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The cannabis-focused venture capital firm Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies — which is backed by Casa Verde, the venture capital firm partially owned by Snoop Dogg — started trading today on the London Stock Exchange.

A Senate bill is seeking to finally regulate the production and sales of hemp-derived CBD products including infused foods, beverages, and dietary supplements.

A Missouri appeals court ruled that medical cannabis regulators in the state cannot keep secret the industry’s business license applications.

A recent Connecticut poll found that 64% of residents support legalizing adult-use cannabis in the state, with about 29% opposed and 7% unsure.

Colleges in the South are launching cannabis/hemp research programs and partnering with southern cannabis cultivators to grow legal, medicinal cannabis.

A Colorado bill is seeking to reduce the amount of concentrates that medical cannabis patients ages 18-20 can purchase in an effort to prevent the diversion of such products to Colorado’s youth.

Two people were indicted by the Department of Justice last week for their involvement in a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme involving fake cattle trades and a Colorado cannabis business.

Minnesota’s legislature approved a bill to allow smokable cannabis products in the state’s medical cannabis program.

Lawmakers in Louisiana’s House rejected a measure to tax adult-use cannabis sales if and when the state passes the reforms, likely dooming the reforms for this year and the next.

Employees at three March and Ash dispensaries in the greater San Diego area voted last week to join United Food and Commercial Workers Local 135.

Alabama’s medical cannabis legalization bill was signed into law on Monday, making Alabama the 37th state to legalize cannabis access for qualified patients.

Slipknot co-founder Shawn “Clown” Crahan is launching a cannabis product line featuring six half-gram pre-rolls made from 75% indica flower and 25% Paradise Citrus bubble hash.

A recent study found that cannabis legalization leads to lower prices in a state’s unlicensed cannabis market and an increase in the prices of illicit drugs and illegally obtained pharmaceuticals.

Louisiana voters in GOP-controlled districts overwhelmingly support the legalization of adult-use cannabis, according to recent polling data.

The State Medical Board of Ohio approved three new conditions for the state’s medical cannabis qualifying conditions list: arthritis, chronic migraines, and complex regional pain syndrome.

The DEA informed some companies on Friday it was prepared to approve their cannabis research cultivation applications. The move will ultimately end the University of Mississippi’s decades-long monopoly on research-grade cannabis.

Colorado cannabis regulators have banned hemp-derived and synthetic forms of THC, including Delta-8 and Delta-10 THC, from being sold in licensed dispensaries.

Mississippi’s Supreme Court threw out the state’s medical cannabis initiative that was approved by 71% of voters last year due to the state’s outdated ballot initiative process.

Jasiel Correia, the former mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts, was convicted on Friday of extorting cannabis businesses and other crimes.

Republican co-chairs of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus unveiled a bill on Wednesday to federally legalize cannabis but which contains zero considerations for amending the wrongs of prohibition.

The Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld a life sentence that was issued under the state’s habitual offender law to Allen Russell in 2019 after he was found guilty of possessing over 30 grams of cannabis.

Lawmakers in the Minnesota House advanced the chamber’s cannabis legalization bill but Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka (R) said that the legislation is already “up in smoke” in the Senate.

The city of Denver is set to license new cannabis businesses for the first time since 2016 but new applicants must meet the city’s social equity requirements, and some neighborhoods will be excluded as they are already oversaturated with cannabis businesses.

Two former city officials for Calexico, California were sentenced to two years in federal prison for accepting bribes related to cannabis licensing.