medical cannabis

“We will likely be opening an application opportunity for our production licensees, and that means more access for patients.” By Alander Rocha, Georgia Recorder The Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission approved a new dispensing license Wednesday, bringing the statewide total to 19, following a major patient enrollment threshold that triggered expansion under state law.…

Roger Stone, a longtime advisor to President Donald Trump, is joining the chorus of voices criticizing the passage of a spending bill with a ban on hemp products containing THC, calling the move a “cheap cop-out.” After Trump signed the broader appropriations legislation into law on Wednesday, Stone published a blog post slamming the abrupt…

The Democratic governor of Kentucky says the hemp industry is an “important” part of the economy that deserves to be regulated at the state level—rather than federally prohibited, as Congress has moved to do under a spending bill President Donald Trump signed on Wednesday. During a press briefing on Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear (D) was…

A Democratic senator says GOP leadership’s decision to omit from a key spending bill a provision that would have increased military veterans’ access to medical marijuana in legal states is “just plain cruel.” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) filed an amendment to let U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) issue medical cannabis recommendations to their patients…

A leading veterans organization is warning congressional leaders that a newly approved blanket ban on consumable hemp products could inadvertently “slam the door shut” on critical research In a letter sent to House and Senate leaders on Wednesday, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW) executives stressed the importance of “supporting solid scientific…

Marijuana legalization did not make it into the Pennsylvania legislature’s final budget deal, despite the governor’s push for the reform. But several House and Senate lawmakers tell Marijuana Moment that they see a path forward to end criminalization in the fast-approaching 2026 session. While Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) said in August that he wouldn’t “concede”…