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Michigan Lawmakers Weigh Bill To Create Statewide Cannabis Reference Lab

The facility “will allow us to go in and audit the test results of the private labs.” By Katherine Dailey, Michigan Advance In an attempt to ensure tighter safety controls on Michigan’s cannabis industry, Rep. Mike Mueller (R-Linden) presented a bill to the Michigan House Rules Committee Thursday that would establish a statewide cannabis reference…

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Montana Retailers Have Sold More Than $1 Billion Worth Of

Over the four year period, the state has collected $217 million in cannabis tax revenue. By Jacob Olness, Montana Free Press In the four years since Montana began allowing the legal sale of adult-use marijuana on January 1, 2022, the state’s retailers have sold more than $1 billion in product as adult-use sales rise more…

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Indiana Lawmakers Approve Bill To Restrict And Regulate Hemp THC

“We’d just like, in Indiana, some certainty as to these products so that the people manufacturing and selling them know kind of what our laws are.” By Leslie Bonilla Muñiz, Indiana Capital Chronicle Indiana lawmakers seek to align state law with a recently enacted federal ban on intoxicating and synthetic hemp products—over opposition from the…

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GOP senators try to stop Trump’s cannabis rescheduling (Newsletter: January

House votes to keep blocking DC marijuana sales; Key congressional committee chair: Delay hemp ban; VA cannabis sales bill filed Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… Hold on,…

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Senate Sends Trump Bill That Would Continue Protecting Medical Marijuana

The Senate has given final approval to a spending bill that would continue protecting state medical marijuana programs from federal intervention—while excluding a provision that previously advanced to block the Justice Department from rescheduling cannabis. About a week after the appropriations legislation was negotiated on a bicameral basis and advanced through the House, the opposite…

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Trump’s Marijuana Rescheduling Move Could Boost South Carolina Medical Cannabis

If the Department of Justice finishes the process of rescheduling marijuana as recently directed by President Donald Trump, the federal change could boost efforts to legalize medical cannabis at the state level in South Carolina, according to a GOP lawmaker. “I do think that there is going to be a change in mentality among some…

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Home Cultivation Of Marijuana Would Be Legalized In New Jersey

New Jersey lawmakers have filed two new bills that would legalize home cultivation of marijuana in the so-called “Garden State.” One of the measures would allow only medical cannabis patients to cultivate the plant, while the other would cover recreational consumers as well. Both pieces of legislation are led by Sens. Troy Singleton (D) and…

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Missouri Lawmakers Weigh Bills To Match New Federal Hemp Restrictions

“Now it’s time for us to ensure the safety of our kids, regardless of what Congress did or will be doing in the future.” By Rebecca Rivas, Missouri Independent Missouri lawmakers debated two bills this week that would align the state with the federal limits on intoxicating hemp products set to go into effect in November. Both…

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Bipartisan Senators Push To Delay Federal Hemp THC Product Ban

A bipartisan group of senators is pushing to give the hemp industry two more years before a federal ban on THC products would take effect, which stakeholders hope will better position them to negotiate a broader compromise with lawmakers. After President Donald Trump signed a spending bill last year with provisions that would wipe out a…

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2026: The Year of the Great Cannabis Battles

Since 2012, when Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize recreational cannabis, the trajectory seemed clear: forward. State after state, the dominoes fell. Public support grew. The industry flourished. Medical patients found relief. Tax revenues poured in. The sky didn’t fall. It felt inevitable that cannabis prohibition’s days were numbered. But something changed…

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