German lawmakers have approved a series of changes to the country’s marijuana legalization law, imposing restrictions related to impaired driving and giving states more authority to set limits on cannabis cultivation within their borders. After moving through a pair of committees, the Bundestag adopted the amendments on Thursday. This... Read more

As the governor of Florida campaigns against a marijuana legalization ballot initiative, he has, in a seemingly contradictory move, vetoed a bill to ban the sale of intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoids in his state. This comes amid recent reporting that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) planned to block the hemp prohibition... Read more

Lawmakers from New Hampshire’s Senate and House of Representatives have reached a deal on a long-debated piece of legislation that would legalize marijuana for adults, advancing a compromise bill out of a bicameral conference committee on Thursday and returning the amended measure to both chambers for final up-or-down votes.... Read more

A New Jersey Senate panel approved an amended psilocybin bill on Thursday, advancing substitute language that removed earlier provisions that would have broadly legalized possession, use and cultivation by adults in order to instead focus exclusively on therapeutic access to the psychedelic. The Senate Health, Human Services and Senior... Read more

Bipartisan congressional lawmakers are demanding that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) rescind a directive preventing its doctors from recommending medical cannabis to veterans in legal states, arguing that the administration’s recent rescheduling move underscores the need to withdraw the “antiquated marijuana restrictions rooted in the racist drug... Read more

At a conference committee meeting on Wednesday, lawmakers from New Hampshire’s Senate and House of Representatives made slow progress toward a potential deal to legalize marijuana, reaching agreement on a few key issues. But the panel still has more details to hammer out ahead of a deadline on Thursday.... Read more

Ahead of a New Jersey hearing on Thursday on a bill to legalize psilocybin and establish a system of licensed businesses to provide supervised access to the psychedelic, a new survey indicates that a majority of state residents agree with making it available for therapeutic use. The poll, from... Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris is shocked to learn there’s a strain of marijuana named after her, but she’s not planning to try it anytime soon. However, that’s not because she believes its a “gateway drug”—a long-held theory that she pushed back against in a new interview. During an appearance... Read more