The race for a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania is putting drug policy reform in the spotlight, with the GOP candidate known best as Dr. Oz and the national Republican party evidently convinced that an effective line of attack is to challenge the Democratic nominee’s support for issues like... Read more
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Monday vetoed a bill to create a pilot program for safe drug consumption sites in major cities across the state—a decision viewed as a setback to the harm reduction movement that contradicts the governor’s progressive drug policy reform record. There was an open... Read more
Oklahoma officials certified on Monday that activists have collected enough valid signatures to place a marijuana legalization initiative before voters. But the measure may not end up on this November’s ballot as planned, because there are still additional formalities the proposal needs to go through as state deadlines to... Read more
“This time around, we were ready. And we wanted to avoid litigating, of course. And that worked out real well.” By Tessa Weinberg, Missouri Independent In a span of a little over two weeks, an initiative petition to legalize recreational marijuana in Missouri made an unexpected comeback. In late... Read more
A pair of medical marijuana legalization initiatives will not appear on Nebraska’s ballot in November, the state announced on Monday. But while advocates are disappointed, they’re already turning their attention to 2024 for another push. While activists with Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana (NMM) had held out hope that they... Read more
Prohibitionists are again aiming to leverage the court system to stop voters from having the chance to enact marijuana legalization at the ballot, with new legal challenges threatening reform initiatives in Arkansas and Missouri. Most recently, a lawsuit filed in Missouri on Friday argues that the language of a... Read more
Medical cannabis sales dropped precipitously for the seventh month in a row while adult-use transactions are setting records. By David Abbott, Arizona Mirror Medical marijuana sales in Arizona continue to crater as recreational sales remain robust, according to tax and sales data compiled by the Arizona Department of Revenue.... Read more
Support for marijuana legalization in Wisconsin has reached a new, bipartisan high, according to a poll released on Wednesday. The survey from Marquette Law School found that a solid 69 percent of registered voters in Wisconsin believe cannabis should be legal, which marks an eight percentage point increase since... Read more
Commercial drivers who use CBD products are doing so “at their own risk,” a federal agency says in a draft handbook for medical examiners who are responsible for issuing U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) certifications. The proposed guidance, published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, is meant to advise... Read more
Missouri voters haven’t even had a chance to vote on the marijuana legalization initiative that’s on the November ballot yet, but regulators are already taking steps to “begin planning” for passage, asking for public comment on “how the new law should be implemented.” The Missouri Department of Health and... Read more
