Cannabis Legalization News

South Dakota lawmakers recommended changing the state’s voter-approved medical cannabis law to prohibit home cultivation and let local governments ban dispensaries.

Panama lawmakers voted unanimously to legalize medical cannabis but home cultivation and cannabis advertising remain illegal.

Ohio cannabis advocates are set to start gathering signatures after the Ohio Ballot Board formally approved a cannabis legalization ballot initiative.

The adult-use cannabis ordinance approved by the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Tribal Council took effect yesterday, allowing the tribes to regulate the commercial cultivation, processing, and distribution of cannabis.

Advocates in Missouri have filed a ballot initiative to legalize cannabis for adults in the state. They must now collect 175,000 signatures to secure the issue on next year’s midterm ballots.

Medical cannabis advocates with Kind Idaho are collecting signatures to put the Idaho Medical Marijuana Act on state ballots for the 2022 election.

The North Carolina Senate Health Care Committee on Thursday advanced a medical cannabis bill moving it closer to a vote in the full chamber.

The North Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday advanced a medical cannabis bill and added language outlining various requirements doctors will have to meet before recommending medical cannabis.

The Ohio Attorney General’s Office has approved the summary language of a petition to legalize adult-use cannabis in the state, two weeks after determining that previous language wasn’t “fair and truthful.”

The new Virginia Socialist Marijuana Coalition hopes to rally activists from across the state to push for more local equitable cannabis policies.

The Ohio Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol has re-submitted a petition to legalize adult-use cannabis after the first draft was rejected by the state Attorney General on procedural grounds.

There is an illegal U.S.-to-Mexico cannabis market developing where cannabis grown in California is being smuggled across the Mexico border.

As many as half of New Jersey’s municipalities are set to opt out of the state’s new adult-use cannabis market with a looming deadline of August 21.

A cannabis legalization bill has been introduced in Wisconsin for the fifth consecutive legislative session despite previous versions of the bill never receiving a hearing by either the House or Senate.

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is the first location in North Carolina to legalize the production and sale of medical cannabis after passing an ordinance last week.

Cannabis advocates in Nebraska are planning two new initiatives to legalize medical cannabis in the latest attempt to pass cannabis reforms in the state.

The Ohio attorney general rejected summary language for a cannabis legalization proposal submitted by the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol.

Lawmakers in Ohio have introduced a bill to legalize cannabis for adult use in the state, with plans to use the revenue to fund education, infrastructure, and cannabis research.

Maryland voters will likely get a chance to pass cannabis legalization via a voter referendum in 2022, according to Maryland House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones (D).

Charles Koch plans to use $25 million of his $45 billion fortune to influence cannabis legalization reforms by the end of the year.

Ohio cannabis advocates have submitted summary language for a cannabis legalization ballot initiative to the state attorney general’s office.

Advocates in Arkansas are gathering signatures to put an adult-use legalization question to voters during the 2022 midterm elections.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) appointed five individuals to the state’s Cannabis Control Authority.

States that enacted cannabis legalization saw a six-month decline in opioid-related ER visits, according to a recent study.