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Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is being sued for shutting down the state’s adult-use cannabis dispensaries amid the coronavirus pandemic.

After two of the state’s five dispensaries recently shuttered without warning, Iowa regulators now say it will take a year or more to license new businesses in their place.

A new financial analysis suggests that the Oceanic cannabis market including New Zealand, Australia, Guam, and surrounding islands could be worth $1.55 billion by 2024.

Family members have announced the passing of Charlotte Figi, the young epilepsy patient who inspired the CBD-rich Charlotte’s Web cannabis strain and sparked an acceptance movement for medical cannabis.

Businesses that operate adjacent to the legal cannabis industry will be ineligible for the federal coronavirus loan assistance plan signed by President Trump last month.

March cannabis sales in Oregon set a new monthly record for the state at $84.5 million; business owners, however, still voice concerns about an uncertain future.

Canadian cannabis company Organigram Holdings Inc. announced the temporary layoff of about 45 percent of its workforce, approximately 400 employees.

The DEA has removed Epidiolex, the CBD-based epilepsy medication made by GW Pharmaceuticals, from the federal controlled substances list.

Cannabis businesses in North America are beginning to experience financial fallout from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

High Times has suspended the publication of DOPE and Culture magazines during the coronavirus outbreak; all employees have been temporarily furloughed.

Local and state lawmakers have called on Santa Clara County public health officials to re-allow in-person adult-use cannabis sales after shops were shut down last week in favor of delivery services.

Delaware officials are working on emergency rules to allow delivery services from the state’s medical cannabis dispensaries.

In celebration of the 4/20 holiday this month, we are using the whole month of April to focus on courageous cannabis and drug policy pioneers. Today, on what would have been his 89th birthday, we celebrate Baba Ram Dass, who helped legitimize the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s and awaken the public to the immorality of prohibition.

The first federal prisoner in the U.S. to die from the novel coronavirus was locked up on nonviolent drug charges.

Legal cannabis businesses spent nearly $11 million in federal lobbying efforts during 2019 — the spending is nearly three times what the industry spent in 2018.

Canadian cannabis companies will be given fair access to the $40 billion approved for federal coronavirus response loans.

Prospective cannabis patients in Massachusetts can now use telehealth services to acquire a recommendation for the state medical cannabis program from their doctor.

Eleven U.S. senators — all Democrats — have filed a letter asking the federal Small Business Administration to open up loans and other financial assistance to state-legal cannabis companies amid the coronavirus crisis.

The USDA approved state hemp program plans for Georgia and South Carolina this week.

Cannabis advocacy group Last Prisoner Project has launched a round-up change donation program for cannabis retailers that will aid the organization’s efforts to free all prisoners locked up on cannabis charges.

There are many conflicting reports about the safety of cannabis use for pregnant women. Here’s what we know:

Two of Iowa’s five licensed medical cannabis dispensaries were abruptly shut down without explanation from their operator nor state health officials, who said they will work to license two new retailers.

New York City-based Mind Medicine announced it had partnered with the world-leading psychedelics pharmacology and clinical research laboratory at University Hospital Basel in Switzerland.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo admitted to reporters this week that cannabis legalization was “not likely” to make it into the final budget this year.