New York’s governor unveiled a marijuana business and product verification tool on Thursday, with plans to post a QR code on licensed cannabis retailers and a universal symbol label for authorized cannabis products. Meanwhile, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) held a press conference to tout enforcement actions... Read more

Kansas lawmakers on Thursday held the last in a series of special committee meetings on medical marijuana issues that will be used to inform reform legislation that will be introduced in the 2023 session. The Special Committee on Medical Marijuana, members of which toured a Missouri cannabis cultivation facility... Read more

Congressional researchers released a new report that details the “expanding policy gap” between federal and state marijuana laws, emphasizing that states are continuing to move forward with legalization, regardless of whether Congress “decides to address the inconsistencies” between the disparate sets of policies. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has... Read more

Amid swirling reports that marijuana banking provisions may be excluded from a yet-to-be-filed omnibus spending bill, some lawmakers are pushing back, while advocacy groups and industry stakeholders are stepping up their calls for action in what’s left of Congress’s lame duck session. To be clear, the text of the... Read more

As the clock keeps ticking during the final weeks of Congress’s lame duck session, Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) says marijuana banking reform is one of the “outstanding” items he’s committed to advancing before his retirement. A key senator also said that a deal on the bill “absolutely could still... Read more

U.S. Pardon Attorney Elizabeth Oyer said on Tuesday that the Justice Department will soon give people the opportunity obtain certificates for presidential marijuana pardons through a soon-to-be-launched application process that they expect will only take 10 minutes to complete. The official also weighed in on the fact that the... Read more

Texas activists have turned in what they say are enough signatures to place a measure on the Harker Heights ballot to reverse a City Council move that repealed a voter-approved marijuana decriminalization initiative. Ground Game Texas, which was behind a number of successful local decriminalization measures that passed this... Read more