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The USDA has expanded its pilot hemp crop insurance offerings into new states and announced improvements to the insurance program.

New Mexico’s medical cannabis market is thriving this year despite retail restrictions imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

CannTrust, the embattled Canadian cannabis producer whose license was suspended amid multiple compliance violations last year, is launching two new brands after an 18-month remediation process.

The United Nations Commission for Narcotic Drugs has voted to reclassify the status of cannabis under the Union’s 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which will give member states more room to reconsider their own cannabis laws.

A first-of-its-kind study published this month found that CBD has no negative impacts on driving while THC intoxication lasts for about four hours.

San Francisco city officials have voted to ban smoking in apartment buildings. The ban, however, does not extend to cannabis smoking because it would effectively remove the only legal consumption option for apartment-dwelling cannabis patients.

The New Leaf Illinois initiative has launched. The effort aims to help people who were arrested for cannabis crimes get their records expunged.

The Thai government has ruled that most parts of the cannabis/hemp plant — including the leaves, branches, trunks, bark, fiber, and roots (not flower) — are now allowed in manufactured cosmetics and food.

Under new adult-use cannabis regulations in Massachusetts, social equity applicants will be given the first crack at delivery licenses for three years.

Cannabis regulators in Guam are at odds with the U.S. territory’s tourism officials over cannabis advertising and product sales in Tumon, a vacation hotspot.

New Jersey’s attorney general has directed state prosecutors to stop trying low-level cannabis crimes following the state’s landslide vote in favor of legalization.

A New York plant nursery is suing the Washington County Sheriff after deputies destroyed more than 250 of the group’s licensed hemp research plants.

Following the governor’s announcement in support of legalizing cannabis, activists and local politicians in Virginia are already pushing for social equity considerations in the state’s legalization plan.

Two police officers in South Dakota have filed a lawsuit claiming the state’s voter-approved cannabis legalization initiative violates the state constitution.

Lawmakers in the House of Representatives will vote next week on the MORE Act, which aims to federally deschedule cannabis and expunge prior cannabis convictions.

Weedmaps has been named the official sponsor for the November 28 boxing bout between Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr.

A Pennsylvania Appeals Court ruling has guaranteed a medical cannabis patient’s access to unemployment benefits after he was fired for failing a drug test.

Subversive Capital Acquisition Group has announced the purchasing of Caliva and Left Coast Ventures and the forming of TPCO Holding Corp., aka The Parent Company.

A judge has ruled that California cannabis regulators overstepped their authority by allowing cannabis companies to advertise on billboards along state freeways.

Adult-use cannabis shops in Maine sold $1.4 million worth of cannabis during their first month despite supply shortages and in-store purchase limits.

Police in Fort Worth, Texas have opted out of enforcing low-level cannabis possession laws due to the legal status of hemp, which is indistinguishable from cannabis without lab testing.

A recent CDC report highlights how teen admission rates for cannabis use disorder treatment have not risen in the US despite the spread of adult-use legalization.

The Israeli startup CanBreed says it used CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology to alter the genetics of cannabis to make a plant that is resistant to powdery mildew.

A recent study led by Canopy Growth found that CBD extended the mean lifespan of worms by 18 percent and increased late-stage life activity by 206 percent.