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Worth $447 million and weighing close to 67,000 pounds, Arkansas’ total medical cannabis sales have generated $45 million in tax revenue since dispensaries opened in 2019.

Austin-Travis County (Texas) Emergency Services updated their policy to accept candidates with prior cannabis use to reflect the changing landscape of legalization across the country.

Curaleaf is partnering with Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits, the world’s largest alcohol distributor, to distribute its Hemp and Select CBD products.

Weedmaps and rapper/cannabis entrepreneur Berner are launching a social media platform in response to the deletion of multiple cannabis-friendly accounts from various networks.

David Wayne Jenkins, owner of now-defunct Castle Management, is facing 33 counts of grand theft of labor for failing to pay employees.

Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Melissa Shusterman is planning to introduce a bill that would open up 75 medical cannabis cultivation licenses for small businesses and farmers in the state.

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) filed a bill with other GOP lawmakers to federally legalize adult-use cannabis this week but some Republicans are less-than-excited by the proposal.

Dr. Robert Califf, President Joe Biden’s pick to head the Food and Drug Administration, has prescribed cannabinoid therapy as a cardiac doctor and actively encourages research into cannabinoid medicine.

Colorado’s new medical cannabis rules, which take effect starting January 1, include stricter cannabis purchase limits for patients and a ban on marketing medical cannabis to people under age 21.

Beto O’Rourke said that Texans “actually agree” on cannabis legalization when he announced his bid for the governor’s office on Monday.

Guam will adopt the Metrc seed-to-sale tracking system for the territory’s pending medical cannabis program rollout.

John “JT” Burnette, the husband of Trulieve CEO Kim Rivers, was sentenced to three years in federal prison and fined $1.25 million on public corruption charges.

Washington regulators forced three licensed cannabis producers to destroy about 13,000 pounds of plants after they were accused of growing more than their licenses allow.

A recent study found that Canadian cannabis legalization was not associated with significant post-legalization changes in traffic-injury emergency department visits.

The Oakland, California City Council Public Safety Committee unanimously approved a proposal to end cannabis drug testing for most city employees.

In a letter to President Joe Biden this week, several Democrats in the Senate requested the president use his executive authority to pardon all individuals with non-violent federal cannabis convictions.

Detroit voters decided to decriminalize psilocybin and the therapeutic use of other entheogenic plants during last week’s election.

Oregon regulators have started to process cannabis industry licenses again after a three-year pause.

Trulieve Cannabis Corp. is opening West Virginia’s first medical cannabis dispensary today, more than four years after lawmakers approved the program.

springbig, a cannabis industry loyalty and marketing company, is planning to go public on the Nasdaq after their merger with Tuatara Capital Acquisition Corp. closes early next year.

An Ohio bill is seeking to expand the state’s medical cannabis qualifying conditions list, allow curbside and drive-thru dispensing, increase the number of dispensaries, and expand the square footage of cultivation sites.

Lawmakers and other officials in Montana are contesting some of the state’s proposed adult-use cannabis regulations, including a provision to ban the sale of hemp-derived CBD products by cannabis retailers.

Connecticut has selected BioTrack for the state’s medical and adult-use cannabis seed-to-sale tracking software.

Today marks the launch of Cannabis in Common, a new cannabis legalization advocacy initiative backed by the Cannabis Voter Project, the U.S. Cannabis Council, and with support from celebrity cannabis advocates Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman.