The Economic Affairs Interim Committee, comprised of members of the state Senate and state House, convened on Monday, where lawmakers passed five changes to help resolve issues with the state’s cannabis industry, which were proposed by the Montana Department of Revenue. Montana was one of four states last year... Read more
For the most part, South Dakota voters are on board with their governor. Large majorities approve of her overall job performance, as well as her handling of the state’s economy and approach to the COVID-19 pandemic. But when it comes to Kristi Noem’s handling of cannabis legalization in the... Read more
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura O. Jones signed a cannabis decriminalization ordinance this week, saying the measure will help address racial disparities in the city’s enforcement of cannabis prohibition laws. Jones approved the measure, which was passed by the Board of Alderman last month, at a signing ceremony held at... Read more
A legalization bill for Rhode Island is expected to be ready sometime during quarter one of 2022. Last week, Rhode Island Representative and House Speaker Joe Shekarchi mentioned the progress of a cannabis legalization bill for his state, which is almost ready to be introduced. Shekarchi was featured in... Read more
Visa recently issued a memo detailing a common scheme being used by businesses in the cannabis industry—“cashless ATM” point-of-sale (POS) transactions. Cashless ATM transactions take place when a merchant takes an order, rounds up the total to an even number, and then runs a transaction, miscoded as an ATM... Read more
A toke before sleep is the key to shut-eye for many, but new research published this week suggests that may not be the case. The study, published Monday in The BMJ, sought to “determine the relationship between cannabis use and nightly sleep duration in a nationally representative dataset,” which... Read more
Often the best inventions and innovations are born out of necessity—which is exactly what sparked the creation and development of the Grasshopper. Grasshopper Co-founders Luke Daly and Jesse Bloomfield shared why they had to build the tool they needed—because it didn’t exist yet. The Grasshopper is an all-in-one tool... Read more
