Graham Abbott

Organizers of San Francisco’s annual 4/20 gathering and celebration announced that this year’s event is canceled due to a lack of sponsorships and staffing support from the city.

New York cannabis regulators voted last week to approve 114 new cannabis industry licenses and waive the licensing fees for all conditional cannabis cultivators for the next two years.

California lawmakers may look to undo employment protections covering legal, off-duty cannabis use by law enforcement-related positions including police officers, dispatch, animal control, and coroners.

Michigan cannabis regulators say that a Lansing-based cannabis process that utilized unregulated THCa powder to create products that were sold in the legal market is permanently losing its license.

Tribal members of the Wisconsin-based Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association recently agreed to prioritize lobbying and campaigning efforts for the legalization of medical cannabis.

Nearly 72% of Canadian cannabis consumers said in a recent survey that they purchase their cannabis exclusively from legal sources, primarily citing concerns about the safety of unregulated products and the convenience of the legal market.

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York has ordered an extensive audit of the state’s cannabis regulations and the botched roll-out of the adult-use industry.

The Wyoming proposal to ban delta-8 THC and other synthetic hemp-derived cannabinoids was signed into law by Republican Gov. Mark Gordon last week.

Vice President Kamala Harris said last week that the Schedule I status of cannabis under federal drug laws is “absurd” and “patently unfair,” and urged the DEA to reschedule the plant under the Controlled Substances Act.

Hawaii House lawmakers in two key committees this week voted to advance — with amendments — the cannabis legalization bill that was passed earlier this month by the state Senate.

The Biden Administration has once again included a provision in its budget to block Washington D.C. from using funds to implement its voter-approved adult-use cannabis marketplace, continuing a nearly decade-long congressional intervention that has prevented the city from establishing a regulated cannabis industry despite local and national support for legalization.

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has announced her plan to pardon all state-issued misdemeanor cannabis possession convictions, a move aligned with national efforts to address past injustices of cannabis criminalization, which requires the Governor’s Council’s approval to take immediate effect.

As the Minnesota cannabis industry awaits a possible launch in 2025, officials have warned hemp product retailers that inspectors will begin examining their hemp flower products to make sure they do not exceed the 0.3% delta-9 THC potency limits.

Lawmakers in the Hawaii Senate voted decisively to legalize adult-use cannabis on Tuesday but the proposal faces an uncertain future in the House, which rejected a legalization proposal last year.