The agency has quietly sent a CBD compliance and enforcement policy to the White House for review, a move that could bring long-overdue standards to a chaotic market while opening the door to a new layer of federal control. The FDA has finally made a real move on CBD. On March 13, 2026, the agency…
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Image courtesy of Flowhub Licensed cannabis retailers are in strict compliance with their state’s minimum age requirements and nearly always deny access to underage patrons. That’s according to compliance check data provided by regulators in California, Colorado, Washington, and several other states. For example, data recently provided by Washington’s Liquor Control and Cannabis Board (LCB)…
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More Americans say using marijuana is morally acceptable—or not a moral issue at all—than those who say the same about gambling, watching pornography, having an abortion, being gay and more, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center. The survey also shows that people with lower levels of education are more likely to…
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“Our investigation found instances of licenses that were awarded to individuals who very clearly, through review of agreements and interviews, were not owning and operating the license.” By Rebecca Rivas, Missouri Independent Missouri lawmakers signed off on proposed cannabis rules Thursday meant to curb abuse in the state’s microbusiness licensing program, but not before stripping out a…
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A Pennsylvania Senate committee has amended a cannabis regulation bill that members previously approved to add new provisions banning the sale of most hemp THC products to align state law with a pending federal policy change that’s set to take effect in November. As efforts to legalize adult-use marijuana continue to stall in the Keystone…
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Virginia is on the verge of sweeping changes to its marijuana laws. Lawmakers sent ten cannabis-related bills to the desk of Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger for her review. Adult-Use Retail Sales Legislation (Senate Bill 542 and House Bill 642) to legalize and regulate the retail sale of cannabis to adults 21 and older, patroned by…
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What do you give someone who already has everything? That’s the question Distinctive Assets, the company responsible for gifting Oscar nominees, must have asked itself every year for the past 24 years. And yesterday, at the 98th Academy Awards ceremony, the answer appears to have been a rather redundant “everything”: a medley of luxury items,…
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has submitted a proposed cannabis products enforcement policy to the White House for review that concerns regulatory issues specifically related to CBD. The White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) posted a notice that it received the submission from FDA, which…
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The governor of New Mexico has signed a budget bill that provides nearly $800,000 in funding to support the state’s therapeutic psilocybin research efforts, including financial assistance to help low-income residents access treatment with the psychedelic. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) gave final approval to the budget legislation on Wednesday that stipulates that $150,000 will…
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Legalizing marijuana for adult use is linked to gradual reductions in violent crime—while medical cannabis legalization is associated with lower rates of property crime—according to a new study. As more states move to enact legalization, researchers at Jack Welch College of Business and Technology, Barnard College, National Chengchi University and Longwood University set out to…
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