Implementation of Delaware’s new marijuana legalization law is expected to proceed more rapidly following the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) new issuance of a fingerprint service code to state cannabis regulators. FBI had previously rejected the state’s request to create a fingerprint background check system for would-be cannabis industry... Read more

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is looking for contractors to analyze and explain scientific evidence on medical marijuana to clinicians and the general public as part of VA’s Systematically Testing the Evidence of Marijuana (STEM) project. The work aims to evaluate and allow VA to more clearly... Read more

The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is touting the cancellation of another marijuana-related federal grant—this time targeting a program that’s long tracked cannabis potency levels in seized illicit products. The contract has historically been awarded to the University of Mississippi, which for decades was the sole federally... Read more

Just one day after Pennsylvania Democrats filed a much-anticipated bill to legalize marijuana with a novel model of state-run stores, a House committee has already approved the measure—with floor consideration now expected imminently in the face of criticism about how fast the proposal is advancing. The legislation is being... Read more

Colorado House lawmakers have advanced a Senate-passed bill that would empower the governor to grant pardons to people who’ve been convicted of psychedelics-related offenses while also revising implementation rules and data-tracking provisions for the state’s 2022 voter-approved psychedelics legalization law. Members of House passed SB25-297 on second reading in... Read more

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) has vetoed a bill that would have allowed deliveries of medical marijuana directly to patients at locations other than their own homes. As passed by the legislature earlier this year, the measure—HB 1989, from Del. Alex Askew (D)—would have made a number of changes... Read more