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Colorado is holding auctions for several cannabis-themed license plates as a fundraiser to benefit the Colorado Disability Funding Committee; auctioned plates include SATIVA, GANJA, ISIT420, TEGRIDY, and more.

Actor Jaleel White — famous for portraying Steve Urkel in “Family Matters” — is launching a cannabis brand called ItsPurpl in partnership with 710 Labs that will feature variants of the strain Purple Urkle.

Steve Fox, the lead drafter of Colorado’s historic legalization initiative approved by voters in 2012, has died at age 53.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company will “absolutely” consider getting into the cannabis delivery business as soon as cannabis is federally legalized.

Colorado sold $167 million worth of cannabis products in February, which is $20 million less than January, but sales figures so far this year are still outpacing 2020.

Researchers at the University of Sydney’s Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics found via a meta-analysis of 80 separate studies that cannabis impairment lasts on average somewhere between 3 and 10 hours.

A federally-funded study has found that biofluid and traditional sobriety tests are unreliable at measuring cannabis impairment in drivers.

After the success of its online introductory cannabis horticulture class, the University of Connecticut is now offering non-degree online courses covering basic and advanced cannabis cultivation.

The upcoming cannabis-themed streaming channel Cannected is set for an April 20 soft launch through a range of streaming services including Apple TV and Roku.

A federal judge has halted Detroit’s cannabis licensing process due to a lawsuit challenging the local legacy licensing plan, which seeks to prioritize local Detroiters.

A key committee in Texas’ House has advanced a proposal containing expansions to the state’s limited medical cannabis program.

The Alabama House Judiciary Committee advanced the medical cannabis bill approved by the state Senate in February.

An investigation into whether California cannabis dispensaries sell to underage customers found 100% of the shops investigated to be fully compliant with age-verification ID checks.

The California Senate Public Safety Committee has advanced a psychedelics decriminalization measure.

Workers at the Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center in Portsmouth, Rhode Island have voted to join the UFCW Local 328.

The Cannabis Freedom Alliance launched this week to advocate for the federal legalization of cannabis; the organization was reportedly devised during a Zoom call last year between Snoop Dogg, Charles Koch, and criminal justice reform advocate Weldon Angelos.

The Connecticut Judiciary Committee approved the governor’s cannabis legalization proposal this week, moving it one step closer to a full floor vote.

Steadfast Labs in Hazel Park, Michigan is offering an annual $1,200 scholarship for students studying cannabis chemistry at Lake Superior University.

The Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a measure to ban Delta-8-THC and Delta-10-THC, which can both be derived from hemp.

Wisconsin is assigning notably fewer hemp cultivation permits this year compared to last.

South Carolina state Sen. Tom Davis (R) said he believes lawmakers will pass the medical cannabis proposal he sponsored this legislative session.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R) has reintroduced the Hemp Economic Mobilization Plan, his proposal to raise the federal THC limit for hemp products to 1 percent.

With cannabis now legal for adult use throughout New York, the NYPD told officers they can no longer arrest people for public cannabis consumption.

Jasiel Correia — the former mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts who was arrested after allegedly extorting cannabis companies — is reported to have served as a private consultant to a cannabis firm in the week before signing the company’s non-opposition letter and host agreement.