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  • Louisiana’s Medical Cannabis Program Finally Goes Live

    Aug 5, 2019, 3:50 am By Jennifer Doherty
    Technically, medical cannabis has been legal in Louisiana since 1978, when Governor Edwin Edwards signed a bill allowing doctors to “prescribe” it to chemotherapy patients. But it took the daughter of a sheriff, advocating on behalf of patients like…
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  • El Salvador Inches Toward Legal Medical Cannabis

    Aug 2, 2019, 6:50 am By Julia Barajas
    El Salvador seems to be tiptoeing toward legalizing medical cannabis, cautiously and without any hint it could go further.  In mid-July, a Salvadoran lawmaker introduced a bill to legalize cannabis for medical use, as well as legalizing domestic production…
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  • Canopy Growth’s Expanding Lobbying Footprint in the United States

    Aug 1, 2019, 6:50 am By Nikitha Sattiraju, Alyson Martin
    The Canadian cannabis company Canopy Growth, one of the largest in the world, has also been lobbying in Pennsylvania and  Illinois since spring 2019.  Cannabis Wire reported last week that the company is expanding its lobbying efforts in the United States.…
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  • St. Kitts and Nevis Takes a Big Step Toward Cannabis Reform

    Jul 31, 2019, 6:50 am By Julia Barajas
    On Tuesday, the prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, the dual-island nation in the Caribbean, brought his country a step closer to regulating the use of cannabis for medical, religious, and “recreational” purposes.  The prime minister, Timothy Harris,…
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  • Canopy Growth Unveils New York Hemp Industrial Park

    Jul 30, 2019, 6:50 am By Nikitha Sattiraju
    The departure of Canopy Growth’s founder, Bruce Linton, earlier this month seems to have had no effect on the company’s expansion plans from Canada to the United States. Canopy, one of the world’s largest cannabis companies, is still planning to plant…
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  • Q&A: David Bronner’s New Certification System Aimed at California’s Small Farmers Goes Beyond Organics

    Jul 29, 2019, 6:50 am By Nikitha Sattiraju
    Brother David’s, a not-for-profit cannabis company that launched in April, is trying to set high standards for cannabis cultivation in California—and the country—and invest in small family farmers at the same time, by using and backing a new…
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  • Hemp: Regulators Pledge to Untangle the Rules

    Jul 26, 2019, 6:50 am By Nikitha Sattiraju
    The 2018 Farm Bill swung open the doors for the US hemp industry, but left something of a fog when it comes to federal rules and regulations about its cultivation, production, marketing, and legal uses. On Thursday, the three major regulatory agencies promised…
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  • California: Almost-Organic Cannabis is Coming

    Jul 25, 2019, 6:50 am By Julia Barajas
    On Wednesday, California regulators and cannabis growers came together to flesh out the state’s “comparable-to-organic” cannabis program, slated to start in January 2021. Because cannabis remains federally illegal, it can’t be certified as organic at…
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  • Cannabis and Banking: An Unprecedented Senate Hearing

    Jul 24, 2019, 6:50 am By Julia Barajas
    Public safety and the problems of doing business in cash took center stage on Tuesday during an unprecedented US Senate committee hearing that could be a major step in solving one of the cannabis industry’s biggest headaches: banking. The Senate Committee on…
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  • Who’s Now Lobbying on the SAFE Banking Act? Familiar Names and Some New Ones

    Jul 23, 2019, 6:50 am By Nikitha Sattiraju
    The Republican-controlled US Senate will host a hearing on cannabis banking today. The hearing, titled “Challenges for Cannabis and Banking: Outside Perspectives,” is both unexpected and unprecedented. Legalization supporters Senators Cory Gardner and Jeff…
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  • Canopy Growth Has Begun Lobbying in the US. What Is the Company up to in New York?

    Jul 22, 2019, 6:50 am By Nikitha Sattiraju
    Canopy Growth, a Canadian cannabis company and one of the world’s largest, is expanding its lobbying efforts in the United States.  Cannabis Wire first reported the company’s US lobbying efforts last week, noting that California-based firm Platinum…
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  • Q&A: What Does Silicon Valley’s PAX Have Planned in Canada?

    6:50am By Nushin Rashidian
    PAX, the Silicon Valley-based company behind perhaps the most well-known cannabis vape brand in the US, is moving quickly in Canada. The company had an IPO in April that valued it just below $2 billion. Then just two months later, in June—the same month that…
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  • Q&A: Is the New Mexico VA Hobbling Cannabis Research?

    Thu 6:50am By Nikitha Sattiraju
    Does cannabis have some potential to help veterans with PTSD? It’s an open and scientifically intriguing question, one that would seem to be worth multiple studies.  But, last year the New Mexico VA, a state branch of the US Department of Veterans Affairs,…
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  • Colorado Steams Ahead On Outside Cannabis Investment

    Jul 17, 2019, 6:50 am By Julia Barajas
    Colorado cannabis companies are about to become a lot more competitive.  Colorado licensees, attorneys, accountants, and regulators gathered on Monday for the second of two work group meetings devoted to provisions surrounding House Bill 19-1090, a measure…
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  • The New Charge to Legalize Cannabis in Arizona

    Jul 16, 2019, 6:50 am By Stephen Paulsen
    A group of some of the largest cannabis companies in the country are leading a push to bring adult use cannabis to the Copper State. The new campaign has more than $700,000 so far, with almost all of it coming from Harvest Health & Recreation, Curaleaf, and…
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  • Here’s What People Want the FDA to Know About CBD

    Jul 15, 2019, 6:50 am By Alyson Martin
    Over the past several months, the US Food and Drug Administration has been tasked with making a series of decisions about how cannabidiol (CBD) products can be produced, sold, and consumed. In the meantime, without formal rules in place, CBD products are…
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  • What’s Next For New Jersey’s Expanded Medical Cannabis Program

    Jul 12, 2019, 6:50 am By Nikitha Sattiraju
    Medical cannabis will now be more accessible to patients in New Jersey.  After many delays and a long battle with legislators, Governor Phil Murphy signed the “Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Cannabis Act” on July 2, considerably expanding the…
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  • The Racial Justice Case for Legalizing Cannabis Gets a Congressional Hearing

    Jul 11, 2019, 6:50 am By Nikitha Sattiraju
    A House subcommittee hosted a significant hearing Wednesday to discuss why cannabis prohibition should end in America, focusing on racial justice. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security hearing, titled “Marijuana Laws in…
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  • California Cannabis Charter Bank Bill Gains Traction

    Jul 10, 2019, 6:50 am By Julia Barajas
    On Tuesday, the California State Assembly’s Committee on Business and Professions approved a bill that seeks to establish limited charter banks and credit unions for cannabis-related businesses. In its analysis of the measure, the Committee pointed to a…
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  • California’s Cannabis Party Bus Bill Inches Forward

    Jul 9, 2019, 6:50 am By Julia Barajas
    On Monday, members of the California State Assembly’s Transportation Committee weighed in on Senate Bill 625, which seeks to bar passengers from smoking or vaping cannabis products in vehicles like buses, taxicabs, and limousines, with a “limited…
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