California senators have advanced an Assembly-passed bill that would allow regulators to issue a new license allowing small marijuana growers to sell their products directly to consumers at state-organized farmers markets and other temporary events. The legislation from Assemblymember Gail Pellerin (D) was unanimously approved in the Senate Appropriations Committee in a 4-0 vote on  ​ 

      Delaware officials are now officially accepting applications for the state’s first adult-use marijuana business licenses, weeks ahead of schedule. In fact, Friday’s launch comes days in advance of an already-shortened timeline that regulators had put forward earlier this month. The Office of the Marijuana Commissioner (OMC) announced that it is taking applications for recreational cannabis  ​ 

      Medical marijuana legalization has officially taken effect in Ukraine as of Friday. About six months after President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the medical cannabis legislation into law, the policy change is now being implemented. The president and other officials have said access to medical cannabis can help soldiers address physical and mental wounds incurred during the  ​ 

      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  ​