The Maryland Senate passed a bill to regulate marijuana sales on Friday as the state prepares for the launch of legalization on July 1. Bicameral lawmakers will now work to resolve the measure’s differences with a separate version of the legislation that was approved by the House of Delegates... Read more

German officials are planning to proceed with a scaled-back version of cannabis legalization, having abandoned—at least for now—a more sweeping proposal that would have ushered in legal cannabis sales across the country. The country’s health minister, Karl Lauterbach, had pledged to unveil new cannabis legislation by the end of... Read more

Bipartisan congressional lawmakers have refiled a bill to provide military veterans with access to medical marijuana. Reps. Brian Mast (R-FL) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), co-chairs of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, are the chief sponsors of the Veterans Equal Access Act. The measure has been introduced several times in recent... Read more

The Kentucky House of Representatives has approved a Senate-passed medical marijuana legalization bill, sending it to the governor to be signed into law. Shortly after moving through the House Licensing, Occupations and Administrative Regulations Committee earlier on Thursday, the full chamber approved the legislation from Sen. Stephen West (R)... Read more

A 14th Minnesota House committee has approved a bill to legalize marijuana, after members adopted a large-scale amendment to overhaul various tax provisions of the legislation. The House Taxes Committee passed the measure from Rep. Zack Stephenson (D) in a voice vote on Thursday. Members also received a much-anticipated... Read more

The Democratic governor of Delaware won’t say whether he plans to sign or veto a pair of bills the legislature sent to his desk this week to legalize marijuana and establish a regulated adult-use market. Advocates are closely watching to see if Gov. John Carney (D) will again exercise... Read more

The Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) says that it would be prudent for the state to legalize certain psychedelics like psilocybin and MDMA to prepare for a likely federal policy change allowing their use for medical treatment. At a hearing before the Senate Health and Human Services Committee last... Read more

A Republican congressman told the head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday that the agency’s failure to enact regulations for CBD is one of several problems that is “disrupting public confidence” in its abilities. Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) said during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing that... Read more

The Missouri House is one step closer to passing a bill that would legalize psilocybin therapy for certain patients while promoting research into the psychedelic and expanding the scope of the state’s existing “Right to Try” law for seriously ill people. The bill from Rep. Dan Houx (R) has... Read more

A Senate-passed bill to legalize medical marijuana in Kentucky moved closer to being enacted into law following a procedural step in the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The House advanced the measure from Sen. Stephen West (R) on second reading one day before the end of the legislative session.... Read more