The Kentucky House of Representatives approved a bill to legalize medical marijuana in the state on Thursday. Following a successful vote in the Judiciary Committee last week, the full chamber passed the legislation in a 65-30 vote. It now heads to the Senate. If enacted into law, patients suffering... Read more
Barely a year after the legalization of hemp by the federal government with the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, state lawmakers in Georgia are pushing to re-criminalize possession of small amounts of the plant. Under a bill approved on Tuesday by the Georgia House of Representatives’ Agriculture and... Read more
Today marks an historic milestone for Hightimes Holding Corp. and the tens of thousands of people who have invested in it. On February 20, 2020, the company announced that it received notification from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) that it has been granted a trading symbol, clearing the... Read more
A National Football League player is facing significant prison time after federal agents said they found a staggering amount of marijuana in his vehicle. Greg Robinson, an offensive lineman who played last season for the Cleveland Browns, was in a Texas jail on Wednesday after getting booked by the... Read more
The New Hampshire House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday that would eliminate criminal and civil penalties for possessing and growing small amounts of pot. The legislation, House Bill 1648, was sponsored by Republican Rep. Carol McGuire and a bipartisan group of seven cosponsors. The bill was approved... Read more
Amid a flurry of tweaks to the medicinal marijuana system in the state, Oklahoma legislators have advanced bills that would alter the state’s cannabis regulations, including one that could bring cannabis delivery to medical cannabis patients. This week, Rep. Jon Echols’ House Bill 3227 was passed unanimously by a... Read more
Hemp production in the U.S. has scaled up rapidly since lawmakers lifted federal prohibition of the crop, with more acres of hemp grown in the country today than at any point since the 1940s. But the fledgling industry is still very much in flux, and reporting practices that vary... Read more
One week after bills to decriminalize marijuana in Virginia were passed by both the House and Senate, they advanced again on Wednesday in committee votes, where they were revised in an effort to ease the path to the governor’s desk. The goal was to make the language of the... Read more
For Colorado’s six-year-old legal marijuana industry, 2019 was a new high. Cannabis dispensaries in the state sold more than $1.74 billion worth of marijuana products, a record total. The staggering findings were released by the Colorado Department of Revenue, and first reported by Westword. The $1.74 billion figure represents... Read more
House of Saka, Inc., a Napa Valley, California company that makes alcohol-free, cannabis-infused beverages, is welcoming Sue Bachorski to its Senior Executive team in the role of Chief Operating and Financial Officer. Bachorski is joining House of Saka after spending 30 years as a Senior Operations and Finance Executive... Read more
