“For the patients that this program is designed to serve, it’s not always worked well enough. This bill is an effort to make sure that for the patients, this program works better.” By Maya Homan, Georgia Recorder A bill aimed at modernizing Georgia’s medical cannabis program passed the House with broad bipartisan support, marking another…
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Virginia House and Senate lawmakers have reached a deal on a final bill to legalize recreational marijuana sales in the commonwealth. While both chambers approved companion versions of the cannabis legislation this session, with amendments adopted along the way that more closely aligned them, there were still key outstanding differences to resolve after the latest…
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Bipartisan congressional lawmakers have filed a bill that would repeal a decades-old federal statute that’s led to the denial of housing for millions of people with prior drug convictions. Reps. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-FL) and Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA) filed the legislation—titled the “Fair Future Act”—last week. An earlier version was introduced with a Senate companion…
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Federal marijuana rescheduling would represent a historic policy change with major implications for cannabis research and industry—but it should be viewed as a “transitional” step that must be followed up with comprehensive reform to better align state and federal law while promoting equity, a new academic paper argues. Professors at the University of California published…
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The Delaware Senate has unanimously approved a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis in hospitals. After advancing through the Senate Health & Social Services Committee, with a clarifying amendment, the full chamber passed the legislation from Sen. Marie Pinkney (D) in a 21-0 vote on Thursday. It now heads to…
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The New Hampshire House of Representatives has effectively killed bills to legalize marijuana and allow the therapeutic use of psilocybin by not bringing them up for floor votes ahead of a key deadline. Meanwhile, separate legislation on those topics has already advanced. As legislators continue to push for a variety of drug policy reform proposals,…
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With Massachusetts voters potentially facing a November ballot initiative to roll back the state’s recreational marijuana law, a new report from officials finds legalization is achieving one of its primary goals: disrupting illicit cannabis sales as adults transition to the regulated market. The report from the Cannabis Control Commission (CCC), released on Friday, found that,…
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My courageous struggle to stay high through the marijuana dark ages of the ‘80s and ‘90s. If you’re not listening to vinyl, you’re not listening, period.It’s vinyl or nothing for me. Literally. — Cannabis enthusiast, 1920sPart 1: The ‘80sPart II: The ‘90s Allan H. is a man of a certain age living in Los Angeles;…
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