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by NORMLApril 4, 2019 Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Cory Gardner (R-CO), along with Representatives David Joyce (R-OH) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), have reintroduced The Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States (STATES) Act of 2019. This Act amends the...

The California Senate is scheduled to vote on Thursday on a bill that would extend temporary licenses for thousands of cannabis cultivators waiting for their permanent license applications to be approved. The measure, Senate Bill 67, was introduced by...

The Food and Drug Administration is looking to update its take on CBD, the agency has declared. As part of the process, its first public hearing on the subject is set to take place on May 31. Those looking to...

Cannabis legalization has hit a turning point. No longer are the most exciting conversations about whether to legalize; today they’re about how best to go about it. As legal cannabis evolves from an abstract concept to a fully fleshed-out...

The next wave of attacks on cannabis companies is likely to shift from short raids to traditional activist campaigns focused on better governance. That’s according to Patricia Olasker, Partner at Toronto-based Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, which ranked...

Michigan regulators keep trying to shut down the state’s unlicensed medical cannabis businesses. But Court of Claims Judge Stephen Borrello keeps blocking them. On Thursday, Judge Borrello signed his latest restraining order against the enforcement of a dispensary licensing...

To succeed in capitalism, you need capital. Unfortunately, women and people of color historically don’t have equal access to large sums of money. Investment capital isn't spread equally. That's where Treehouse Global finds its financial advantage. That makes it difficult to build...

Lawmakers' solution to the cannabis industry's all-cash operations problem is called the SAFE Banking Act, and on March 28, 2019, the proposed legislation took a big step forward, clearing the Financial Services committee by a wide margin. U.S. Democratic Rep....

Laguna Woods Village is an age-restricted retirement community in Southern California where, until recently, it was legal to sell medical cannabis. That changed on the first day of 2019, though, when an ordinance passed by the City of Laguna...

Because the cannabis industry and landscape changes at a rapid pace, many have predictions about the next big thing in weed. That doesn't mean we'll have the flying car of dispensaries anytime soon, but weed-trimming robots are right around...