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Anti-cannabis activists in Montana have filed a post-election lawsuit against the state’s successful adult-use cannabis legalization ballot measure, claiming its allocation of new funding violates the state constitution.

A recent study found that psilocybin therapy offered “more than four times greater” relief than traditional antidepressant medications.

A woman is suing a Tennessee State Highway Patrol officer after he charged her with drug-related felonies despite the substance in question being hemp, confirmed by hemp permits from the state Agriculture Department and six certificates of analysis by a private laboratory.

With legalization the big winner in Tuesday night’s election, what other cannabis justice measures prevailed?

Florida’s Marion County School Board has fired high school dean Mike Hickman, who is also a military veteran, over his use of medical cannabis to treat combat wound-related chronic pain.

With the landmark passage of Measures 109 and 110, Oregon voters have opted to decriminalize drugs and legalize medicinal psilocybin.

New Jersey’s Ballot Question No. 1 was approved by voters with an overwhelming 2:1 margin of support.

Arizona became the 13th state to legalize cannabis on Tuesday after voters approved Proposition 207, which legalizes the possession and use of cannabis by adults aged 21 or older.

South Dakota voters have chosen to legalize cannabis for both adult and medical use. It will be the first time a state has jumped straight from prohibition to full legalization.

Montana voters have approved adult-use cannabis legalization via two voter initiatives that set the legal consumption age at 21 and will establish a legal and regulated cannabis marketplace in the state.

Voters in Washington, D.C. have overwhelmingly approved Initiative 81 to decriminalize psychedelic plants.

Ohio regulators are now accepting petitions for adding new qualifying conditions to the state’s medical cannabis program.

Mississippi voters have overwhelmingly approved Amendment 65, an advocate-led ballot initiative to legalize medical cannabis.

Across the U.S. today, voters from Montana to New Jersey will consider a series of ballot initiatives that could represent yet another dramatic shift for the country away from our archaic cannabis and drug policies.

A combination of stricter regulations, the coronavirus pandemic, and industry consolidation has resulted in a dramatic 31% decrease in the number of hemp licenses in New Mexico this year.

The UK’s National Health Service has only issued three prescriptions for medical cannabis oil since it was legalized two years ago, according to medical cannabis advocacy group End Our Pain.

Under a Michigan Court of Appeals ruling, individuals cannot make butane cannabis extractions and the practice — when done without a license — constitutes the manufacturing of a controlled substance.

The New York Health Department has released draft rules for the state’s hemp industry that would ban CBD flower products and require licensing for all segments of the hemp and CBD supply chain.

Lawmakers in the New Jersey Assembly Appropriations Committee have advanced a bill requiring workers’ comp and personal injury protection auto insurance to cover medical cannabis under certain circumstances.

Gwyneth Paltrow of Goop has invested in the microdose-focused cannabis beverage company Cann, which currently operates in California and Nevada.

Canadian researchers found that 43.5 percent of patients who started using medical cannabis to mitigate harmful alcohol consumption were able to reduce the frequency of their alcohol use.

New Zealand voters appear to have rejected a voter referendum to legalize adult-use cannabis by a 53 to 46 percent margin.

The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that the majority of workers at a cannabis cultivation/processing facility are considered “agriculture laborers” under federal law — in some states, such as Massachusetts, this opens up cannabis workers to unionizing under state law.

A recent study by Washington State University researchers found that teenage boys are easily influenced by social media and advertising into believing that cannabis will improve their sex lives.