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Despite having served fewer warrants, California’s United Cannabis Enforcement Taskforce seized more cannabis and cannabis products — and eradicated more cannabis plants — during the first quarter of 2023 than the previous quarter.

Minnesota is set to become the next U.S. state to legalize adult-use cannabis after the state Senate passed a House-approved legalization proposal on Saturday, sending the bill to the governor who intends to sign it into law.

Cannabis advocates in Nebraska have filed the paperwork for a petition drive seeking to put a medical cannabis legalization question on the state’s 2024 ballot.

A proposal introduced last week in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives seeks to protect the state’s medical cannabis patients from getting DUIs for simply testing positive for cannabis consumption.

The Minnesota House voted 73-57 this week to legalize adult-use cannabis; the proposal is a compromise between two respective legalization bills already passed by the House and Senate.

A recent study by Quest Diagnostics found that post-accident workforce drug tests returned more positive tests for cannabis in 2022 than at any point in the previous 25 years.

The New Hampshire Senate voted to create a commission to study implementing an adult-use cannabis legalization process that would put dispensaries under state control.

A U.S. magistrate judge has tossed the class action lawsuit brought by several Humboldt County landowners who claimed they were wrongfully fined by the county for growing cannabis without a permit.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) announced this week that the state’s cannabis companies must now prove that they’ve paid their state taxes before they can receive a license or have an existing license renewed.

California cannabis companies this week announced the Financial Stability for California Cannabis (FSCC), a new cannabis industry coalition that seeks to raise awareness and offer solutions to ongoing issues of nonpayment by certain operators.

The New Mexico Department of Health has added insomnia to the state’s medical cannabis qualifying conditions list; patients with insomnia will be allowed to enroll starting June 1.

The New Mexico Supreme Court heard arguments this week about whether roadside alcohol impairment testing can be used by law enforcement officers to check for evidence of cannabis impairment.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has submitted the legalization ballot proposal being circulated by advocates to the state Supreme Court, seemingly to signal she would argue the proposal doesn’t meet legal requirements to appear before voters.

A second Michigan lobbyist pleaded guilty to a bribery scheme involving the former head of the state’s medical cannabis licensing board.

Cannabis cultivation workers at 48 Advanced Grow Labs in Connecticut this week became the first cannabis industry workers in Connecticut to unionize.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) last week signed into law the state’s budget bill which includes $5 million to investigate the medicinal efficacy of whole-mushroom psilocybin.

Connecticut dispensaries recorded a decrease in medical cannabis sales for the first time in April since the state’s adult-use market launched in January.

Two Oregon state senators asked the U.S. Attorney for Oregon to formally investigate corruption in the state capitol related to campaign donations from cannabis operators.

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R), who opposes general cannabis legalization, said he would sign a legalization proposal into law if the bill included government control of sales, like how the state handles liquor sales.

The Connecticut House voted this week to reduce penalties for the possession of small quantities of psilocybin mushrooms.

The New Hampshire Senate voted 14-10 on Thursday to reject a House-approved cannabis legalization proposal.

U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has asked the U.S. Botanic Garden to display a female cannabis plant for the first time alongside the male hemp plant already featured in the garden display.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) this week signed the state’s proposal to let licensed cannabis companies deduct ordinary, management-related business expenses from their taxes.