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U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra is already working with the FDA to review cannabis’ federal scheduling status as directed by President Biden during his pardoning announcement last week.

Recent polls found the majority of Americans support President Biden’s move to pardon federal cannabis possession charges and want governors around the country to follow suit per the president’s request.

A new poll released on Wednesday found that 60% of US voters believe cannabis should be federally legal.

DEA Museum historian Kasey Sease, Ph.D. admitted that the reasons for criminalizing drug use were based on racial, ethnic, and class prejudice. 

The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled last month that importing cannabis paraphernalia into the US is legal, breaking a previous Controlled Substances Act ban.

President Joe Biden issued a pardon for all federal cannabis possession charges on Thursday and said his administration would take steps to consider rescheduling cannabis under federal law.

A Washington Post and University of Maryland poll found that 74% of Maryland voters support adult-use cannabis legalization.

Massachusetts authorities are investigating the circumstances around the death of former Trulieve employee Lorna McMurrey, who OSHA concluded died after inhaling “ground cannabis dust” at the company’s Holyoke facility.

Kansas lawmakers will be considering medical cannabis reforms during two meetings this month to review the bill and hear input from law enforcement, state agencies, and the public.

Nevada adult-use cannabis sales reached $965 million during the fiscal year 2022.

The FDA has tapped a former New York and Rhode Island cannabis regulator as its first senior policy advisor on cannabis.

DEA pharmaceutical cannabis license-holder Biopharmaceutical Research Company has raised $20 million in its Series A funding round. 

Morocco has distributed its first permits for medical, pharmaceutical, and industrial cannabis production.

An online poll by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s Medical Cannabis Advisory Committee found that 98.4% of Kentuckians support medical cannabis reforms in the state.

The Amsterdam council is expected to vote against banning tourists from the city’s cannabis-serving coffee shops.

Iowa Democrats included adult-use cannabis legalization in their campaign platform for the upcoming November elections.

A judge in Georgia has halted the production of medical cannabis following legal protests against the process that awarded the two licenses.

Adult-use cannabis sales launched in Vermont over the weekend; at least 70 Vermont municipalities have opted to allow retail cannabis sales.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said a worker at Trulieve’s Holyoke, Massachusetts cannabis facility, Lorna McMurrey, died after inhaling “ground cannabis dust.”

Conservative police commissioners in the United Kingdom want to reclassify cannabis from a Class B to a Class A drug, which would put the plant in the same category as heroin and cocaine.

Longtime cannabis advocate, author, entrepreneur, and investor Steve DeAngelo published an op-ed this week that decries the cannabis industry’s drive for “scale” and calls for the widespread return of small, artisan operators.

Japan’s government is debating legalizing cannabis medicines, a historic change in Japan’s zero-tolerance drug laws.

A former Green Thumb Industries employee has filed an age and sex discrimination lawsuit against the company after allegedly being passed over for a shift supervisor position for a younger and less qualified male co-worker.

New Mexico Supreme Court Chief Justice Shannon Bacon wants individuals to file their own expungement applications instead of requiring the state’s judicial branch to find eligible cases, a change to the current legalization law.