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The New Orleans City Council approved language to retroactively and proactively pardon all low-level cannabis cases in the city, effectively nixing some 10,000 cannabis convictions and decriminalizing cannabis moving forward.

The Ohio attorney general rejected summary language for a cannabis legalization proposal submitted by the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol.

After a year’s delay, Illinois has awarded 55 conditional adult-use cannabis dispensary licenses for social equity applicants.

Connecticut’s Social Equity Council has approved a list of 215 areas disproportionately impacted by prohibition that will be prioritized for cannabis retail licenses and the state’s social equity program.

A key Senate committee approved language that would let VA doctors make medical cannabis recommendations for veterans in states with medical cannabis programs.

Medical cannabis delivery is now a legal option for Missouri patients.

Kentucky-based Victory Hemp Foods, a B2B food ingredient processing company, has raised about $4.5 million to expand its production capacity.

Pennsylvania-based research firm Affinity Bio Partners is investigating the potential efficacy of cannabis for diabetic nerve pain.

A federal judge on Monday permanently blocked Capna Intellectual from using a product logo after a legal challenge by Kool cigarette brand owner ITG Brands.

Montana has proposed draft rules for cannabis industry advertising, including a ban on social media ads in addition to not being allowed to advertise on TV, radio, or in newspapers.

Pueblo County, Colorado is awarding more than $2 million in cannabis excise sales tax scholarships to local institutions, including $1 million to Pueblo Community College.

The United Kingdom National Health Service and Brain Tumour Charity are partnering on research to determine whether cannabis-based medicine Sativex paired with chemotherapy medication temozolomide can treat glioblastoma.

Lawmakers in Ohio have introduced a bill to legalize cannabis for adult use in the state, with plans to use the revenue to fund education, infrastructure, and cannabis research.

Connecticut’s Naugatuck Valley Community College will offer an online pilot cannabis cultivation course this fall to current Horticulture majors.

A new lawsuit claims that the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority violated the state’s Open Meetings Act while enacting emergency cannabis industry regulations.

Maryland voters will likely get a chance to pass cannabis legalization via a voter referendum in 2022, according to Maryland House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones (D).

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke signed an agreement with Health Canada for establishing its own cannabis industry laws and regulations within the MCK territory.

HIV-positive patients who consume cannabis daily have lower levels of neuroinflammation than non-cannabis consuming HIV-positive patients, according to a study.

Actor Seth Rogen’s cannabis brand Houseplant and cannabis giant Canopy Growth this week announced an end to their Canada-based partnership.

Cannabis use by teens is not independently associated with an increased risk of “amotivational syndrome,” researchers concluded in a recent study.

The lawsuit filed by a Michigan cannabis company that could have stopped Illinois’ cannabis licensing lottery has been voluntarily dropped.

A Massachusetts lawsuit is seeking to stop the state Department of Corrections from using certain drug tests that the suit describes as faulty and with an 80% rate of false-positive tests.

Julio Jones and former Atlanta Falcons teammate Roddy White are being sued in connection with money laundering and fraud for the alleged harvesting and selling of over $3 million a month of cannabis on the unregulated market.

Helios Raphael Dayspring, the former owner of a California cannabis retailer, has been charged in federal court with bribery and failing to report millions of dollars in income to the Internal Revenue Service.