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Washington lawmakers have failed yet again this year at passing cannabis home grow legislation.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey has filed a motion to expunge some 66,000 cannabis-related convictions, including 62,000 felony convictions and 4,000 misdemeanors.

Aurora Cannabis has reported a net loss of about $980 million in the second fiscal quarter of 2020. Shares in the company were on the rise this week, regardless.

2020 could be a momentous year for legalization in New England, with sweeping cannabis reforms currently being considered in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

The mayor of Amsterdam is considering banning tourists from buying cannabis in a reported effort to clean up the city’s overcrowded red-light district.

UK officials at the Food Standards Agency say CBD products will be pulled off store shelves next year if they have not received any form of regulatory approval by then.

A National Association of Realtors report indicates increased demand for warehouses in legalized states; house pricing, meanwhile, seems generally unaffected by nearby cannabis dispensaries and operators.

Massachusetts cannabis regulators have been given access to sealed documents related to cannabis companies linked to Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia’s bribery case from last year.

Iowa lawmakers advanced a bill from the House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Safety that would expand the state’s medical cannabis program to include THC-rich products.

President Trump’s budget proposal for the fiscal year 2021 would remove a rider containing protections for state-legal medical cannabis programs; congressional lawmakers, however, are expected to override the move.

A new Leafly jobs report shows that the cannabis industry has doubled in size over the last four years.

An entrepreneurial Girl Scout troop sold 230 boxes of cookies over four hours outside of Chicago’s Dispensary33; the dispensary, which supported the cookie sales, has asked the troop to return for the rest of the month.

Western Illinois University has announced it will offer a minor in cannabis production including 18-19 credit hours and additional coursework from the department of biological sciences.

A recent marketing stunt from the California Milk Advisory Board aims to ride the coattails of cannabis business in a tone-deaf attempt to bolster their struggling industry.

The USDA created a pilot hemp insurance program that covers against loss of yield for hemp grown for fiber, grain, or CBD; the agency also gave hemp farmers access to the federal Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program.

Weedmaps is no longer allowing unlicensed Michigan cannabis businesses to list or advertise on its platform.

Legislation to legalize medical cannabis is expected to be introduced today in the Alabama state Senate; the bill is based on a proposal approved by the Alabama Medical Cannabis Study Commission.

Oregon regulators have approved a rule to increase the amount of THC allowed in hemp-based concentrates, extracts, or tinctures. The move is expected to help reduce the amount of hemp and hemp products wasted due to high THC content.

The Colorado Commission on Higher Education has approved the state’s first cannabis degree program, a bachelor of science in cannabis biology and chemistry at Colorado State University-Pueblo.

Nepal lawmakers will consider adult-use cannabis legalization after lawmakers from the ruling Communist Party proposed the reforms; the legislation is reportedly backed by at least 46 lawmakers.

Former vice president and current Democratic presidential candidate said in a recording that cannabis is “at the point where it has to be, basically, legalized.”

Aurora Cannabis co-founder and CEO Terry Booth announced his retirement yesterday; meanwhile, the company announced it was implementing a new “business transformation plan” amid rumors of impending layoffs.

GenCanna Global USA Inc., an embattled Kentucky hemp processor, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but the company will continue operations during this process.

According to a recent poll, 9 out of 10 people living in Kentucky support the legalization of medical cannabis.