Graham Abbott

Approved licensees can begin constructing their retail facilities but must pass final inspection before opening.

The proposal would allow adults to cultivate up to six cannabis plants in the privacy of their own homes.

Rhode Island’s governor is calling on lawmakers to legalize but has proposed the country’s strictest adult-use regulations, so far.

Republican lawmakers in Tennessee are eyeing 2019 as the year to legalize medical cannabis. Some advocates, however, worry the proposal might not go far enough for patients.

This week marked the introduction of two legalization bills in the Virginia state House of Delegates. Meanwhile, Gov. Northam expressed his continued support for decriminalization.

The misdemeanor cannabis pardons will only be available for people who were 21+ when arrested and it must be the only conviction on their criminal record.

Dozens of New Jersey townships are establishing preemptive bans on the adult-use cannabis industry as state lawmakers are expected to legalize sometime this year.

The proposal would allow interstate cannabis exports to other legalized states, but Oregon’s governor would need to reach an agreement with the receiving state and product would be prohibited from crossing borders with non-legal states.

Five years after the birth of Colorado’s legal cannabis marketplace, the first statewide legalization “experiment” is a proven success and the dire warnings from prohibitionists have still failed to come to fruition.

Texas is in the minority of states that haven’t passed major cannabis reform legislation, but mounting pressure from both within and outside the state could result in significant progress on that front in 2019.

The Republican governor says he won’t consider legalization of any type because it would be going against federal laws, never mind the potential tax revenue from legal cannabis and the ongoing criminal justice crisis that prohibition has wrought.

Following an official inquiry by opposition lawmakers in the Free Democratic Party, federal officials in Germany said they anticipate another six-month delay in the licensing of medical cannabis businesses.