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A recent BDSA report found that global cannabis sales reached nearly $21.3 billion last year.

A recent poll found that 60 percent of Texans are ready to legalize cannabis “for any use.”

Researchers at the Imperial College London say that any psychological benefits of microdosing LSD — which are frequently described, at least anecdotally — are likely caused by the placebo effect.

A recent survey of potential American home buyers found that just 46 percent of respondents would be willing to buy a house within one mile of a cannabis dispensary.

The NAACP’s New Jersey chapter said the state’s Cannabis Regulatory Commission breaks the law because it does not meet its own social equity requirements.

Washington state law enforcement agencies are releasing responses including guidance and pushback to the state’s Supreme Court ruling last week that effectively decriminalized all drug possession.

The Holyoke Community College Cannabis Education Center in Massachusetts is offering student scholarships for its core cannabis training program, which runs March 20-21.

Gov. Daniel McKee, Rhode Island’s new governor following the confirmation of Gina Raimondo as President Biden’s Commerce Secretary, reportedly said in January that it’s time to legalize cannabis.

Rhode Island regulators are seeking a 3rd-party lottery administrator to help select the winners for six new medical cannabis dispensary licenses.

UPS announced it will stop shipping vape products starting April 5, the result of federal regulations from the omnibus spending bill approved and signed last year.

A bill being considered in California would prohibit most employers from denying or terminating an employee due to a positive drug test for cannabis.

Seth Rogen said this week his cannabis company, Houseplant, is set for its U.S. launch this month. The products will be available in California through a Houseplant delivery service starting March 11 and in select dispensaries later in the month.

California nonprofit Battle Brothers Foundation has been approved to launch an observational study covering the use of medical cannabis to help treat PTSD in veterans.

Virginia is set to become the first Southern state to legalize after lawmakers advanced legislation to undo cannabis prohibition starting in 2024.

A new report found that sales of cannabis products marketed for sleep have skyrocketed 635% since the start of the pandemic.

Lawmakers in New Mexico’s House of Representatives voted to legalize adult-use cannabis last week, setting the state up for another legalization showdown in the Senate after a similar attempt failed there in 2019.

Rowan University in New Jersey launched a cannabis institute to assist lawmakers, healthcare professionals, businesses, and more on cannabis and cannabis policy.

Washington state’s Supreme Court essentially decriminalized drug possession yesterday after declaring the state’s felony drug possession law to be unconstitutional.

IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said during a recent House subcommittee hearing that the agency would prefer if cannabis industry tax payments were not paid in cash.

Lawmakers in Morocco are set to legalize the production and use of medical cannabis products as soon as next week.

A Missouri lawmaker has proposed expanding the state’s Right to Try law to include psychedelic substances such as psilocybin, MDMA, LSD, mescaline, ibogaine, and DMT.

An influential Democrat from Kentucky is accused of unethical stock purchases after buying up multiple cannabis stocks prior to endorsing the MORE Act, which was passed by the House in December.

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal has instructed prosecutors to dismiss any pending cannabis-related charges that would no longer be illegal under the state’s new legalization law.

In a bipartisan move, Virginia lawmakers have voted overwhelmingly in favor of allowing flower products in the state’s medical cannabis program.