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Mar 12
CRA Education Session: Cannabis Programs and the Great Lakes Cannabis Collaboration Conference with Northern Michigan University (NMU)

The Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA) is announcing the date, time, and location for its next education session featuring Alexander Wilson, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Co-Director of the Medicinal Plant Chemistry Program at NMU. Date: Thursday, March 13, 2025 Time: 10:00 AM Eastern Time Place: Zoom Webinar Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82010769599?pwd=YvPoLBVyPKs7QObiJqPY61eihAteOF.1 Passcode: 634832 Telephone: USA 215 446 3656 US Toll USA 888 […]

Mar 12
US Hemp Roundtable: Bill Updates in Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Ohio and Texas

We have 6 states to report on this week: Georgia’s SB 254: This bill would impose extreme THC limits, ban hemp beverages, and severely restrict product availability. Kentucky’s SB 202: While it the ban on hemp beverages has been removed, it still weakens industry-backed quality regulations from the Department of Health and Family Services. Missouri’s Legislative Activity: […]

Mar 12
Podcast Australia: Health minister defends QLD pill testing site closures

The new Queensland government has made it’s stance on drug policy clear – ‘there is no safe way to take drugs’. But there’s a fear a recent detection of a deadly opioid nitazene in Queensland could harm more people if these clinics are shut down. GUEST: Tim Nicholls, Queensland Health Minister PRODUCER: Brooke Young   From his […]

Mar 12
CIAO (Cannabis Industry Alliance of Oregon) Called Extraordinary Meeting This Week To Discuss Issue Of Recent Rise Of Crime Against Diispensaries In Portland

I highlight this because as the economy gets worse in the US it looks like cannabis dispenasries will be on the frontline perceived as easy targets   I wanted to personally invite you to our Special CIAO Cannabis Insiders Meeting TONIGHT—open to all Portland Metro Area cannabis licensees and anyone affected by crime in our industry. (Membership is […]

Mar 12
Appellate Court Paves Way for Launch of Alabama Medical Cannabis Program: Watch What Happens Now

It takes a big person to admit when they are wrong. But I’ll raise my hand and say I was wrong when I predicted that the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals would rule in favor of the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission in late March or early April. That prediction was at least two weeks early, […]

Mar 12
Festival goers have reported an overall positive experience at the first government-led pill testing trial in Australia at Yours and Owls Festival. Reports ABC Australia

Festival goers have reported an overall positive experience at the first government-led pill testing trial in Australia at Yours and Owls Festival. NSW Health Minister Ryan Park said the pilot was a success. “To see it happen and taking place on an iconic festival that is Yours and Owls over the course of the weekend […]

Mar 12
California: Superior Court Judge Thomas Anderle ruled Wednesday  neighbors within a one-mile radius of Valley Crest Farms, can collectively seek damages for the pervasive smell of cannabis invading their properties.

The Santa Barbara Independent In a case that could have broad implications for commercial cannabis growers, Superior Court Judge Thomas Anderle ruled on Wednesday that the neighbors within a one-mile radius of Valley Crest Farms, a cannabis greenhouse operation in the Carpinteria Valley, can collectively seek damages for the pervasive smell of pot invading their […]

Mar 12
SF Gate Article: Newsom quietly moves to extend his polarizing ban on hemp THC in California

Hemp products like THC seltzers will likely remain illegal in California through the spring after Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration quietly moved to extend his emergency ban on hemp last week. Hemp THC products have swept the country since 2018, when Congress legalized the intoxicating drugs made out of a variety of cannabis plants. They’re sold online and at liquor […]

Mar 12
California extends emergency intoxicating hemp ban

The rules specify that hemp products can have “no detectable amount of total THC.” The post California extends emergency intoxicating hemp ban appeared first on Green Market Report.

Mar 11
Florida judge dismisses Trulieve’s legalization defamation lawsuit

A Florida judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Trulieve Cannabis against the state Republican Party during the company’s failed push to legalize adult-use marijuana in the Sunshine State. Florida judge dismisses Trulieve’s legalization defamation lawsuit is a post from: MJBizDaily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs