Cannabis Legalization News

Legislative leaders had packaged the medical cannabis and recreational bills together hoping to garner more ‘yes’ votes for legalization, but may need to take separate action to benefit medical patients if the adult-use bill continues to flounder.

At least one New York village has announced plans to sue the state government if lawmakers approve statewide legalization legislation.

Guam lawmakers narrowly passed a legalization bill on Wednesday; the bill now goes to Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero for her final decision on legalizing cannabis in the U.S. territory.

A vote was expected after the legalization bill passed two legislative committees last week, but a number of dissenting Democratic senators means the vote would fail — for now.

A hemp bill has passed unanimously from the Idaho state House of Representatives to the Senate; lawmakers are anxious for a change in the face of hemp’s recent federal legalization.

New York’s governor has pulled his cannabis legalization plan from the state’s budget, planning instead to let lawmakers address the issue in the next legislative session this summer.

After it passed several key legislative hurdles, New Jersey lawmakers are set to vote on the state’s pending legalization bill as early as next week.

Several Black lawmakers in New York say they will not support any legalization bill that does not provide explicit, specific provisions for reinvestment in minority communities.

An American law firm is suing U.S. Customs and Border Protection to get documents released showing whether or not the agency has the authority to hand out lifetime bans, as it has been doing for Canadian cannabis workers since last year.

A compromise bill between Senate Republicans and House Democrats has been approved in the New Mexico House of Representatives.

A bill introduced in 2017 that failed to receive a hearing has been re-introduced to the Senate in the new session.

The legalization bill now advances to the Senate but Republican Gov. Chris Sununu has already promised to veto the legislation if it were to reach his desk.

Statistics Canada released consumer data showing that men and younger demographics seem to be the majority of consumers at this stage.

Researchers investigated over 800,000 high school students in 45 states and discovered that medical cannabis legalization appears to lead to a decline in teenage and adolescent cannabis consumption.

The United Bodegas of America and other bodega owners are lobbying New York lawmakers for the ability to sell cannabis alongside their current offerings of tobacco and alcohol.

A months-long disagreement between prominent state Democrats over cannabis legalization details has come to an end, reports indicate, and cannabis legalization legislation may move forward in New Jersey.

Kentucky’s Republican Governor said he would support properly-worded medical cannabis legislation in the state, referencing personal experiences with a family member who had died from cancer.

A bill legalizing adult-use cannabis in New Mexico has passed the first of two committees in the New Mexico House of Representatives.

The bill proposes using 50 percent of the revenue generated to reduce student loan debt in the state.

The New Jersey Senator, who has already introduced significant cannabis legalization legislation to the federal Congress, announced his campaign on the Tom Joyner Morning Show.

Despite significant support for cannabis legalization in New York, lawmakers are having a difficult time negotiating funds for establishing the program.

Thanks to a small group of bipartisan lawmakers, there is now a bill for full adult-use legalization in Minnesota being considered in the Legislature.

While cannabis consumption is up across the nation and cannabis dependency is down, liberal states are showing a greater gap between the two — lower dependency despite even higher consumption.

The governor of the Virgin Islands has signed into law the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act.