Medical cannabis legalization is back on the table in Kansas. Senate Bill 560, the Medical Marijuana Regulation Act, was introduced March 11 in the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee and is sponsored by Sen. Robert Olson, a Republican who serves as the vice chair of the committee. The... Read more

Medical cannabis legalization is back on the table in Kansas. Senate Bill 560, the Medical Marijuana Regulation Act, was introduced March 11 in the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee and is sponsored by Sen. Robert Olson, a Republican who serves as the vice chair of the committee. The... Read more

A bill to limit the number of medical cannabis testing facilities to two license holders in West Virginia took one of the stranger paths to defeat. While the vast majority of proposed bills never become law, House Bill 4627 had overwhelming support in both chambers of the West Virginia... Read more

After nearly five years serving as the first executive director of the Los Angeles Department of Cannabis Regulation (DCR), Cat Packer is stepping down from the head regulator position of California’s largest city.   As the department’s executive director, Packer advised Los Angeles officials on cannabis law, policy and... Read more

Talley Wettlaufer, vice president of retail for multistate cannabis operator Curaleaf, says she was one of the few people who tried to convince a recruiter that she wasn’t the right fit for her current role. “I got an email from a recruiter on LinkedIn, just saying, ‘Hey, would you... Read more

A handful of Alberta cannabis retailers launched online cannabis sales and delivery services March 8, when the province shut down its government-run operation and handed over those responsibilities to private-sector licensees. Previously, the province’s only legal, non-medical online cannabis sales were available through a website run by government regulator... Read more

Editor’s note: This article was updated March 11 to reflect that cannabis being grown under DEA approval is not readily available on the U.S. market but rather only to Schedule I research license holders. Federally approved cannabis is now being grown in the private U.S. sector for scientific research,... Read more

Editor’s note: This article was updated March 11 to reflect that cannabis being grown under DEA approval is not readily available on the U.S. market but rather only to Schedule I research license holders. Federally approved cannabis is now being grown in the private U.S. sector for scientific research,... Read more

Editor’s note: This article was updated March 11 to reflect that cannabis being grown under DEA approval is not readily available on the U.S. market but rather only to Schedule I research license holders. Federally approved cannabis is now being grown in the private U.S. sector for scientific research,... Read more

For Casey O’Neill, owner and operator of HappyDay Farms, a ban on direct-to-consumer sales under California’s adult-use cannabis regulations was the first of many blows to small farmers operating in the state’s regulated marketplace—and the blows just kept coming. That’s why O’Neill, along with 19 other Mendocino County-based cannabis... Read more