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The Pennsylvania Senate Transportation Committee has advanced a measure to protect medical cannabis patients from being charged with a wrongful DUI. 

The Texas Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of the statewide ban on smokable hemp, citing the state’s long history of prohibiting and regulating the production and possession of hemp.

A federal report found that cannabis samples in Connecticut linked to opioid overdoses had been cross-contaminated with fentanyl by a single dealer, and did not constitute a repeated pattern of adulteration.

Despite having decriminalized the possession of up to 10 grams of cannabis, Maryland’s state Court of Appeals ruled that cannabis odor is sufficient grounds for a brief, “investigatory” traffic stop.

Three cannabis cultivators in Humboldt County are facing fines of over $200,000 by the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board for alleged sediment discharge into tributaries of the Mad River.

Connecticut had received more than 37,000 cannabis business applications for just 56 licenses by the time the application window closed last week.

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina’s House of Representatives during a closed-door meeting decided not to advance the state’s Senate-approved medical cannabis reforms bill.

The SAFE Banking Act was removed from the COMPETES Act, a China competition bill, at the behest of Republican lawmakers who argued the cannabis banking reforms didn’t belong in the legislation.

According to a recent poll, 84% of cannabis consumers and 81% of Americans believe cannabis businesses should meet consistent environmental standards.

Multistate cannabis firm Curaleaf did not offer Juneteenth holiday pay for its unionized employees but did for non-unionized employees.

Canada-based Aurora Cannabis Inc. announced it will be laying off 12% of its workforce in order to realign its organization with the future of the cannabis industry.

NBA Hall of Famer Chris Webber’s Social Equity Impact Ventures, LLC has been selected to oversee New York’s $200 million Social Equity Investment Fund.

New Jersey’s Hudson County Community College is now offering cannabis career-related certifications and training programs, joining other higher education institutions around the state.

The number of registered medical cannabis patients in the U.S. has quadrupled from 2016 to 2020 and the current total is just over 2.97 million patients, according to a recent study.

Advertisements for hemp-based products saw a slight bump during the lead-up to Father’s Day but the total number of ad spots still comprised less than 1% of all agriculture-related advertising ahead of the holiday.

Louisiana Gov. Jon Bel Edwards (D) signed multiple cannabis and hemp reform bills including new provisions for out-of-state medical cannabis patients and industrial hemp testing.

Two Oklahoma attorneys have been charged with falsifying records, cultivation of a dangerous substance, and multiple counts of conspiracy after allegedly putting their legal assistants’ names on more than 400 cannabis cultivation applications.

More than 58% of Thai citizens are supportive of the government’s recent cannabis reforms which involved removing the plant from the country’s narcotics list and legalizing cannabis cultivation and trade.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) has appointed 15 members to the Team Kentucky Medical Cannabis Advisory Committee; the appointees include physicians, attorneys, medical cannabis advocates, and public health workers.

The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled to uphold a life sentence prison term for a man in possession of fewer than two ounces of cannabis.

A California proposal would add new regulations for cannabis product packaging and require consumption risk warning labels.

American teacher and former U.S. diplomat Marc Fogel was sentenced in Russia to a 14-year prison sentence on charges of smuggling about 17 grams of cannabis.

The American Medical Association is calling on states that have legalized or decriminalized cannabis to expunge criminal records due to the overbearing impacts on potential physicians’ lives.  

Cannabis sommelier Derek Gilman was featured on the “Today Show” last week as part of its On the Job series.