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New Mexico’s Senate Public Affairs Committee has passed an adult-use cannabis legalization bill in a slim and partisan 4-3 vote.

Eaze’s 2019 State of Cannabis Report saw an increase of Gen Z and Baby Boomer customers on the platform in addition to a decrease in vape sales, likely due to the vaping-associated pulmonary illness that emerged last year.

Some critics in Pasadena, California believe that local regulators violated their own rules when awarding six cannabis business licenses last year.

Activists in Chicago are pushing for the city to allow for cannabis “peddler’s permits,” which would enable cannabis sales in a similar manner to street food vendors.

Survey results suggest that cannabis use among Utah teenagers has relatively stabled out despite multiple neighboring legalized markets, including Colorado and Nevada.

An adult-use cannabis legalization bill has been introduced in Tennessee; the bill calls on lawmakers to create regulations but proposes a 12 percent tax earmarked for education and infrastructure.

President Donald Trump was secretly recorded in 2018 saying that cannabis use makes people “lose IQ points” during a discussion about Colorado’s legal market.

Colorado State University has received a $1.5 million donation from Panacea Life Sciences CEO Leslie Buttorff to fund cannabinoid research.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers are sparring over cannabis revenues and the governor’s plan to legalize as part of the state budget bill.

A ballot initiative to legalize medical cannabis in Mississippi has been approved for the state’s November ballot.

The CEO of MedMen went on Reddit Friday to answer questions from the general public. After about an hour, he ended the session, leaving numerous questions unanswered.

MedMen has proposed giving its vendors shares in the company instead of cash in an attempt to reduce overhead and conserve funds after its “restructuring” last year.

Security cameras captured a traveler who had just arrived at Chicago’s Midway Airport as they searched through and pocketed cannabis products from one of the airport’s cannabis amnesty boxes.

The Austin, Texas City Council has approved a resolution that blocks police from using city funds on lab tests for low-level cannabis possession cases, effectively decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of cannabis.

A data breach discovered in the cannabis point-of-sale system THSuite has reportedly leaked more than 85,000 files from dispensaries, including patient info, throughout the U.S.

A Vermont state lawmaker has pitched the decriminalization of three psychedelic substances — psilocybin, ayahuasca, and peyote — as well as kratom.

An on-site consumption plan by Illinois Supply and Provisions in Springfield, Illinois has been approved by the city council; it’s the first time in the state that on-site cannabis consumption was approved by a municipality.

Oklahoma’s Cherokee Nation has announced plans to study the potential ramifications of major cannabis and hemp policy reforms.

A bill to legalize industrial hemp is set for a hearing in the Idaho Senate Health and Welfare Committee; farmers would be able to begin growing hemp under the proposal this year if the bill is signed into law.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has again included legalization tax revenues in his official budget for the year; Cuomo did the same last year, although the state ultimately failed to adopt legalization reforms.

West Virginia Del. Sammi Brown has re-proposed legislation to decriminalize cannabis possession and legalize the home growing of cannabis by adults at least 21 years old.

A Washington bill with bipartisan support would cap the state’s adult-use cannabis concentrate products at just 10 percent THC, which would effectively kill the state’s concentrates market.

Dispensary robberies and burglaries in the greater Denver area reached a three-year high in 2019, according to police data.

Ohio’s medical cannabis market has come a long way since its launch last January but some numbers, including patient enrollment and operating dispensaries, are still lower than what was expected.