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A recent Cannabis Compliance Board report in Nevada found that most cannabis industry operators in Nevada are white, male, and older than 34-years-old.

The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors has officially banned hemp production. The ban was sought due to concerns by medical and adult-use cannabis growers that hemp cultivation could ruin cannabis crops via cross-pollination and other issues.

Kentucky state Rep. Rachel Roberts has filed a bill that would legalize cannabis use and cultivation and expunge low-level cannabis crimes.

A recent poll found that 54% of North Carolina residents support legalizing cannabis for adult use and 73% support legalizing cannabis for medicinal purposes.

A recently published German study showed that cannabis could be a promising treatment for reducing pain and muscle cramps in Parkinson’s patients.

Hip-hop legend and Friday film franchise star Ice Cube personally developed and released a new cannabis line in four adult-use markets.

Maine companies with tens of thousands of employees will drop THC from drug testing protocols due to widespread cannabis use and lack of reliable testing procedures.

WallStreetBets, the Reddit-based forum behind the “GameStonk” phenomenon that rocked the stock market last month, set its sights this week on the cannabis space.

Altria Group, the Big Tobacco firm behind Marlboro cigarettes, has registered to lobby on cannabis policy.

Virginia’s House and Senate have each passed broad cannabis legalization bills that must be reconciled and combined into final legislation, which would have to then pass both chambers again.

As Mississippi awaits a Supreme Court decision on its medical cannabis legalization amendment, state Sen. Kevin Blackwell (R) has proposed a separate bill to legalize the medicinal use of cannabis.

Cannabis industry workers in California will be included in the state’s Phase 1a and Phase 1b coronavirus vaccine distribution tiers.

A bipartisan proposal being considered in Washington state would cap the potency of cannabis concentrates at 30% THC and raise the minimum age for purchasing extracts to 25 years old.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is further impeding the will of voters after calling for delaying implementation of the state’s voter-approved medical cannabis law by one year.

The National Labor Relations Board ruled that, under federal restrictions, most cannabis industry workers cannot form unions because they are considered agricultural workers.

The conservative think-tank founded by Steve Bannon has released a report titled ‘Cannabis Cronyism’ that alleges profound political corruption in the cannabis space.

Despite the pandemic, Colorado set a new annual cannabis sales record in 2020 at $2.19 billion.

Ohio medical cannabis sales quadrupled during the pandemic last year but, by the numbers, the state’s total is still far from what was anticipated given the state’s population of over 11 million people.

The Washington State Task Force on Social Equity in Cannabis has called for the state to prioritize race over location for equity applicants and to let funds reserved for equity applicants go to current licensees who would meet the program’s requirements.

Lawmakers in South Dakota are still considering rules and regulations for a legal cannabis market in case the recent court decision blocking the state’s voter-backed legalization bid is successfully appealed.

Kathleen Sebelius, the former Health and Human Services secretary for the Obama Administration, has joined the National Cannabis Roundtable.

A South Dakota judge has ruled in favor of nullifying a cannabis legalization constitutional amendment approved by voters last November. The dispute moves next to the state’s Supreme Court.

New Mexico officials may revoke the license of New Mexicann Natural Medicine after a fire from a botched extraction process seriously injured two workers last October.

Calvin Johnson, a former NFL star wide receiver and founder of Primitiv, a Michigan-based cannabis company, was just elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.