Regulations

In a 3-2 vote, Massachusetts regulators narrowly approved the creation of regulations for a pilot social-use cannabis program. Currently, Alaska is the only other state with a social-use program.

The Vermont bill to create a taxed and regulated system for adult-use cannabis sales is likely dead until lawmakers — some saying they don’t want to rush the policy-making process — bring it up again next year.

In lieu of the adult-use cannabis reforms he hoped to establish this year, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed an executive order expanding the state’s medical cannabis program.

The Pittsburg, California City Council has enacted a 45-day moratorium on new hemp businesses in order to prepare hemp regulations that will cooperate with state cannabis laws.

The Texas House has approved a second bill this session expanding the state’s limited medical cannabis program — the legislature’s recent advances, however, are expected to face an uphill battle in the Senate.

A bill eliminating Iowa’s 3% THC cap on medical cannabis products has passed both houses of the state legislature; it’s still unknown, however, whether the governor intends to sign the bill.

Washington has established a clearer timeline for the official completion of the state’s long-awaited cannabis seed to sale traceability system.

Washington state’s cannabis regulatory authority has announced that, after a three-month hiatus from the testing requirements, cannabis products must once again be tested for heavy metals.

Alabama’s Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a bill that would vastly overhaul and improve the state’s limited medical cannabis program.

The legal counsel for Vermont Gov. Phil Scott says that recently passed legislation establishing adult-use cannabis sales in the state defies the state Constitution.

Under the new rules, low-THC cannabis oils allowed by the program will now be able to be produced and purchased by patients within Georgia’s state boundaries.

A bi-partisan Massachusetts proposal would subject unlicensed cannabis sellers to a “foregone tax revenue assessment,” which would bill illegal operators based on the “estimated forgone tax revenue” resulted from their unregulated sales.

A Massachusetts investigation aims to uncover whether or not two of the state’s large cannabis companies have thwarted state rules regarding the number of licenses that a single company can hold.

New legislation in Florida would establish rules for farmers and other businesses to cultivate, manufacture, and sell industrial hemp products.

The House Financial Services Committee is set to vote next week on the SAFE Banking Act; it will be the first Congressional cannabis vote of the year.

With the state’s controversial medical cannabis smoking ban now overturned, the Florida cannabis industry is set to explode in the coming months with additional sales and growth.

New Mexico state lawmakers have sent a host of cannabis-related legislation to the governor’s desk. Full adult-use legalization, however, did not make the cut this year.

Both houses of the Florida state Congress have now approved the legislation by landslide votes. The bill overturning Florida’s cannabis smoking ban now proceeds to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk.

Alaska’s Lieutenant Governor Kevin Meyer has given the final sign-off on rules making Alaska the first state to allow on-site cannabis consumption in the state.

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

Hawaii will now let cannabis patients from other states access its medical cannabis program while visiting.

A bill that would lift Florida’s hotly-contested ban on smoking medical cannabis is expected to be signed into law by March 15.

A bill allowing state-licensed medical cannabis companies to access banking services in West Virginia has passed both the state House and Senate and now awaits the governor’s signature.

FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who just announced plans to create federal CBD regulations, now says he will retire next month.