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Two separate campaigns in Arkansas have started collecting signatures to put competing legalization questions on the November ballot.

Activists in Missouri have started collecting signatures to put an adult-use legalization initiative on the November ballot; the effort is backed by the same group from the state’s successful 2018 medical cannabis push.

The owners of a cannabis farm in Anacortes, Washington have been accused of defrauding investors of nearly five million dollars in an illegal Ponzi scheme.

The Bureau of Cannabis Control in California has approved emergency regulations requiring cannabis operators to post public QR codes that verify their business license.

Whoopi & Maya, the women-focused medical cannabis company founded by Whoopi Goldberg and Om Edibles founder Maya Elisabeth, has shut down due to overly restrictive regulations and personal issues between the founders.

The top Democrat in Minnesota’s House of Representatives has announced plans to introduce legislation legalizing adult-use cannabis later this year.

A controversial bill that would have banned high-potency concentrates in Washington state was resoundingly rejected for the 2020 session.

A court ruling in New Mexico signals that state-licensed medical cannabis companies can claim a tax deduction reserved for prescription medication.

Police in Edmonton, Alberta have reported a slight uptick in cannabis-impaired driving arrests over the last year.

Massachusetts’ Curaleaf Holdings Inc. has completed its acquisition of Oregon’s Cura Partners for a bit less than $400 million; the deal includes 53 dispensaries, wholesale business, and the Select brand.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders pledged this weekend that he would legalize cannabis in all 50 states on his first day if he wins the presidential election.

Oregon regulators have levied a $110,000 fine on Cura Cannabis, the state’s largest cannabis company, for allegedly mislabeling vape products; some residents have also filed a lawsuit against the company.

The New York State Bar has formally offered approval of legalizing adult-use cannabis in the state; the governor has already included legalization revenues in his 2021 executive budget.

The first year of cannabis tax revenues from Canada’s legalized market is lower than (barely half of) what the government had expected.

The City Council of Berkeley, California has approved on-site cannabis consumption at dispensaries; the changes also allow for up to seven cannabis delivery services in the city.

Adam Bierman — CEO and co-founder of MedMen Enterprises — is stepping down from his official duties starting tomorrow and has agreed to surrender his super-voting shares back to the company.

According to a new report, Oregon has the most cannabis dispensaries per capita than any other legalized state.

Major cannabis reforms in the Australian Capital Territory have taken effect, despite opposition from the federal government and a United Nations warning that the reforms violate international drug treaties.

An Idaho judge has ruled that Colorado company Big Sky Scientific must forfeit its 6,701-pound hemp shipment that was seized by Idaho State Police last year.

Republican lawmakers in Indiana have advanced a bill from committee that would allow the state to force cannabis prosecutions in counties and jurisdictions that have opted into defacto decriminalization policies.

An Ohio man who was arrested with 91 pounds of suspected THC-rich cannabis has been acquitted of drug charges because of the state’s hemp legalization law.

New York’s University of Buffalo School of Law is offering its first cannabis industry bridge course covering compliance and other issues important to the cannabis space.

Cannabis media company Leafly laid off 54 employees, about 18 percent of its workforce, in an effort to align its business operations “with the market realities of the technology and cannabis sectors.”

New Mexico’s Senate Public Affairs Committee has passed an adult-use cannabis legalization bill in a slim and partisan 4-3 vote.