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Minnesota lawmakers’ proposal to legalize adult-use cannabis includes social equity considerations, home grow provisions, and an additional 8% tax on cannabis products.

Connecticut has launched its regulated adult-use cannabis market with nine retail dispensaries opening across the state on Tuesday.

Illinois cannabis dispensaries sold more than $1.55 billion worth of adult-use cannabis in 2022, a new record for the state.

The Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled that using medical cannabis under the care of a physician while pregnant is not considered child neglect.

Adult-use cannabis sales by Maine dispensaries nearly doubled last year from 2021 — the state’s first full year of sales — to just under $159 million.

Missouri regulators have released the sample application for adults who want to grow their own cannabis under the state’s voter-approved legalization measure.

Multiple Oregon cannabis farmers claim they are owned tens of thousands of dollars by Chalice Brands for cannabis flower, pre-rolls, edibles, and other products retailed by the brand from its multiple dispensaries.

New Mexico cannabis dispensaries broke yet another monthly sales record in December after recording $28 million in adult-use and $15.1 million in medical sales.

The Scottish National Investment Bank is investing £2 million (about $2.4 million) into Scotland-based IndiNature Mill, a firm which specializes in hemp-based insulation products.

The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA Pain Medicine) released guidelines calling for all patients to be screened for cannabis use before surgery, citing concerns that regular cannabis consumers can experience more post-op pain and nausea.

A federal survey found 52.5 million Americans aged 12 and older, about 20%, reported having used cannabis over the past year.

Multiple physicians’ organizations in Vermont are urging lawmakers to maintain THC potency caps in state-legal cannabis products — currently, flower products are capped at 30% THC potency and there is a 60% max potency for concentrates.

During the first week of the 2023 legislative session, Minnesota Democrats — who recently gained majority control over both the House and Senate — introduced a plan to legalize adult-use cannabis.

The USDA is awarding nearly $5 million in grant money to a partnership of hemp organizations, universities, and government agencies in Tennessee to advance hemp-focused projects.

Florida activists have collected just under 150,000 valid signatures so far in their bid to put an adult-use cannabis legalization question before voters next year.

Massachusetts cannabis firm Trulieve will pay a $14,502 fine to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) over the death of cannabis worker Lorna McMurrey, who died after inhaling too much “ground cannabis dust” at the company’s Holyoke facility in early 2022.

An annual report found that police in California searched teenagers they perceived to be Black at nearly six times the rate of teens they perceived to be white during 2021 vehicle and pedestrian stops.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) vetoed three proposals related to cannabis at the end of 2022, claiming the bills were “rushed through a lame duck session.”

Kentucky Democrats filed cannabis reform bills on the first day of the state’s legislative session as part of a three-tiered approach to cannabis legalization set to include legislation, executive action, and a proposed constitutional amendment.

Oregon’s voter-approved psilocybin therapy reforms took effect on January 1. As the first such reforms in the US, they establish psilocybin therapy centers where anyone 21+ can consume psychedelic mushrooms in a supervised setting.

Maryland’s voter-approved cannabis legalization law has taken partial effect and adults aged 21+ will no longer face charges for possessing up to an ounce of cannabis.

The alleged “straw” owner of the Oklahoma cannabis farm where a quadruple homicide occurred last November has been arrested.

South Carolina state lawmakers pre-filed two separate medical cannabis legalization proposals. Both of the measures would give patients access to full-plant medicine.

Kentucky’s limited medical cannabis reforms took effect on January 1, allowing patients with a doctor’s recommendation to possess up to eight ounces of medical cannabis if purchased legally in another state.