If the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ultimately decides not to move forward with marijuana rescheduling, many small and minority-owned cannabis business will have to close shop, “resulting in major economic losses and unemployment,” according to a new industry report. But enacting the reform, in contrast, would grow the sector,... Read more

The governor of California has signed a bill into law that’s meant to streamline the processing of applications to study psychedelics and marijuana. While advocates have experienced a series of setbacks in the push to provide legal access to certain psychedelics over the past several sessions, Gov. Gavin Newsom... Read more

More than 1 in 5 patients who go to orthopedic surgeons with chronic musculoskeletal pain are using or have used some form of cannabis to manage their pain, according to a new study published this month. Of those, almost two thirds said they felt cannabis was very or somewhat... Read more

Ohio officials have approved the state’s first adult-use marijuana business licenses, teeing up the launch of recreational sales. About a month after the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) signed off on dozens of provisional dual licenses for existing medical marijuana dispensaries, cultivators, processors and testing labs, regulators issued a... Read more

The window to weigh in on the federal government’s proposal to move marijuana to Schedule III of the Controlled Substance Act (CSA) closes soon, but there’s still time to file comments on what could be the most significant federal cannabis policy change in decades. The 60-day public comment period... Read more

A group of nine U.S. senators is calling on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to “expeditiously” develop a standard of care for veterans using medical marijuana and allow the department’s doctors to recommend cannabis to patients in light of the Biden administration’s proposal to reclassify the drug.... Read more