Graham Abbott

Kentucky voters across the state overwhelmingly passed ballot measures allowing medical cannabis operations at the local level.

Voters in the Texas cities of Dallas, Bastrop, and Lockhart voted this week to decriminalize low-level cannabis possession.

Oregon voted to secure cannabis workers’ right to join unions with the state’s Measure 119 drawing 55% voter support on Tuesday.

South Dakota voters on Tuesday rejected the state’s adult-use cannabis legalization initiative.

Florida’s Amendment 3, which sought to legalize adult-use cannabis by writing the reforms into the State Constitution, on Tuesday failed to garner the 60% supermajority support required of such amendments.

Adult-use cannabis dispensaries can legally provide home delivery services under new state regulations that took effect on Friday.

Nebraska officials will count votes for and against the state’s medical cannabis legalization bid this week and will publish the results despite an ongoing legal challenge disputing the campaign’s petition signature-gathering process.

A chief administrative law judge ruled Thursday to delay the DEA’s hearing for expert testimony on the rescheduling of cannabis under federal law until likely January or February 2025.

The owner of a Texas smoke shop was awarded a settlement of $80,000 from the Garza County Sheriff’s Office and the city of Post following an “illegal” raid in February that seized more than $20,000 worth of legal hemp products.

A Queens County Superior Court judge has ruled that the New York City law enabling local law enforcement to crack down on unlicensed cannabis sales is unconstitutional because it violates the shop owners’ right to due process.

Multi-state cannabis operator Green Dragon, which operates cultivation and dispensary sites in Colorado and Florida, is shutting down. The company is a subsidiary of Eaze Technologies, Inc., a California cannabis tech firm that is also closing by the year’s end.

Kentucky is conducting the state’s first lottery for medical cannabis business licenses today. The first round of lottery-based licensing will cover medical cannabis cultivators and processors.

Voter support for South Dakota’s ballot initiative to legalize adult-use cannabis is trailing in the latest polls, with just 45% of voters saying they plan to vote yes for legalization.

A recent poll found that 66% of Florida voters are planning to vote yes on Amendment 3, which would make Florida the latest — and one of the largest — adult-use cannabis markets to launch in the U.S.

A New York judge this week ordered the owner of an unlicensed cannabis retailer in upstate New York to pay $9.5 million for selling cannabis without a license.

A recent poll conducted by Noble Predictive Insights found that about half of Utah voters support legalizing adult-use cannabis.

A Montgomery Circuit judge in Alabama has appointed a mediator to help resolve the legal dispute over the state’s attempts to license integrated operators for its long-embattled medical cannabis program.

The Army has updated its policies to officially ban the use of delta-8 THC and other intoxicating hemp products by soldiers.

After two years of legal adult-use sales, New York cannabis tax grants are finally available to fund reinvestment in the state’s communities most heavily affected by prior drug policies.

California cannabis regulators revoked the license of cannabis vape manufacturer K.U.S.H. Collective, ordering product recalls for vape cartridges and integrated vaporizer products from 12 brands associated with the company.

Officials with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture recently released new rules regarding the sale of hemp-derived THC products. Under the new rules, which will take effect this December, some cannabinoid products currently available in the state could no longer be legal.

A new study found that cannabis use is “significantly associated with higher prevalence of physical activity” and that physical exercise in general was more common in states and territories with legal cannabis access.

In a recent campaign agenda update discussing plans “to deliver for Black men and their families,” Vice President Kamala Harris (D) pledged to federally legalize cannabis if she is elected to be the next U.S. president.

A federal judge overturned part of New Jersey’s law restricting the sale of intoxicating hemp products because it violated the federal dormant commerce clause, which prohibits states from interfering with interstate commerce.