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Tulsa Community College now offers three, eight-week cannabis education programs centered around certificates for dispensary associates, cultivation technicians, and manufacturing agents.

Oklahoma’s medical cannabis dispensaries will have 90 days to implement the state’s new seed-to-sale tracking program and will get 180 days to sell or dispose of any product that has not been tagged.

A cannabis testing lab in Arizona was fined $468,000 in civil penalties following repeated violations of state rules and regulations.

The California Senate is considering a bill to allow cannabis sales between states that have also approved such reforms.

Vermont retail cannabis sales were approved by voters in a majority of the state’s municipalities.

42% of hemp crops in Tennessee have tested over the USDA’s .03% THC limit and regulations say the “hot” crops must be destroyed.

The Maryland House of Delegates passed a bill that would leave adult-use cannabis legalization up to voters in an upcoming election and reverse cannabis-related convictions.

Washington lawmakers are considering bills to both make illegal and regulate synthetic THC sales, including delta-8 THC.

The cost of cannabis products has dropped over the past year due to impacts from the coronavirus pandemic and supply chain issues, according to cannabis analytics firm Headset.

Arizona’s community colleges received more than $31 million from cannabis-derived taxes last year.

The director of constituent services for Atlantic City, New Jersey asked the state’s Cannabis Regulatory Commission to consider large-scale consumption lounges within the city.

A California proposal is seeking to suspend the state’s cannabis cultivation tax and increase its retail excise tax to cover the resulting dip in state revenues.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) recently indicated that adult-use cannabis sales could launch in the state within the next few weeks.

A recent New Mexico Supreme Court ruling confirmed that medical cannabis purchases in the state cannot be taxed.

Ganjapreneur is excited to launch our new series “Cannabias,” in which resident journalist TG Branfalt draws on his academic experience in the world of media analysis to highlight and dissect examples of bias against cannabis in the mainstream news, providing solutions for how to “fix” each story.

The Florida Health Department is seeking to suspend a physician’s medical license after an investigation found he had violated state law when issuing medical cannabis cards.

Oregon lawmakers are considering a proposal to let certain counties that border states where cannabis remains outlawed increase the local cannabis tax rate from 3% to no more than 10%. Only Malheur County, next to Idaho, would qualify.

MedMen has moved to withdraw its lawsuit alleging that Ascend Wellness improperly influenced New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to approve a takeover deal between the two companies.

According to the USDA’s National Hemp Report, U.S. farmers planted 54,200 acres of hemp in 2021, valued at $712 million.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed a bill into law creating conditional adult-use licenses for current hemp cultivators in the state.

Veriheal has acquired MarijuanaDoctors.com for $3 million, giving the company the largest network of physicians in the medical cannabis space.

Colombia’s President Ivan Duque approved a measure to regulate medical cannabis and industrial hemp products in the country.

South Dakota law enforcement officials are arresting medical cannabis cardholders issued by the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe, arguing that the cards are invalid for non-tribal members.

Advocates in Denton, Texas have launched a signature-gathering campaign with the goal of ending citations and arrests for misdemeanor cannabis possession.