Cannabis dispensaries up and down California were looted over the weekend as protests sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police turned violent in cities across the state. A growing list of California retail cannabis shops impacted by looting compiled on social media included... Read more
Arrests for marijuana dropped last year in Virginia compared to 2018, an encouraging development for a state that is a month away from decriminalization taking effect. Commonwealth law enforcement completed 26,470 arrests in 2019 for pot-related offenses, which NORML noted represented a drop from 28,866 such arrests the year... Read more
As per a 2017 agreement to revisit legal cannabis later on, a referendum on legalizing cannabis will be held during the 2020 elections in New Zealand this September. A draft of the bill has been published in the country that asks ‘Do you support the proposed “Cannabis Legalisation and... Read more
Researchers studying two altars from an ancient shrine in Israel have discovered that cannabis was used in religious rituals at the site. The discovery is the earliest evidence of cannabis use in the Ancient Near East, according to authors of a study published Thursday in the archaeological journal Tel... Read more
Medical marijuana patients in Montana will gain improved access to their medicine under a state law that goes into effect next week. The measure, Senate Bill 265, eliminates a requirement under existing statute known as tethering that limits patients to using only one medicinal cannabis provider. J.J. Thomas, the... Read more
The technicolor gold rush in the capitalization of psychedelics companies continued Thursday as Red Light Holland, a firm gearing up to enter the psilocybin truffles market in the Netherlands, saw its stock listed on the Canadian Stock Exchange (CSE). The listing follows similar moves by Champignon Brands and MindMed... Read more
Legislation aimed at expanding Louisiana’s medical marijuana program cleared another hurdle Wednesday, as the bill was passed by the state Senate. The bill, HB819, would broaden the potential pool of eligible medical cannabis patients by permitting a physician to prescribe such a treatment to someone suffering from what the... Read more
