Medical Marijuana News

Organizers behind South Dakota’s highly successful medical cannabis legalization initiative are now seeking to compromise with state lawmakers who want to delay the program for at least a year.

Tennessee lawmakers are considering legislation for a new medical cannabis commission that would analyze appropriate steps for enacting cannabis reforms in the state.

New Jersey regulators can resume their review of medical cannabis license applications under a recent appellate court ruling. The licensing process has been delayed for more than a year due to lawsuits.

The Budz Lounge in Wagoner, Oklahoma opened its doors as a warming station and shelter for the town’s homeless population, who had nowhere else to turn amid a dangerous winter storm.

In Delaware, the state just doubled its medical cannabis access points with three new business licenses and the state auditor threw her weight behind adult-use reforms.

A recent poll found that 54% of North Carolina residents support legalizing cannabis for adult use and 73% support legalizing cannabis for medicinal purposes.

As Mississippi awaits a Supreme Court decision on its medical cannabis legalization amendment, state Sen. Kevin Blackwell (R) has proposed a separate bill to legalize the medicinal use of cannabis.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is further impeding the will of voters after calling for delaying implementation of the state’s voter-approved medical cannabis law by one year.

Ohio medical cannabis sales quadrupled during the pandemic last year but, by the numbers, the state’s total is still far from what was anticipated given the state’s population of over 11 million people.

New Mexico officials may revoke the license of New Mexicann Natural Medicine after a fire from a botched extraction process seriously injured two workers last October.

A Minnesota state Rep. has proposed reclassifying medical cannabis as a Schedule 2 substance so patients would be able to legally keep their firearms under federal law.

A bill to legalize medical cannabis in Alabama has advanced from the state’s Senate Judiciary Committee.

Kansas Gov. Kelly Chambers (D) has proposed adopting medical cannabis legalization in the state and using funds from the program to pay for expansions to Medicaid.

The Society of Cannabis Clinicians is set to release new medical cannabis training curriculum for medical professionals on February 8.

A judge has ruled in favor of New Mexico medical cannabis businesses who sued the state over its burdensome product safety and testing protocols.

Lawmakers in Idaho are set to consider a bipartisan bill to legalize medical cannabis even after a proposal to constitutionally ban all psychoactive drugs (including cannabis) was advanced from the Senate State Affairs Committee.

According to the Leaflink 2020 Wholesale Cannabis Pricing Guide, wholesale flower prices increased 18% nationwide last year while edibles/ingestibles saw an 11% price decrease.

Rhode Island lawmakers will consider letting veterinarians certify domestic pets for medical cannabis access. Qualifying conditions for pets would include “any condition … that would be a ‘debilitating medical condition’ if it were suffered by a person.”

A recent survey of 525 chronic pain patients found that 40.4% of respondents had replaced their opioid-based medications with medical cannabis.

A rule allowing Utah medical cannabis patients to acquire products from out-of-state markets has expired, leaving some patients in limbo without easy access to their medicine.

A study has demonstrated CBD could be used to kill Gram-negative bacteria, which is responsible for certain drug-resistant diseases such as gonorrhea and meningitis.

The Compassionate Care Act in South Carolina, which aims to legalize medical cannabis in the state, has garnered new support from several powerful state Senators this year.

In the company’s first move into the Florida marketplace, Cresco Labs is set to acquire Bluma Wellness Inc. in an all-share deal that values Bluma at $213 million.

Medical cannabis industry workers in Maryland will be eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine under a recent Medical Cannabis Commission directive.