James Lankford

Congressional leaders intensified rhetoric on Wednesday over the impending government shutdown, with just two days remaining before federal funding expires at midnight on Friday. What Happened: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) declared that Democrats are unified behind a “clean...

Tuesday's news that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug blew the industry and sent cannabis stocks high in the sky. And, while the move was generally praised by the majority of industry experts some ...

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined the GOP effort to undermine the passage of a marijuana banking bill. One day after Wednesday's historic passage of the SAFE Banking Act, Grassley sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D) questioning his...

Congressman Dave Joyce (R-OH), a co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, is refining the so-called Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States (STATES) Act, a bill that would amend the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) to undo federal criminalization of those acting...

Maine's Congressional Delegation is calling on the Department of Justice to put an end to the presence of foreign-owned and unlawfully operated marijuana businesses statewide, reported WABI. In a letter sent on Wednesday, Congress members Jared Golden, Chellie Pingree and Sens. Angus S. King,...

Earlier this month, Oklahoma's Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (OBNDD) served search warrants at four cannabis businesses following an investigation that led to linking sex trafficking, prostitution and drug trafficking to cannabis farms statewide. As part of the search,...

Oklahoma's marijuana legalization initiative, State Question 820, would have allowed adults 21 and older to buy cannabis from licensed retailers for the state to regulate and tax sales, but voters didn't seem to want that last week. Over 61% of voters said no...

Oklahoma Gov. Puts Medical Marijuana Licensing Process On A Hold Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a measure last month that put the issuing of new medical marijuana grower, dispensary and processor licenses in the state on a two-year hold, reported KFOR. The moratorium will begin on August 1 of this year...

While the number of surveys showing pro-legalization sentiment among Republicans is on the rise, some GOP lawmakers are not only opposing the cannabis reform but also mocking it. Last week, Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma said that the state’s medical marijuana makes it too easy to obtain...

Even though the House of Representatives approved the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, H.R. 3617 on April 1, sending it to Senate, the big cannabis battle isn’t over. Some say it has just begun. The MORE Act, which aim removes...