A New York lawmaker has introduced a bill that would create a pilot program to provide psilocybin therapy to 10,000 people, focusing on military veterans and first responders, while the legislature also considers broader psychedelics reform. Assemblymember Pat Burke (D), who has championed various psychedelics measures over recent sessions,... Read more

Passenger cruise lines like Carnival and Royal Caribbean have policies against marijuana, noting that the substance is illegal in many ports it sails to and that they’re following federal law. But as more people return to the ships, and as more of them come from states where the drug... Read more

As Virginia’s Republican governor and other leaders pursue a plan to bring two professional sports teams—the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals—to Alexandria, the state’s Democratic Senate leader suggested this week that her support for the plan might be contingent on getting a bill to legalize marijuana sales enacted into... Read more

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is taking another shot at banning two psychedelics after abandoning its original scheduling proposal last year, teeing up another fight with researchers and advocates who say the compounds hold therapeutic potential. In a notice published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, DEA again proposed... Read more

Bipartisan congressional lawmakers are urging House appropriators to ensure that a large-scale spending bill maintains language to allow U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) doctors to issue medical marijuana recommendations to veterans living in legal states. In a letter sent to to House Appropriations Committee leadership on Friday that... Read more

A federal appellate panel has denied a motion by lawyers for a Washington State doctor trying to reschedule psilocybin under the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA). In an order this week, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected the doctor’s request for... Read more

Nationwide marijuana legalization in all states would grow annual cannabis tax revenue to $8.5 billion, according to a new report from a nonprofit think tank that includes a “blueprint” for taxing sales. The Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation is proposing a state and federal marijuana tax model that keeps costs... Read more

The governor of Pennsylvania has signed a bill to allow all licensed medical marijuana grower-processors in the state to serve as retailers and sell their cannabis products directly to patients. Just two days after the Senate gave final approval to the legislation—which was amended to further grant grower permits... Read more

The GOP Kansas Senate leader says he’s “open” to medical marijuana—but only in restricted form for seriously ill or terminal patients. And he might want to do a pilot program first before potentially expanding the limited reform. During an interview with KCUR that aired on Thursday, Senate President Ty... Read more