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Maryland police can no longer stop and search people based on perceived cannabis odors following a Maryland appeals court ruling.

UK-based GW Pharmaceuticals — the manufacturer of Epidiolex, the first FDA-approved cannabis medication — was awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2021 in the Innovation category.

A proposal in Maine is seeking to legalize psilocybin mushroom therapy for anyone aged 21 or older.

South Dakota’s Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in the governor’s legal challenge to the cannabis legalization ballot initiative that was approved by last November.

Oklahoma has paused the implementation of its seed-to-sale tracking system due to a lawsuit filed by multiple medical cannabis businesses claiming the system would allow for a monopoly.

Philadelphia’s City Council has banned pre-employment drug screenings for cannabis by most businesses in the city.

Syracuse University announced a partnership with the cannabis education platform Green Flower to provide an online industry certificate program.

At least six financial institutions are currently serving Massachusetts-based cannabusinesses — double the number from just three years ago.

Three members of Congress — Reps. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Barbara Lee, and Earl Blumenauer — sent a letter to the executive director of the U.S. Botanic Garden requesting them to display hemp plants.

At least two New York Native American tribes — the Shinnecock Indian Nation and the Saint Regis Mohawks — are eyeing the state’s cannabis industry now that adult-use reforms have been approved.

Canopy Growth has agreed to a distribution deal with alcohol distributor Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits for its line of CBD-infused beverages.

A House proposal introduced last week aims to protect the gun rights of cannabis consumers in states with legal cannabis access.

A 20-year study investigating sets of identical twins with different cannabis habits found no evidence of significant long-term impact on cognitive abilities due to cannabis use.

The Montana Senate approved a bill to implement the state’s voter-approved adult-use cannabis program; the proposal was already passed in the House but amendments by the Senate mean the bill must be reconsidered.

Florida’s conservative Supreme Court blocked the state’s cannabis legalization ballot initiative, claiming the initiative fails to properly inform voters that cannabis is federally illegal and would remain so even if the state legalizes it.

An appeal of Section 280E of the Internal Revenue Code filed by California-based Harborside Health Center was rejected in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday.

The Crow Tribe in Montana approved a cannabis cultivation and sales ordinance last week. Montana voters approved adult-use legalization last year but progress has languished so far under elected state officials.

New York City-based Angel CBD has filed suit against FedEx and New York City over a 2019 hemp shipment that was wrongfully seized by the NYPD.

A federal U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the firing of a Chicago-based former Postal Service employee after they appeared to make an illegal cannabis purchase in 2017.

The National Cannabis Risk Management Association is offering cannabis industry packages through its new Trichome insurance brand.

A recent poll found that approximately one-quarter of U.S. adults said they had used cannabis within the last year.

The mayor of Birmingham, Alabama announced a blanket pardon for more than 15,000 misdemeanor cannabis convictions in the city dating back to 1990.

Iowa cannabis advocate Carl Olsen is suing Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) over the state’s delay in allowing medical cannabis use at long-term care facilities, which was mandated under the state’s medical cannabis legalization bill.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) signed the state’s industrial hemp legalization bill last week. Idaho was the last holdout state for hemp prohibition after the 2018 enactment of federal hemp reforms.