A California plan to usher in sweeping changes to the state’s marijuana and hemp markets appears dead for the session after a Senate committee did not call the bill for a vote Thursday ahead of an end-of-week deadline. Under a recently proposed amendment from Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), the measure would have folded hemp-derived cannabinoid  ​ 

      “People don’t want to go outside and smell it. They don’t want to see it in public places.” By Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has publicly stated that one of the main reasons why Floridians should reject a measure legalizing recreational cannabis for adults in November is that the smell of people  ​ 

      Legalizing marijuana for adults does not appear to be a contributor to what authors of a newly published study call the “substantial increases” in Schedule II stimulant use across the country in recent years. In fact, there’s even a possibility that cannabis legalization reduces stimulant use through a substitution effect, the paper says. Researchers said  ​ 

      The Civil Service Commission has now told the city to rehire three of the five officers it fired, but the city has not done so. By Sophie Nieto-Munoz, New Jersey Monitor Jersey City lost another round in its fight to bar cops from using cannabis after the state Civil Service Commission overturned the termination of a third  ​ 

      Local lawmakers in Dallas, Texas have now formally put a marijuana decriminalization initiative on the city’s November ballot—positioning voters to enact the reform in the state’s third largest city by population over the objections of the police chief. About a month after officials certified that activists with Ground Game Texas had turned in enough valid  ​ 

      Over a dozen members of Congress are putting pressure on the Biden administration to secure the release of a U.S. citizen incarcerated in Russia over possession of medical marijuana he lawfully obtained in Pennsylvania—with bipartisan lawmakers, including those who generally oppose cannabis reform, emphasizing that access to marijuana is “necessary to subdue his pain.” About  ​