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Officials in Zimbabwe announced a plan to legalize hemp and export hemp-based products to the global market.

The Princeton Review this year listed the nation’s 20 colleges with the biggest on-campus cannabis presence; the University of Vermont tops the list.

Utah’s Supreme Court has sided with lawmakers and the governor in a dispute over whether officials could replace a voter-approved medical cannabis initiative with a more limited law.

Colorado’s medical cannabis business licenses are slowly decreasing as the adult-use industry steadily ramps up, according to an annual report by the state’s Marijuana Enforcement Division.

Yet another study has come out — this time, based in Colorado — suggesting that adult-use legalization policies do not lead to an uptick in teenage cannabis use.

The University of Missouri has planted the state’s first hemp crop in 70 years; the school will be studying the crop to help farmers prepare for the 2020 growing season.

A new proposal in the U.S. Senate would lift federal restrictions on cannabis research and direct multiple federal agencies to develop a cannabis research agenda.

An industrial hemp seed bank is under construction at Cornell University in Geneva, New York.

Officials in Portland, Maine, have released a proposal for city-wide cannabis industry regulations. According to the working group responsible for the rules, the city aims to generally treat adult-use and medical cannabis similarly.

The Ohio Agriculture Department has planted a pilot hemp crop so officials can practice hemp cultivation and lab testing procedures in preparation for the state’s hemp market launch expected next year.

Tuesday of next week marks the official launch of medical cannabis sales in Louisiana. The state program does not permit raw cannabis flower, however, patients will instead have access to tinctures, inhalers, topicals, and oils.

Federal officials say that Utah’s medical cannabis plan — which some had worried would jeopardize the state’s federal funding — can move forward.

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has pulled $375,000 in funding for the state’s pilot industrial hemp program because “currently there is no existing industry to support a state funded program.”

Massachusetts has awarded the first provisional license under the state’s social equity licensing rules to Pure Oasis, a Boston-based dispensary; the owners say they will hire locally and hope to establish a business incubator.

Known British cannabis advocate Blair Gibbs is leaving a position as policy lead for the Centre of Medicinal Cannabis to join the administration of the newly appointed Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whom he has worked for previously.

Ohio is the latest state to legalize hemp cultivation and CBD product manufacturing; the bill had been overwhelmingly approved by the state’s legislative bodies and was signed into law by Gov. Mike DeWine on Tuesday.

Utah lawmakers are planning to change the state’s medical cannabis program, which was created in the first place as a legislative replacement for the voter-approved program that lawmakers said would be untenable, as the current program conflicts too directly with federal rules.

Woodstock Ventures, the founding entity behind the Woodstock music festival, can move forward with a planned cannabis brand after a court ruled their trademark was not blocked by Woodstock Roots LLC, an unaffiliated company.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill into law that establishes an expungement process for low-level criminal charges and expands the state’s existing decriminalization rules.

Massachusetts regulators have warned residents and tourists against bringing cannabis out to sea, and into other federal waterways, despite the plant being legalized in the state.

A Pennsylvania medical cannabis cultivator has had its license revoked following multiple accusations of wrongdoing by state regulators.

As Canada approaches the one-year anniversary of legalizing cannabis, adult-use sales are steadily rising but medical cannabis flower sales have dropped 20 percent.

Standard Wellness has issued Ohio’s first medical cannabis product recall on its THC-infused water-soluble drops after patients alerted the company that some bottles contained dark-colored debris; so far, no adverse effects or illness related to the polluted drops have been reported.

Law enforcement in British Columbia has asked federal authorities to help thwart illegal online cannabis sales in the province.