An initiative to legalize marijuana will not appear on Ohio’s November ballot, the campaign behind the measure announced on Friday. But activists did reach a settlement with state officials in a legal challenge that will give them a chance to hit the ground running in 2023. The Coalition to... Read more

The governor of California unveiled an updated budget proposal on Friday that calls for the elimination of the state’s marijuana cultivation tax and revised cannabis tax revenue allocations. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) May revised budget would take steps intended to combat the illicit market and make the legal industry... Read more

The Delaware Senate on Thursday approved a House-passed bill to legalize marijuana possession, sending it to the governor’s desk. Meanwhile, a separate, complementary proposal to set up commercial regulations for an adult-use market has also been advancing and is expected to move to the House floor before potentially being... Read more

Nearly a quarter of the members of the U.S. Senate are joining together to call on congressional leaders to ensure that marijuana banking provisions are enacted into law as part of a large-scale manufacturing bill. The 24 senators—including 19 Democrats and five Republicans—wrote in a letter that the Secure... Read more

Several congressional lawmakers pressed a top federal drug official on Wednesday about their concerns over marijuana legalization, though they seemed to signal that they view the reform as inevitable. Members of the House Appropriations subcommittee for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies directed... Read more

An effort by a South Carolina senator to resurrect legislation to legalize medical marijuana was unsuccessful on Wednesday. Sen. Tom Davis’s (R) move to add the main provisions of his bill to legalize medical marijuana to largely unrelated legislation was ruled not germane by Senate leadership, a move that... Read more