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New Hampshire House lawmakers have passed the body’s second cannabis legalization proposal of the session. The bill, however, contains fewer allowances than the proposal passed earlier this year, leaving cannabis retail and home grows out entirely.

The U.S. Sentencing Commission reported that the number of federal charges for cannabis trafficking has hit an all-time low, down 93% since 2012.

For the second legislative session in a row, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) has vetoed a proposal to implement a regulated, adult-use cannabis industry in the state.

Total cannabis sales in Ohio have now surpassed $2.5 billion, with recent sales driven largely by the launch of the state’s adult-use cannabis industry last year.

The California state Supreme Court has de-published a prior ruling that said cannabis was illegal in the state due to federal law, meaning it can no longer be used as a legal precedent for other cases.

Washington state cannabis regulators have issued a sweeping recall of more than 500 batches of vape products manufactured by Northwest Cannabis Solutions, one of the state’s largest cannabis processors.

The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals has voided four more temporary restraining orders on the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission concerning its medical cannabis licensing actions.

France has taken a key step toward legalizing medical cannabis by formally notifying the European Commission of its plans to legalize and regulate the practice.

The Department of Government Efficiency, established by President Donald Trump and led by Elon Musk, has canceled a nearly $700,000 federal research grant to study cannabis use by LGBTQ+ women.

The Texas Senate has passed a bill to ban products in the state that contain any amount of THC, including hemp-derived products that are legal under federal law.

In a recent poll of Utah residents, 52% of respondents said they would vote for a citizen-led cannabis legalization initiative.

A recent secret shopper program by New Jersey-based Safe Leaf Society found through lab testing that 28% of the cannabis pre-rolls in the state exceeded regulatory microbial limits.

37-year-old Ma Yang, a Hmong American woman who has lived in Wisconsin since she was 8 months old, was deported to Laos last week due to filing a guilty plea in 2020 for her role in a federal cannabis trafficking case.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against the former CFO of Acreage Holdings for allegedly lying to Acreage’s auditor and falsifying the company’s accounting records.

Democratic lawmakers in North Carolina filed a proposal to legalize the possession, cultivation, buying, and selling of cannabis by adults aged 21+.

The state of Wyoming has agreed to pay a $150,000 settlement over an erroneous 2019 raid on a hemp farm suspected of growing illegal cannabis plants.

A recent study released by AAA found nearly 85% of cannabis consumers drive on the same day they consume cannabis.

Twenty-six cannabis companies spent over $1.6 million on lobbying for cannabis reforms in Pennsylvania last year, with over $800,000 coming from multi-state operators.

Missouri lawmakers in the House General Laws Committee blocked a bill for the second time this month seeking to regulate THC-infused hemp products.

The U.S. Department of Energy is funding a $5 million study into the agricultural benefits of hemp cultivation and biochar, a charcoal mixture similar to planting soil.

The website for submitting cannabis business license applications to the Minnesota Office of Cannabis Management was unexpectedly shut down just a few short hours before the application window’s scheduled finish.

A proposal filed in the Nevada Assembly would establish a psychedelics therapy program for certain patients with mental health conditions.

The Massachusetts cannabis control is asking the state for $30.8 million in funding for fiscal year 2026, a 55% bump from the agency’s current annual budget of $19.8 million.

State officials in Ohio are withholding more than $10 million in adult-use cannabis tax revenue that was, according to the voter-approved legalization law, supposed to be earmarked for local governments that opted to allow cannabis businesses.