A South Carolina House committee has taken up a GOP-led medical marijuana legalization bill—the first action the legislation has seen in the chamber since being approved by the Senate months ago. Members heard from multiple medical experts and law enforcement officials, including a retired chief of the state sheriffs’... Read more

A new settlement between the federal government and an Arizona-based nonprofit will permit the group to import and use ayahuasca as a religious sacrament—an agreement leaders are calling a historic milestone for spiritual freedom. Under the settlement announced by the Church of the the Eagle and the Condor (CEC),... Read more

Bipartisan congressional lawmakers are asking the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to produce a plan to begin providing MDMA-assisted therapy for veterans as soon as the psychedelic is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In a letter sent to VA Under Secretary Shereef Elnahal on Tuesday,... Read more

A South Carolina House committee will hold a hearing on a Senate-passed medical marijuana legalization bill this week—raising expectations that lawmakers may finally enact the GOP-led measure in the final days of the 2024 session after months of delay. And a Republican congresswoman from the state is urging supporters... Read more

Nearly three in five Americans consider alcohol or tobacco to be “more harmful” to a person’s health than marijuana, according to a new poll. The YouGov survey that was released on Thursday asked respondents about a variety of cannabis use trends. One of the more telling findings is that... Read more

A federal traffic safety agency has published an overdue report to Congress identifying barriers to marijuana research toward developing impaired driving detection technology—pointing out that rescheduling “may ease researcher access to products” for studies even though they will continue to be prohibited from accessing cannabis from state-licensed dispensaries. The... Read more