If legislators don’t pass bills regulating marijuana legalization, the drug will remain illegal — even if the Jan. 1 effective date of the legal weed ballot question passes, according to one constitutional law expert. More than two-thirds of New Jersey voters cast ballots to amend the state constitution to legalize marijuana,... Read more
Commissioners seem ready to close out a bumpy policy-setting process next week with a vote to adopt new regulations that would reshape the legal marijuana industry to include a home delivery aspect, but that decision could give way to a legal challenge in short order. Through an attorney, some... Read more
November 24, 2020 by AggregatedNews Leave a Comment On the campus of a medical marijuana grower in Rocky Hill, state lawmakers on Tuesday outlined two possible paths to legalizing recreational marijuana, which has eluded Connecticut for years while neighboring states have passed it. The first — voting on a... Read more
Bill Stocker could be considered the archetype of a conservative voter: He’s a retired Marine and former police officer who voted for President Trump. But he’s also among the majority of South Dakota voters who broadly legalized marijuana this month. Stocker, 61, said enforcing marijuana laws gets in the... Read more
Gov. Ralph Northam said Monday he plans to propose legislation legalizing marijuana when the General Assembly convenes in January, setting the state on a path to become the first in the South to allow recreational use of the drug. “We are going to move forward with legalizing marijuana in... Read more
With Illinois facing a nearly $4 billion budget deficit next year, lawmakers and cannabis industry insiders have claimed the state is missing out on more than $100 million in tax revenue by blocking certain pot shops from relocating. While the state’s economy has been upended by the coronavirus pandemic,... Read more
Laura Simes started getting nervous in July when her new agent card allowing her to legally work in the cannabis industry hadn’t arrived in the mail. It’d been a month since her card expired. She’d sent in the fees and all the needed information to the Cannabis Compliance Board,... Read more
Members of the House of Delegates expect it to pass. In the Senate, they give it “slightly better than 50-50 odds.” And Gov. Ralph Northam’s office says he’s “certainly open to it.” Proposals to legalize recreational marijuana in Virginia are set to get their first serious hearings when the... Read more
Last year, customers went into Canna Provisions stores with lists, buying marijuana products as holiday gifts for friends and family. “As the whole gift-buying season was rolling out, we definitely saw people come in with their shopping lists. ‘I’m going to get grandma a topical and I’m going to get Uncle... Read more
Michigan is among 19 states whose marijuana regulatory agencies have collectively created a new cannabis-related organization. The Cannabis Regulators Association — CANNRA — is billed as a newly-formed, non-partisan group established to share institutional knowledge and regulatory best practices with federal, state and local jurisdictions who’ve approved legalization of marijuana... Read more
