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Florida’s proposal to place a THC cap on medical cannabis products appears to be dead for the session after it was denied a hearing in the House Health and Human Services Committee on Monday.

Ohio’s Board of Pharmacy approved raising the state’s number of licensed medical cannabis dispensaries from 60 to 130.

Two new studies show that cannabis use is associated with greater levels of exercise, further debunking the false “lazy stoner” stereotype.

Florida’s Department of Agriculture’s Division of Plant Industry has approved the College of Central Florida to cultivate industrial hemp.

Wisconsin’s top Senate Republican, Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, said he will not support medical or adult-use cannabis reforms without first seeing federal movement on the issue.

Alabama’s bill to legalize medical cannabis has been approved for consideration on the full House floor; a previous version of the bill already passed the state Senate.

The owner of a Quebec headshop is suing the provincial government over its ban on selling cannabis-themed products; the ban was established after federal legalization and blocks the sale of any cannabis-related merchandise including T-shirts and even books.

Peggy Noonan, the entrepreneur behind Arizona’s first scratch-made cannabis kitchen, died at age 73 after a four-year battle with leukemia.

New Jersey’s highest court ruled this week that a construction company must comp the monthly medical cannabis bill of an injured employee, upholding an appellate court ruling from last year.

Oklahoma officials have revoked the license of cannabis testing lab Nationwide Engineering Testing, LLC over alleged public health and safety concerns and other violations.

The city councils in St. Louis and Maplewood, Missouri voted to decriminalize cannabis possession on Tuesday.

Ryan Douglas is a Colombia-based cannabis consultant, a former master grower for Tweed, and author of From Seed to Success: How to Launch a Great Cannabis Cultivation Business in Record Time.

Colorado is holding auctions for several cannabis-themed license plates as a fundraiser to benefit the Colorado Disability Funding Committee; auctioned plates include SATIVA, GANJA, ISIT420, TEGRIDY, and more.

Actor Jaleel White — famous for portraying Steve Urkel in “Family Matters” — is launching a cannabis brand called ItsPurpl in partnership with 710 Labs that will feature variants of the strain Purple Urkle.

Steve Fox, the lead drafter of Colorado’s historic legalization initiative approved by voters in 2012, has died at age 53.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company will “absolutely” consider getting into the cannabis delivery business as soon as cannabis is federally legalized.

Colorado sold $167 million worth of cannabis products in February, which is $20 million less than January, but sales figures so far this year are still outpacing 2020.

Researchers at the University of Sydney’s Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics found via a meta-analysis of 80 separate studies that cannabis impairment lasts on average somewhere between 3 and 10 hours.

A federally-funded study has found that biofluid and traditional sobriety tests are unreliable at measuring cannabis impairment in drivers.

After the success of its online introductory cannabis horticulture class, the University of Connecticut is now offering non-degree online courses covering basic and advanced cannabis cultivation.

The upcoming cannabis-themed streaming channel Cannected is set for an April 20 soft launch through a range of streaming services including Apple TV and Roku.

A federal judge has halted Detroit’s cannabis licensing process due to a lawsuit challenging the local legacy licensing plan, which seeks to prioritize local Detroiters.

A key committee in Texas’ House has advanced a proposal containing expansions to the state’s limited medical cannabis program.

The Alabama House Judiciary Committee advanced the medical cannabis bill approved by the state Senate in February.