massachusetts, social equity applicants will be given the first crack at delivery licenses for three years.

Cannabis regulators in Guam are at odds with the U.S. territory’s tourism officials over cannabis advertising and product sales in Tumon, a vacation hotspot.