An Iowa Senate panel has approved a House-passed bill to create a state-regulated therapeutic psilocybin program for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The Senate Health and Human Services Committee advance the legislation from Rep. John Wills (R) in a voice vote on Thursday. The panel adopted an amendment from Sen. Dennis Guth (R) to…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will soon be launching a pilot program that would cover the costs of CBD products for eligible patients under certain federal health insurance plans. But newly reported details about the effort signal that it policy could conflict with a separate law redefining hemp in a way that…
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Virginia lawmakers passed several marijuana-related bills in the legislative session that ended last weekend, and now Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) is set to decide what to do with them. Those include measures to legalize recreational cannabis sales, provide resentencing relief for people with past convictions, protect the parental rights of consumers, allow patients to access…
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Alcohol and tobacco cause far more harms to people who consume them, and to society overall, than marijuana does, according to a new government-funded study. A panel of 20 experts with professional experience with substance use issues from across Canada were asked to evaluate 16 different drugs on 10 dimensions of harm to consumers, as…
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Marijuana businesses would be able to list on national stock exchanges such as Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under a bipartisan congressional bill filed on Wednesday that would also more broadly shield companies from being punished for providing financial, accounting, insurance, advertising or other services to the cannabis industry. Reps. Guy Reschenthaler…
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Provisions take effect tomorrow (Friday, March 20th) rolling back various aspects of the state’s voter-approved adult-use marijuana legalization law. The provisions, included in Senate Bill 56, criminalize adults who possess marijuana products obtained from out-of-state sources, including products legally purchased at licensed dispensaries in neighboring jurisdictions. They also repeal statutes protecting adult-use consumers from facing either workplace or…
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Colorado lawmakers have rejected a bill that would put a measure on the state’s November ballot asking voters to increase marijuana and alcohol taxes to support mental health treatment. In line with a recommendation from the bicameral Capital Development Committee (CDC) last week, members of the House Health and Human Services Committee on Wednesday defeated…
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Sara Carter, the former investigative journalist and Fox News contributor now serving as White House drug czar, has spent her early months emphasizing fentanyl, trafficking and addiction, not marijuana reform. Cannabis may still move through federal channels, but it is clearly not the part of drug policy this White House wants to lead with. If…
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“Marijuana will be re-criminalized in Ohio, businesses will close, workers will lose their jobs, and consumers will be denied their right to products they should be able to purchase.” By Megan Henry, Ohio Capital Journal Opponents of Ohio Republican lawmakers’ attempt to ban intoxicating hemp products and change the state’s voter-passed recreational marijuana law failed…
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