Marijuana aficionados and entrepreneurs across New Mexico are bracing for the April 1 start of state-regulated retail marijuana. New Mexico joins 17 other states that have legalized recreational marijuana without significant legal challenges. The start date for sales ushers in a new era for cannabis as big business with... Read more
The chairman of the D.C. Council said that Congress is making crime worse in the District by continuing to stop local leaders from regulating the sale of recreational marijuana. “It perpetuates the current lawless situation in the city,” said Council Chairman Phil Mendelson. “Congress needs to step out of... Read more
A criminal record doesn’t always hurt New York state’s plan to let people with past convictions for marijuana crimes become the first to sell it legally is admirable, but faces some major challenges. The dynamic pits what’s now referred to as the “legacy market” of once-illegal sellers against the publicly traded multi-state... Read more
A group of Colorado lawmakers wants to increase oversight of the state’s marijuana businesses, but the cannabis industry is ready to fight the proposal. Senate Bill 149, a nonpartisan bill introduced on March 7, proposes new reporting requirements for such marijuana business violations as sales to underage minors, contaminated product... Read more
After a hiatus brought since a 2019 cancellation, then the pandemic in the subsequent years,Reggae On The River music festival could be back this year.
A draft federal spending bill unveiled by Democratic congressional leaders on Wednesday maintains a seven-year-old prohibition on D.C. legalizing recreational marijuana sales, again frustrating local efforts to tax and regulate sales that many states — including Maryland and Virginia — are currently pushing forward. It also maintains a longstanding provision that forbids the city from spending money... Read more
Not every town is high on the idea of legalizing recreational marijuana for adults. But to opt out under the “Rhode Island Cannabis Act” introduced this week, towns would have to put the question on the ballot in November. Take Middletown, for example. Last year, the Town Council passed an ordinance that prohibits... Read more
Not every town is high on the idea of legalizing recreational marijuana for adults. But to opt out under the “Rhode Island Cannabis Act” introduced this week, towns would have to put the question on the ballot in November. Take Middletown, for example. Last year, the Town Council passed an ordinance that prohibits... Read more
Pennsylvania lawmakers researching a bill to legalize recreational marijuana received a barrage of information Tuesday during a spirited, two-hour hearing in West Philadelphia. They heard testimony espousing their instituting automatic and retroactive mass expungement of cannabis convictions and keeping the state’s “white cartel” of medical marijuana firms’ executives from... Read more